| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'At sixteen I discovered the work of Edgar Allan Poe. I happened to read first his biography, and the sadness of his l... | Alfred Hitchcock | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | [all plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read. I never was more delighted with any story. It ... | Katey Dickens | Feuillet Octave | La Petite Comtesse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best... | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Funeral Ode | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.' | George Austen | Francis Lathom | Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real Life | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled
Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which ... | John Aubrey | Inigo Jones | Stonehenge Restored | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings... | Jane Austen | Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' | Jane Austen | James Boswell | Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.' | George Austen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolu... | Jane Austen | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Jenkins | Ginx's Baby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti... | Margaret Oliphant | unknown | Peasant Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should... | Margaret Oliphant | George Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the s... | Madame de Montalembert | Montalembert | journals of Montalembert | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Anthony Trollope | Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I w... | Margaret Oliphant | Alexander William Kinglake | Eothen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...' | Margaret Oliphant | Major Lockhart | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not ... | Margaret Oliphant | Alexander Allardyce | City of Sunshine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me aft... | A.W. Kinglake | Margaret Oliphant | Mrs Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me aft... | A.W. Kinglake | Margaret Oliphant | Carita | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' | Margaret Oliphant | Alphonse Daudet | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in th... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.' | Margaret Oliphant | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.' | Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant | Heinrich Heine | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors... | Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Re... | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'. | Jane Austen | unknown | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Ann Radcliffe | [Gothic novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Regina Maria Roche | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Smith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Jane West | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | | Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Lennox | Female Quixote, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad... | Jane Austen | Eaton Barrett | The Heroine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richards... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", a... | Hester Thrale | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form |
| 1700-1799 | 'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''. | Humphry Repton | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's work... | Thomas Moore | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickl... | Dr Delany | Eusebius | Life of Constantine the Great | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickl... | Patrick Delany | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charle... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Wully Carruthers | Alan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Wully Carruthers | | [ancient and modern history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Wully Carruthers | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Susan Sibbald | Ann Radcliffe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | | [memoirs and history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | Anne Plumptre | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Alain Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Mary Wortley Montagu | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | | [magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | Tour of the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | [Madame] de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottagers of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | Hilaire Belloc | Hilaire Belloc | 'The Dons', 'The Poor of London' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | Walter de la Mare | Walter de la Mare | [five poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | William Henry Davies | William Henry Davies | 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Colyer, who rose to become a celebrated Unitarian minister, deliberately chose to dwell upon the moment when, ... | Robert Collyer | | The History of Whittington and his Cat | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'ad... | John Clare | Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Growing up in extreme poverty in East London, Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand "Iliad" and was dazzled: "What a revel... | Will Crooks | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one co... | John Clare | | John Bull Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament' | John Clare | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today | John Clare | John Foxe | Foxes Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | ' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the... | Puritans | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him... | John Clare | Izaak Walton | The Complete Angler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goeth... | John Clare | | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great de... | John Clare | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all othe... | the people of Auchterderran, Fife | | [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | The Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the ... | the people of Auchterderran, Fife | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | Thomas Chatterton | 'Poems of Chatterton' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost no... | the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot. | John Clare | | Moore's Almanack | Print: almanack |
| 1700-1799 | 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost no... | the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries | | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost no... | the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries | | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost no... | the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries | | [religious books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | William Collins Collins | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | John Ogilvie | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers' | the people of Wigtown | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscio... | John Clare | | 'the Song Solomon' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P... | John Clare | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consi... | John Clare | Thomas Gray | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making i... | John Clare | | The Human Heart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few p... | Charles Campbell | | [travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few p... | Charles Campbell | | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon' | John Clare | Josiah Conder | The Star in the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few p... | Charles Campbell | | [English classics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol]. | John Clare | John Hamilton Reynolds | The Garden of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love' | John Clare | | Epistle of St John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...]. | John Clare | | [playbill] | Print: Handbill, playbill |
| 1900-1945 | 'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had be... | Dorothy Burnham | Keats | 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' | Print: Unknown |
| | 'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had be... | Dorothy Burnham | Alfred Tennyson | More d'Arthur | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Read the News | John Yeoman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The political awakening of J.R. Clynes came when three old blind men paid him 3d a week to read the newspapers to th... | J.R. Clynes | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes. | John Yeoman | Hugh Kelly | The School for Wives | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captain... | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sne... | J.R. Clynes | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | after [a morning walk] I Read the News. | John Yeoman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the News | John Yeoman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".' | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".' | Joseph Mayett | | The Two Covenants | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book o... | John Gadbury | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that... | Joseph Mayett | follower of Joanna Southcott | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispen... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispen... | Joseph Mayett | | The Farmer's Fireside | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James Clre | James Clegg | Robert Nelson | Life of Dr. George Bull | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affect... | James Clegg | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books s... | Joseph Mayett | William Cobbett | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books s... | Joseph Mayett | Richard Carlile | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected ... | James Clegg | Richard Baxter | An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books s... | Joseph Mayett | T.J. Wooler | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | May 24th. My black mare fell down and threw me over her head, but God be praysed I got not the least harm. I rode a sl... | William Coe | | The Northampton Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and searc... | Isaac Archer | William Whately | The New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deli | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits ... | Isaac Archer | Richard Sibbes | The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits ... | Isaac Archer | Richard Alleine | Vindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of Godliness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book. | Margaret 'Peggy' Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M. | T.W.M. | Robert Bloomfield | The Farmers Boy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Complete transcript of Cowper's poem. | Anon | William Cowper | The Negro's complaint | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening [transcription of poem] James Montgomery. Weedon Nov 11th 1836. | | James Montgomery | Evening | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'Ther... | John Warburton | James Montgomery | The West Indies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Song Of Music | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | 'The Fickleness of Love' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Reflection at Sea'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | A Reflection at Sea | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | Weep Not for Those | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Stanzas'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]'Go, let me weep there's bliss in tears /...'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | Stanzas | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Perpetual Adoration'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem] | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | Perpetual Adoration | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Inspiration of Love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Meeting of the Waters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Tear | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Wintery Smile of Sorrow | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the infinity of god a Russian fragment translated by Mr Bowring' followed by transcript of text '-yes as a drop of wa... | Mary Groom | John Bowring | The Infinity Of God | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray' | Mary Groom | Thomas Gray | The Progress of Poesy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | Hohenlinden | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | The dirge of wallace | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'to mary' | Mary Groom | Bernard Barton | To Mary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'winter / bernard barton' | Mary Groom | Bernard Barton | Winter | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'the joy / addressed to a young friend / by bernard barton' | Mary Groom | Bernard Barton | The Joy /addressed to a young friend | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale. | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'friendship, love & truth / montgomery' | Mary Groom | James Montgomery | Friendship, love and truth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'stanzas. addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child. / montgomery' | Mary Groom | James Montgomery | Stanzas, Addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'poet's address to twilight / montgomery' | Mary Groom | James Montgomery | Poet's address to twilight | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significan... | Mary Groom | William Wordsworth | Song: she dwelt among th' untrodden ways | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the sailor / rogers' | Mary Groom | Samuel Rogers | The Sailor | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem] | Mary Groom | Samuel Rogers | An Italian Song | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem] | Mary Groom | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Coeur De Lion At The Bier Of His Father | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'lines on the death of a general officer in the east indies / ladies monthly museum' 'the muffled drums dull moan /...... | Mary Groom | anon | Lines On The Death Of A General Officer In The East Indies | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of part of text: 'From Professor Gellerts Moral Lessons / 'Faith in God, the sublime thought...' | B.A.T. Herbert | Professor Gellert | The Life of Professor Gellert; with a course of ... | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of Cowper's poem and ''By W. Cowper'. | B.A.T. Herbert | William Cowper | My Father! When I learned that thou was Dead | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the emerald ring' 'it is agem which [...]' [transcribes poem] 'le landon'. | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Laetitia Elizabeth Landon | The Emerald Ring | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those ... | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descendi... | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Robert Pollok | The course of time | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'. | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | James Montgomery | The world before the flood; a poem in ten cantos | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'stanzas for music by the ettrick shepherd' [transcribes 2 stanzas] 'my sweet little...' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | James Hogg | Stanzas for music | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [illustration of a Deer, followed by prose on hunting ascribed to] 'Library of Entertaining Knowledge' [part of album ... | E.E.R. | | Library of Entertaining Knowledge | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Highland Hospitality' 'I once resolved to leave London for a little time [...]' 'Hermit in London'. | E.E.R. | Felix MacDonogh | The Hermit in London; or Sketches in English Manne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Time' 'In Fancy's eye, what an extended span / ...' 'Clare' | E.E.R. | John Clare | 'Address to Time' from The Village Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...' | E.E.R. | John Clare | 'On Taste' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...' | E.E.R. | John Clare | 'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Life' 'Life thou art misery, or as such to me...' | E.E.R. | John Clare | 'Life' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sorrows for a Friend' 'O ye brown old oaks that spread the silent wood...' 'Clare' | E.E.R. | John Clare | 'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Regatta' [transcribes poem]'Ho! Hearty steeple chasers...' 'Blackwood's Mag 1830' | E.E.R. | | The Regatta | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Callimachus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Apollonius Rhodius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Quintus Calaber | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Thucydides | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristotle | Politics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristotle | Organon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Athenaeus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Terence | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucretius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Catullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Albius Tibullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sextus Propertius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Silius Italicus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Velleius Paterculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sallust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristophanes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Monk | Biography of Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | Seventh Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | The Alchemist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Album' 'Bernard Barton' 'The Warrior is[pleased?] when the war is won ....' | Mary Dugdale | Bernard Barton | 'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Albu | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Remember Me! By Bernard Barton Esq' ' "Remember me!" However brief / Those simple words... [transcribes text]' | Mary Dugdale | Bernard Barton | Remember Me! | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Farewell' 'Nay [shy] not from the word "Farewell"! / As if twer friendships knell ...' 'Bernard Barton' [transcribes ... | Mary Dugdale | Bernard Barton | Farewell | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Wish' 'Rogers' [transcribes text] 'Mine be a cot beside a hill...' | Mary Dugdale | Samuel Rogers | The Wish | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny' | Mary Dugdale | Thomas Campbell | The Last Man | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Change' 'We say that people ... [transcribes text]'LEL' | Mary Dugdale | Laetitia Elizabeth Landon | 'Change' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Pencil drawing of Sir John Moore by 'J.G.' followed by 'On the death of Sir John Moore' [transcribes text] 'Wolfe'. | Mary Dugdale | John Wolfe | The Burial of Sir John Moore | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early Rising' 'Just at the early peep of dawn...' [transcribes text] 'Clare'. | Mary Dugdale | John Clare | Early Rising | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If thou wast by mys side my love...' [transcript of poem] 'Hebers Journal' | Emma Bowly | Reginald Herber | Narrative of a journey through the upper Provinces | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Graves of a Household' [transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | F. D. Hemans | The Graves of a Household | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Ain Fire Side' 'O I hae seen great ones...'[transcript of text] 'from the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs' | Emma Bowly | Robert Hartley Cromek | Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with histo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extract from Byron's Monody on the death of Sheridan' [transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B. Sheridan | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sonnet on Chillon' [transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | Lord George Gordon Byron | 'Sonnet on Chillon' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Autumn departs- but still his mantles fold...' [transcript of text] 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles' | Emma Bowly | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Stranger! if e'er thine ardent...' [transcript of text] 'Lord of the Isles 14th Canto' | Emma Bowly | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To the Great Pyramid' 'Mountain of art!... [transcript of text] 'From the [Cheltenham] Chronicle Feb 7th 1833' | Emma Bowly | | Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucester Advertiser | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain'... 'Soft upon the summer air /...'[transcript of text] [NB there was a poet calle... | Emma Bowly | Charles Swain | Song of the Bells | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | John Milton | Sonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spent | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From The Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' ...'Harp of the North! the mighty hand... | Deveraux Bowly | | Cheltenham Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ''Annual Obituray for 1833' [Prose passage on the Death of Sir Walter Scott]' [transcript of text]. | Deveraux Bowly | | Annual Obituary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans' | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | The Homes of England | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text] | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | Evening Prayer at a Girl's School | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text] | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | The Wings of the Dove | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Dirge- Burn' 'The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast [transcribes alll of poem from l.10.]' | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | Winter: A Dirge | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Despondency---Burn' 'Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care...' [transcribes poem] | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | Despondency | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Prayer by Burn' 'O thou great Being! What thou art, /...' [transcribes poem] | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Burn. May 1812' 'The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning /...' [transcribes poem] | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | The Chevalier's Lament | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shaw's Monody' 'I who the tedious absence of a day /...' [transcribes poem from line 11] | B.A.T. Herbert | Cuthbert Shaw | Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady Who Died in C | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ode on Disapointment' 'Come, Disapointment, come! /...' [No author given] | Mary Groom | Henry Kirke White | On Disapointment | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ''Affecting picture of Constancy and Love' 'Yes! There are real mourners- I have seen /...' [transcription of 'The Chu... | Mary Groom | George Crabbe | The Church | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Where is the heart that is not bow'd /...' 'L.E.L' | Mary Groom | L.E. Landon | Love's Slaves | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Loves Last Lesson' 'Teach me if you can- Forgetfulness!' | Mary Groom | L.E. Landon | Love's Last Lesson | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem]. | Mary Groom | Rev. John Moultrie | Forget Thee? | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fairy Favours' [transcript of poem] 'Mrs Hemans'. | Mary Groom | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Fairy Favours | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Heaven was Cloudless' [transcript of poem, no author given] | Mary Groom | Bernard Barton | The Heaven was Cloudless | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sketch from Real Life / Alaric A. Watts' [transcript of poem] | Mary Groom | Alaric A. Watts | Sketch From Real Life | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Verses / Spencer' 'Too late I staid, forgive the crime; /...' [transcript of poem] | Mary Groom | William Robert Spencer | To The Lady Anne Hamilton | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Violets. a Sonnet / Bernard Barton' 'Beautiful are you in your lowliness/...[transcript of poem] | Mary Groom | Bernard Barton | Violets. A Sonnet | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it | James Clegg | William Law | A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection | Print: Book |
| | completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author... | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populace | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| | READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTION | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become mo... | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| | Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a chan... | I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper
| I.G. | Sampson Perry | An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper
| I.G. | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine
| I.G. | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine
| I.G. | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I came home from the office where I worked, I went straight to my room, took out the cheap edition of "Tales Gro... | Alfred Hitchcock | Edgar Allan Poe | Tales Arabesque and Grotesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany
| I.G. | Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-Holstein | Germany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I still remember my feelings when I finished "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". I was afraid, but this fear made me dis... | Alfred Hitchcock | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume. | I.G. | Charles Rollin | Ancient History of the Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production
| I.G. | Robert Southey | Life of Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds ... | Alfred Hitchcock | | Motion Picture Daily | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds ... | Alfred Hitchcock | | Motion Picture Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds ... | Alfred Hitchcock | | Cinematograph Lantern Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds ... | Alfred Hitchcock | | The Bioscope | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite... | Alfred Hitchcock | Gustav Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make... | Alfred Hitchcock | Marie Corelli | The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the spring of 1826, after getting through Valpy's Delectus, and a part of Stewart's "Cornelius Nepos, " and also a... | Thomas Cooper | Caesar | Commentaries On The Gallic War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..." | Thomas Cooper | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..." | Thomas Cooper | Anacreon | Odes of Anacreon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad.... | Thomas Cooper | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'... | Thomas Cooper | Voltaire | Charles the Twelfth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois G... | Thomas Cooper | Moliere | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione... So we read together part one of ... | Thomas Cooper | Goldoni | Comedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue. | Thomas Cooper | Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took c... | Thomas Cooper | Herder | [volume of tales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took c... | Thomas Cooper | Lessing | [volume of tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | there is a leading article in the "Times" about New Zealand | Albert Battiscombe | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | I am reading "Maunders Treasury of Geography" a very entertaining work. | Albert Battiscombe | Samuel Maunder | The Treasury of Geography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry... | Albert Battiscombe | Charles Tomlinson | Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry... | Albert Battiscombe | John Herschel | A preliminary discourse on the study of Natural Ph | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry... | Albert Battiscombe | Robert Ellis | The Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of the | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles and Mary Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] | Albert Battiscombe | Samuel Maunder | The Treasury of Geography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Benjamin Disraeli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] | Albert Battiscombe | Benjamin Thompson | Philosophical Papers: being a collection of memoir | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt) | Albert Battiscombe | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt) | Albert Battiscombe | Leigh Hunt | The Court Servant | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Have just finished "Rory O'More" by Samuel Lover | Albert Battiscombe | Samuel Lover | Rory O'More | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Read "Nathalie" by Julia Kavanagh | Albert Battiscombe | Julia Kavanagh | Nathalie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her id... | Mary Thomas | Alfred Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I find by the newspapers this morning that Dr Wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation ... | Edward Lincoln | | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | I find by the news papers this morning that dr wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation... | Edward Lincoln | Daniel (Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham) Finch | The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr Whiston | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Charles was reading Hans Andersen: I wanted the book, asked for it, fussed for it, and finally broke into tears.' | Charles Thomas | Hans Christian Anderson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to r... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Bible (Old Testament), the | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope.... | Gertrude Savile | David Lewis | Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some l... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | A Child's History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles | Gertrude Savile | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Dr Brewer | Guide to Science | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11... | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Rosy's Voyage Around the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11. | Gertrude Savile | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of the Kings of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Little Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking Glass | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old... | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Haywood | Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Li... | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love') | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or ... | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Killigrew | Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late. | Gertrude Savile | James Shirley | The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures.... | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's... | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef... | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read after supper the contempt of the clergy. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Sedley | The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'.... | Gertrude Savile | Nathaniel Lee | Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his... | Gertrude Savile | Nathaniel Lee | Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor]. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef... | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt]. | Gertrude Savile | Aphra Behn | All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Each... | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'. | Gertrude Savile | John Eachard | The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures. | Barbara Savile | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending thei... | Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour | | Church of England burial service | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10. | Gertrude Savile | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of A Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Savil... | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Wotton | The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and His | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | William Shakespeare | Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Beckingham | The Life of Mr Richard Savage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's. | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Denham | The Sophy OR Poems and Translations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's. | Gertrude Savile | Martin Luther | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by ... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Vanbrugh | A Journey to London, being part of a comedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone. | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggars Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extre... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back wit... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 w... | Gertrude Savile | John Gay | The Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel... | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Cons... | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) Richard Steele | The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the 'Universal Passion' | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. H... | Gertrude Savile | Edward Young | The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Han... | Gertrude Savile | | The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc. | Gertrude Savile | 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' | Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The British Recluse'. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Haywood | The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jonathan Swift | Essay on the Fates of Clergymen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Prude'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Vindication | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'. | Gertrude Savile | Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] | The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate". | Gertrude Savile | Jean Regnauld de Segrais | Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | Jean Regnauld de Segrais | Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Conyers Middleton | Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | | [A Novell] OR [A Novel] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the st... | Gertrude Savile | | 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy' | Manuscript: Codex |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mrs Winn told us our fortunes out of the Almanick, some things to me very strange... | (Mrs) Winn | | 'Almanack' OR 'Almanick' | Print: Book, almanack |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil... | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!... | Gertrude Savile | 'Young Nobleman' | Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens... | Gertrude Savile | 'Young Nobleman' | Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: A... | Gertrude Savile | Elijah Fenton | Mariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12. | Gertrude Savile | Penelope Aubin | The Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'. | Gertrude Savile | Eliza Fowler Haywood | The Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Made an end of 'Gil Blas'. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls. | Gertrude Savile | Philip Massinger | The Very Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in ... | Gertrude Savile | Nicholas Rowe | The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers | The Rehearsal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Some of Dr Clark's paraphras. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'. | Gertrude Savile | John Dryden | All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours. | Gertrude Savile | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt. | Gertrude Savile | Samuel Clarke | A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Thomas Jevon | The Devil of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Abraham Cowley | The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11. | Gertrude Savile | George Stanhope | Twelve Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Bio... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Robert Dodsley | The Economy of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | | The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished Peveril of the Peak. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The story itself was an allegory, and was too subtle for us, but it is impossible to describe the endless pleasure gi... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Story without an End | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture t... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Safe Compass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Peep of the Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King... | Tom Thomas | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some three or four times during the reading of the French play...Charles ... neatly, but with becoming hesitation, sp... | Charles Thomas | | [French play] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Ric... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Little Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover a... | Alexander Kinglake | Margaret Oliphant | The Lover and his Lass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs... | Margaret Oliphant | George MacDonald | David Elginbrod | Manuscript: MS of a book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | John Morley | Life of George Eliot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of the Life of George Eliot | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I... | Margaret Oliphant | Laurence Oliphant | Land of Gilead, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'. | Margaret Oliphant | | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article o... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and wh... | William Ewart Gladstone | Margaret Oliphant | Makers of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and ... | Margaret Oliphant | A.K.H. Boyd | Taking in Sail | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I th... | Margaret Oliphant | J.M. Barrie | Auld Licht Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'. My remembrance of what y... | A.W. Kinglake | Margaret Oliphant | The Duke's Daughter | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful... | A.W. Kinglake | Margaret Oliphant | In Trust | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun ... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture character... | William Ewart Gladstone | Margaret Oliphant | Jerusalem: Its History and Hope | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chal... | Margaret Oliphant | | [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a litt... | Margaret Oliphant | A.P. Stanley | A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath -... | Margaret Oliphant | Andrew Lang | Life of Lockhart | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book |
| 1850-1899 | I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one m... | Margaret Oliphant | Marie Corelli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping ... | Annie Coghill | | Crossing the Bar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The Iris came this morning, in it there was the following article: at Paris there is proposals for publishing by subsc... | Joseph Hunter | | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gent... | Joseph Hunter | | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opi... | Joseph Hunter | | Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hy... | Joseph Hunter | | 'An old Hymn Book' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries' | Joseph Hunter | William Seward | Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly o | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several... | Joseph Hunter | Mark Noble | A Genealogical History of the Present Royal Famili | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Looked at Ainsworth's dictionary for the derivation of all the Christian names; Joseph is derived from the Hebrew of I... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Ainsworth | Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had read in Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men" a caution not to depend upon the Muses for substantial support ... he i... | John Teer | William Cobbett | Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young W | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of th... | Charles Manby Smith | William Cobbett | A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems containing a DAY in SPRING, and other detached pieces, with four love... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Richard Westall | A Day in Spring, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, an... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Mitford | The History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Let us talk of Eugenie and Mathilde. It saddened but did not make me cry. I foresaw it would end like a Turk, nay I am... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie-Emilie, Comtesse de Flahaut Adelaide | Eugenie et Mathilde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and insert... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Volume annotated in Dawson's own hand. Includes correction to Preface and a contents list. | John Dawson | Marquis of Chatele, Paul Hay | The Politics of France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Manuscript list of 'The Proverbs & c in this Book' (in Dawson's hand) has been bound into the rear of the book. | John Dawson | Nathan Bailey | Universal Etymological Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library. | John Dawson | William Camden | Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Gre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two volumes bound together by Dawson and including his 'The Pages Where the affairs in this Book begin for 1723' and '... | John Dawson | | The Historical Register | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accurate transcript of complete text, probably from The Improvisatrice. | member of Carey/Maingay group | Laetitia Landon | When Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows? | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcript of poem partially obscured by later use of the manuscript as a scrapbook. Probably copied from The Improvis... | member of Carey/Maingay group | Laetitia Landon | The Soldier's Grave | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | I never framed a wish or formed a plan that flattered mewith hopes of earthly bliss. But thou wert there. [rewriting o... | member of Carey/Maingay group | William Cowper | The Task, Book IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | To Jane Whene'er I see those smiling eyes... [the 'transcript' does not follow the original to the letter] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Whene'er I see Those Smiling Eyes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From Rokeby' 'The tear that down childhood's cheek...' [4lines] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Walter Scott | Rokeby | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extract from Murphy's Grecian Daughter' 'Filial Affection' | member of Carey/Maingay group | Arthur Murphy | The Grecian Daughter | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most h... | Sophia | Mary Masters | To Marinda at Parting | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I knew, I knew it could not last...' [transcript (exact) of lines 277-294] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh! Had wenever met/...' [transcript of lines 384-387] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | Allgemeine Naturgeschichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Zeitschrift fur speculative Physik | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Walter Scott | Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Walter Scott | Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | Die Symbolik des Traumes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Walter Scott | Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Scougal | The Life of God in the Soul of Man OR The Nature a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Walter Scott | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Scudamore | A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Amory | The Life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Augustus Zwick | Calmuc Tartary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edwin Atherstone | The Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Pa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John and Michael Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pietro Metastasio | Opere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Baxter | Reliquiae Baxteriana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Leighton | The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop o | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | La danse des morts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Vermischte Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Declaration of Principles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Herder | Verstand und Erfahrung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee | The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers, a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Haslam | Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity, a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Samouelle | The Entomologist's Useful Compendium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Plays [various] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Beaumont | Some Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry More | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Oliver Cromwell | His Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Tindal | The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borough of Evesham | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James MacPherson | The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve books | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Adam Weishaupt | Pythagoras | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Hewitt | [conjecture] Nine Select Sermons | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ekkehart | De prima expeditione Attilae | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Plays | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee | The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Dunbar | The Poems of William Dunbar | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugh Farmer | A Dissertation on Miracles | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | A New Version of the Psalms of David | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rachel Baker | Remarkable Sermons of Rachel Baker and pious ejaculations | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Aristaenetus | Epistolae graecae | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Ludwig Tieck | Phantasus | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty | Gedichte | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Thomas Stanley Hornby | Childhood (?) | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Paul de Rapin-Thoyras | The History of England | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Rimius | A Candid Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Herrnhunters | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Daniel Sennert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Giovanni Boccaccio | Opere (vols I-IV (of 6)) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Vermischte Schriften (vols I-III (of 4)) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Apocalypsis graece Vol II (of 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Dante Alighieri | [Divina Commedia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johannes Cocceius | Opera omnia theologica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Chillingworth | The Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Chillingworth | The Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gilbert Burnet | The History of the Reformation of the Church of En | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Peter Brougham | A Speech on the Present State of the Law of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Vermischte Schriften (vol II (of 4)) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Donne | LXXX Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Donne | LXXX Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Einleitung in das Neue Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Einleitung in das Neue Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christopher Harvey | The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christopher Harvey | The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Herbert | The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Herbert | The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Abraham Cowley | The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Dallison | The Royalist's Defence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Bowker Ash | Adbaston: or Days of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Amory | The Life of John Buncle, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Palingenesien von Jean Paul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Museum von Jean Paul | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Martin Luther | Samptliche Schrifften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | Benjamin the Waggoner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of Pl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christoph Friedrich Nicolai | Ueber meine gelehrte Bildung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Blaise Pascal | Les Provinciales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gometius Pereira | Antoniana margarita, opus nempe physicis medicis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Adam Weishaupt | Ueber Wahrheit und sittliche Vollkommenheit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus | Ueber die Grunde der menschlichen Erkentniss und der nat?rlichen Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Xenophon | Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the defence o | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann | Geschichte der Philosophie | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kasper Lodewijk Valckenaer | Diatribe de Aristobulo Judaeo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Henry Vane the Younger | A Healing Question Propounded and Resolved | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Vaughan | The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francois Rabelais | The Works of Francis Rabelais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Walter Raleigh | The History of the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Vincent | The Greek Verb Analysed. An Hypothesis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Randolph | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire | A Treatise on Toleration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gerardus Joannes Vossius | Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Gibbon Wakefield | A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australia | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Walker | A Dictionary of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Relly | The Believer's Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wall | A Conference between Two Men that had Doubts about Infant-Baptism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Benn Walsh | On the Present Balance of Parties in the State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Benn Walsh | Popular Opinions on Parliamentary Reform | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Reynolds | The Triumphes of God's Revenge against the Cryinge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jacob Rhenferd | Opera philologica, dissertationibus exquisitissimi argumenti constantia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Daniel Waterland | The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Jean Pauls Geist oder Chrestomathie der vorzuglich | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Daniel Waterland | A Vindication of Christ's Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | Das Kampaner Thal oder uber die Unsterblichkeit de | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Daniel Sandford | The Remains of the Late Right Reverend Daniel Sandford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Whitaker | The Origin of Arianism Disclosed | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jacopo Sannazaro | Jacobi Sannazarii, patricii neapolitani, opera | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Carl Von Savigny | Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gilbert White | The Works, in Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joannes Scapula | Joan. Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-Latinum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Whitfield | A Discourse of Liberty of Conscience... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Darlegung des wahren Verhaltnisses der Naturphilosphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christoph Martin Wieland | Comische Erzahlungen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Denkmal der Schrift von den gottlichen Dingen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Einleitung zu seinem Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Philosophie und Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Anderson | The Works of the British Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Anderson | The Works of the British Poets | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Karl Leonhard Reinhold | Versuch einer neueren Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsverm? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christoph Martin Wieland | Wielands Neueste Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Publius Virgilius Maro | Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | August Wilhelm Rehberg | Ueber das Verhaltniss der Metaphysik zu der Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Bateman | A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Berkeley | Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Holy Bible | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Apocryphal New Testament | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Walter Birch | A Sermon on the Prevalence of Infidelity and Enthusiasm | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Dyer | Academic Unity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Dyer | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel [John] Hutchinson | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Parr | A spital sermon preached at Christ Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Strype | The History of the Life and Acts of the most Reverend Father in God | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Abraham Parsons | Travels in Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise". | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Strype | Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Strype | Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Caspar Suicerus | Joh. Caspari Suiceri...Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Giuseppe Luca Pasini | Vocabolario Italiano-Latino per uso degli studiosi | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christian Franz Paullini | Christiani Francisci Paullini disquisitio curiosa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Pearson | An Exposition of the Creed | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | True Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De cultu et amore Dei | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Percival | An Account of the Island of Ceylon | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Isaac Taylor | Natural History of Enthusiasm | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) | Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alaric Alexander Watts | Poetical Sketches | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Petvin | Letters Concerning Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Esaias Tegner | Die Frithiofs-Sage | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lord Alfred Tennyson | Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Saint Teresa | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Nicolaus Tetens | Philosophische Versuche | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Gaisford | Poetae Minores Graeci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jean de Thevenot | The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir John Pringle | Observations on the Diseases of the Army | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Pringle | African Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Ludwig Tieck | The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bryan Waller Procter | Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Pepys | Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Taylor | An Essay on Money | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | The Worthy Communicant, a discourse on the nature, effects and blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | The Worthy Communicant, a discourse on the nature, effects and blessings consquent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plotinus Plotinus | Plotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei operum philosophie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Proclus Proclus | The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Tennyson | Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces, by Charles Tennyson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Aulus Persius Flaccus | Auli Persi Flacci Satirarum liber | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Regnum animale anatomice, physice et philosophice | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dar... | Elizabeth Barrett | St John Chrysostom | Commentary on the Ephesians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read as I have done lately, not for the pleasure of thinking: but for the comfort of not thinking. | Elizabeth Barrett | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they shoul... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Very busy today. Reading Aeschylus & learning the verb τύπτω. | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been ma... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cot... | William Wordsworth | | Annual Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also... | William Wordsworth | | Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been ma... | Elizabeth Barrett | Horne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s s... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | | [prayers] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s s... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | John Russell | [Speech on Reform] | |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ann Radcliffe | Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ann Radcliffe | Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lamartine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lamartine | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De... | William Wordsworth | James Beattie | Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (179... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Beddoes | Domiciliary Verses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which ... | William Wordsworth | John Bell | Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of... | William Wordsworth | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very un... | Elizabeth | Zenophon [Xenophon] | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Callimachus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Anthologia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Isocrates | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonardo Da Vinci | [Painting] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " Thi... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Giovanni Boccaccio | Il Decamerone | Print: Book |
| | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Susan Ferrier | Destiny | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Susan Ferrier | The Inheritance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Al... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap... | Elizabeth Barrett | Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "Wh... | William Wordsworth | William Lisle Bowles | Fourteen Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 7 March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] remarked that 'I am now reading the Fool of Quality which amuses me exceedingl... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Brooke | The Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day]. | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Hans Christian Andersen | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my ti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Good Words for the Young | Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Shelley | The Last Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion.... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Dark Journey | Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performa... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cebes | Dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Henry Milner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Isabella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Eve of St Agnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theophrastus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | Goldoni | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | Goldoni | Pamela Maritata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all th... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...... | Barnholt Thomas | | Bible, The (Book of Esther) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Brunton | Self Control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Beverley | Letter to the Archbishop of York | |
| 1800-1849 | I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Beverley | Tombs of the Prophets | |
| 1800-1849 | I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dr Card | Discourse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Card | Sermon on the Athanasian Creed | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grat... | Elizabeth Barrett | Channing | On the importance & means of a national Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The question of conscience once arose when mother was reading "Jessica's First Prayer" aloud to Barnholt and me.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Jessica's First Prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekl... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Lloyd's Weekly | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Molly Vivian | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Molly Vivian | Richard Harris Barham | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Molly Vivian | | The Misadventures at Margate | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Charles...seized the list [of prayers for the redemption of sinners] hopefully, and hooted with delight when he found... | Charles Thomas | Aunt Lizzie | Persons for Whom our Prayers are Requested | Print: Serial / periodical, Religious magazine with blank pages for individual prayers |
| 1850-1899 | 'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Narrow Way | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired o... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many mo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Robert Michael Ballantyne | The Iron Horse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Cassell's Family Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide] I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia &... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Iphigenia in Aulide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gregory | Apologetick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hippolytus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Supplices | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Choephori | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Eumenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire.... | Elizabeth Barrett | Joseph Clarke | Sacred Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Elizabeth Barrett | Synesius | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gregory | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Gregory | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Synesius | Poems | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Uriah Plant, a wheelwright's son, affirmed that "My uncertainty about the truth of religion not only increased my sen... | Uriah Plant | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | Friedrich Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say ... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason f... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Gladstone | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Laurence Sterne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare:
"What pleased me most ... | Joseph Barker | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | James Thomson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they mor... | Joseph Barker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | George Gordon Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | Isaac Newton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and ... | Samuel Westcott Tilke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou... | Thomas Jones | Farell Lee Bevan | Peep of Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou... | Thomas Jones | James Bruce | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou... | Thomas Jones | Samuel Baker | [Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou... | Thomas Jones | Frank Buckland | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Thomas Babington MacAulay | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Josephus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Plutarch | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Samuel Pepys | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | father of Thomas Jones | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | father of Thomas Jones | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "f... | John Johnson | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | Alfred Marshall | Principles of Economics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | | [history and philosophy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and gre... | Edwin Muir | | Great Thoughts | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | James Boswell | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | George Henry Lewes | History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from... | Richard Pyke | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge an... | Thomas Frost | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge an... | Thomas Frost | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Charles de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu | The Persian Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Thomas Second Lord Lyttelton | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orot... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Patrick Brydone | A Tour through Siciliy and Malta in a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orot... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[oro... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Moore | Travels in France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Miguel de Cervantes Savedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Alain Rene Le Sage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at... | William Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swi... | William Wordsworth | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swi... | William Wordsworth | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arriv... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Osorio | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Car... | William Wordsworth | William Collins | An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | "On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating tha... | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | "On 21 March 1796, [Wordsworth] told [William] Mathews that D[orothy] W[ordsworth] 'has already gone through half of D... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Enrico Caterina Davila | Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia ... nella quale si contegnono le operationi di quattro re, Francesco II., Carlo IX., Henrico III. e Henrico IV. cognominato il Grande | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | "As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwa... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bryan Edwards | The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend [ii 89], 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Br... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Hearne | A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, Undertaken ... for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, etc. in the Years 1769-1772 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon readin... | William Wordsworth | Euclid | Elements I-IV, VI | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-g... | William | John Bernard Farish | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-g... | Charles Farish | John Bernard Farish | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today ... | William Wordsworth | John Foxe | Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by... | William Wordsworth | | Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | "'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to ... | William Wordsworth | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goeth... | William Wordsworth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of ... | William Wordsworth | Paul Hentzner | A Journey into England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Paul Hentzner | A Journey into England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..." | William Wordsworth | Robert Heron | Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity ... | Robert Lowery | | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity ... | Robert Lowery | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity ... | Robert Lowery | | [imaginative literature] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | Virgil | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | [the great poets] | | Print: Unknown |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | | [classic histories] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | | [voyages] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ... | Samuel Bamford | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord Chesterfield | Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | | T.P. and Cassell's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Elinor Glyn | The Career of Catherine Bush | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | John Donne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | James Joyce | Finnegan's Wake | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a ... | V.W. Garratt | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco... | V.W. Garratt | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco... | V.W. Garratt | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that beco... | V.W. Garratt | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Longinus | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's ... | V.W. Garratt | Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Tho... | Ben Tillett | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for ... | Edmund Stonelake | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or... | James Keir Hardie | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Richard Steele | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Alexander Pope | 'Ode on Solitude' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | George Payne | Elements of Mental and Moral Science | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Thomas Brown | Moral Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Richard Whateley | Logic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its visi... | F.W. Jowett | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I t... | Robert Blatchford | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft:
James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertiseme... | James James | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in a trial for highway robbery
William Aldrich: "on the 23rd of June, at half past ten at night, ... | William Aldrich | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial of Sarah Evans for murder
Thomas Aris: "The first thing I heard of the child being drown... | Thomas Aris | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods:
Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle o... | Thomas Davies | | Morning Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft:
Thomas Jones: "reading the 'Daily Advertiser' and finding they were adver... | Thomas Jones | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft:
Benjamin Bunn: "I am a pawnbroker and live in Houndsditch... I was readin... | Thomas Jones | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft:
Samuel Spencer: "The next day about 11 o'clock I read in the 'Advertiser'... | Samuel Spencer | | Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
Robert Alexander: "[the prisoner] brought a saw t... | Robert Alexander | | Public Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been loo... | John Wyn | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been loo... | John Wyn | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft:
George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I re... | George Martin | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
Charles Clark: "On the 18th of November, in the f... | Charles Clark | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing:
Thomas Burch: "On Monday morning the 7th of July, the prisoner brough... | Thomas Burch | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for fraud:
Thomas Douglas: "I saw this advertisement in the Daily Advertiser of the 1st ... | Thomas Douglas | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Gravat: "I am in the news business; my son delivered me the watch-c... | Gravat | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Dobree: "I am a pawnbroker: I took in this property of a witness who i... | Joseph Dobree | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
John Monk: "I have for some years past supported myself by thieving... Wai... | John Monk | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Flint: "...in consequence of a handbill that I received I had the prison... | Mary Flint | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods:
Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-s... | Henry Ewer | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in t... | James Gideon | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for shoplifting:
Elias Mordecai: "I set my Basket one Day upon a post, and saw Moses sho... | Elias Mordecai | | Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Josiah Howard: The 19th of May I and three journeyman-packers left work and c... | Josiah Howard | | Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery:
"When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked ... | Alexander Bourk | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James Palace: "A night or two after I read in the Advertiser a watc... | James Palace | | Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods:
Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the... | Robert Daniel Liddell | | | Print: Handbill, playbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel:
William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] s... | William Smith | | Temple of Reason | |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel:
Prisoner questions witness Raven
Q: P... | Henry Baldwin Raven | | The Republican | |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a ... | William Masters | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26t... | John Brooks | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
William Moreland: "I saw the handbill that had been circulated, advertising... | William Moreland | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Allen: "I took the prisoners that night in Kingsland-road... in the morning a... | Allen | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; ... | Thomas Brown | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | "[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... " | Dorothy Wordsworth | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted ... | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | [odes] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..." | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | "[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned t... | William Wordsworth | Isaac Newton | Opticks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly ... | William Wordsworth | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days aft... | Henry Butt | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Aldus: "I am a servant to Mr Salkeld; I produce four table-cloths, an... | William Aldus | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Rebecca Johnson: "I began to wash a few things after dinner, and soon after s... | Anthony Whitewood | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Samuel Davis: [in reply to question about length of time he spent in the wat... | Samuel Davies | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
John Osrorne: "I know Wood, he came to my house on the 29th of July..... | John Osrorne | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Elizabeth Baglee: "I read in a newspaper of the robbery, a day or two... | Elizabeth Baglee | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for robbery:
James John Conolly: "I am a policeman, I apprehended the prisoner Wright on... | Robert Wright | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
James Robertson: "I keep a public house in Stanhope-street, Clare market -the... | Anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
James Collins: "I was sitting near the bar reading the newspaper, when I turn... | James Collins | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the priso... | Robert Price | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the priso... | Joseph Pead | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James John Streath: "On the 18th of October last this man watched m... | Frederick Constable | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing:
John Everhard Berckemyer: "On the 11th of October, about ten o'clock,... | John Everard Berckemyer | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, playbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for assault:
Charles Bradfield: "In the forenoon of Saturday, 4th of October, I went int... | Charles Bradfield | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for coining:
"Arthur Cross deposed, that he was reading the newspaper at the Black RAven... | Arthur Cross | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silve... | Isaac Reeve | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Feling: "I was at the Lion in the Wood reading the newspaper, there was Esq; ... | Abraham Feling | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Everill knew John White had been charged with stealing a trunk as it was read... | Edward Everill | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Sharpling: "last Thursday was with [the prisoner] between four and ... | Sharpling | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Q: "Do you know when Cox was taken up?"
Taylor: "I saw it in the newspaper" | John Taylor | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of No... | George Watson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspa... | Henry Barnard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspa... | Henry Barnard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my... | John Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Elizabeth Marlow: "In the morning of the 23rd I was looking into the newspape... | Elizabeth Marlow | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
James Harrison: "I know both prisoners. On the 7th of September, I was in ... | James Harrison | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading ... | George Todd | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for coining:
John Bailey: "I am an engraver in Fleet-market. I saw the prisoner, as well... | John Bailey | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for stealing:
John Jackson: "I came up by coach, I got down at the White Horse Cellar in... | John Jackson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Joseph Jackson: "I come on account of recollecting a circumstance in an ad... | Joseph Jackson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for stealing:
William Watson: "...my house was robbed on the 17th of March... I told my ... | William Watson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Alexander Jack: "...we went to another house a little further on, and there w... | Anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for shoplifting:
Walter English: "on the 15th of January last, in the morning, I was in ... | Walter English | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Defence of prisoner in his trial for theft
James Lewis: "...we went to the Gun, and he asked me to go in; the gentl... | James Lewis | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Keturah Dyts (wife of landlord): "...on the 15th of August my husband was tak... | Robert Mills | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Joshua Parish: "I know the middle man (Payne); it is near three weeks ago si... | Joshua Parish | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Q: "When did you hear of Sadi's death, madam?"
Sullivan: "I really cannot te... | Sullivan | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for robbery:
Jane Toosey swore to the court that she read about this crime in the newspa... | Jane Toosey | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Esther Radford: [Bevan picks up parcel in Pond-street and takes it to Radford... | Esther Radford | | Gazetteer and Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Joseph Lecree: "...a card was left for me to go to Ibberson's Coffee-house,... | Henry Griffin | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | This trial concerned with the manner in which William Hudson read the newspaper (or several) to other customers at the... | William Hudson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Elizabeth Kinsey, describing actions of prisoner William Mortimer while in ta... | William Mortimer | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Rose: "I was reading in the newspaper some time after, and saw a person ... | Mary Rose | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Tuck: "Last Saturday, about three o'clock, the prisoner was in my parl... | John Simmonds | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for embezzlement:
Anthony Parkin: "he went on Saturday morning to a public house, the si... | John Norton | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statements in trial for forgery:
Eleanor Castle: "The very day he was taken up, he read the paper at our ho... | Edward Lovell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
James Streeter: "...says I, Mich, how did you come by this, I am afraid you ... | James Streeter | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Q: "How came Mrs Carey to read the almanack?"
Norris: "She was rea... | Carey | | | Print: Broadsheet, Poster, Almanack |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Olley: "On Thursday the 7th of May, about ten in the morning, I was s... | William Olley | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Lench: "On Saturday the 7th of May, between twelve and one, I was readin... | John Lench | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Watts: "...there was a gentleman in the house reading a newspaper and ... | Anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Robinson: "I was reading the newspaper..." | James Robinson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Wiffin: "On the 1st of August, I was reading the newspaper at the Northu... | John Wiffin | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Vaughan: "I got up in the morning to breakfast along with the man's... | Thomas Vaughan | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for forgery:
Robert Eddington: "we occasionally read the newspaper, I suppose we sat for... | Robert Eddington | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Charles Fenn: "I went into Mrs Bow's public house, the sign of the Wheat-shea... | Charles Fenn | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Mr Hanley: "About eleven o'clock it rained very hard. I stopped at the public... | Hanley | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Brown: "I was going to the West India Dock, I had a newspaper in my handin... | William Brown | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Samuel Leigh: "I lodge at the Elephant and Castle, Holborn. On the 12th of Oc... | Samuel Leigh | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
William de Roach: "In the middle of August I was in P... | John Pollard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen... | John Pollard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
William Pocock: "On the night of the 8th of January I was at the King's Head.... | William Pocock | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for murder:
Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of hi... | Henry Bracken | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for deception/forgery:
John Dougan: "I was going to the West Indies, in pursuance of tha... | Anthony McKenrott | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Michael McNally: "Jack brought a newspaper to me, and read a statement that C... | John (Jack) Winter | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for burglary:
Ralph Hope: "[Spencer] was apprehended and committed for examination. In a... | Ralph Hope | | Morning Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank m... | George Nash | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber... | William Wordsworth | Pliny | Epistolarum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Ita... | William Wordsworth | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading C... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2." | William Wordsworth | William Coxe | Lettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'etat politique, civil, et naturel de la Suisse; traduits de l'Anglaise, et augmentees des observations faites dans le meme pays par le traducteur | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degr... | William Wordsworth | George Redpath | The Border History of England and Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have latel... | Thomas Poole | Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere | An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere | An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the Dangers to Which I have been Exposed, since the 31st of May, 1793. With historical memorandums. By Jean-Baptiste Louvet, one of the representatives proscribed in 1793. Now President of the National Convention. | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... " | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | The Robbers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Ma... | William Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our ... | William Wordsworth | Lawrence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our ... | William Wordsworth | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bli... | William Wordsworth | | Weekly Entertainer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... " | William Wordsworth | Uvedale Price | Essay on the Picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that ... | Mary Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Philip Massinger | Bashful Lover, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a for... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Richard Payne Knight | An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter ar... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Lady Beaumont | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil OEconomy and Character of the Society of Friends. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... ' | William Wordsworth | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book Th... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Fox | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Gray | Life and Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been... | William Wordsworth | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have recei... | William Wordsworth | Hutchinson | Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have recei... | Dorothy Wordsworth | D. Thiebault | Anecdotes of Frederick II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and p... | Wordsworth Family | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been o... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Dunham Whitaker | History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's]... | William Wordsworth | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former groc... | [a grocer] Anon | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some futu... | William Wordsworth | Symmonds | Life of John Milton, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | White Doe of Rylstone, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I la... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | Human Laws best supported by the Gospel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... ' | William Wordsworth | Walter Scott | Marmion | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which w... | William Wordsworth | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a mo... | William Wordsworth | Andrew Bell | Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, An | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...' | William Wordsworth | Gilbert White | Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.' | William Wordsworth | Thomas Dunham Whitaker | History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Honour of Clitheroe, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it ... | William Wordsworth | Grave | The History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the North Riding of Yorkshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach m... | Wordsworth Family | Francis Wrangham | Gospel best promulgated in National Schools, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is besi... | Thomas De Quincey | unknown | [Greek book] | Print: BookUnknown |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterd... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him:
"When your Frien... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, regarding editing of The Convention of Cintra: 'I have alluded to the blasphe... | William Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey | [Italian deputies] Anon | [address to Buonaparte] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to expre... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Don Pedro Cevallos | Exposition of the Arts and Machinations which led to the Usurpation of the Crown of Spain ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to expre... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Memoir of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John... | William Wordsworth | unknown | [newpapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ... found Miss [Sara] Hutchinson reading Coleridge's Christabel to Johnny [Wordsworth] - She was tired, so I read t... | Sara Hutchinson and Dorothy Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'Thi... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe;... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | White Doe of Rylstone, The | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe;... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate f... | William Wordsworth | unknown | [magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery:
'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what... | | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here I am reading Virgil?s delightful Georgics for the first time. They really attune perfectly well with the plains... | Edward Fitzgerald | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary wor... | Edward Fitzgerald | Arthur Penryn Stanley | Life of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of Rugby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary wor... | Edward Fitzgerald | Edmund Burke | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | Juvenal | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | John Wesley | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | Horace Walpole | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some one by chance read out to me the other day at the seaside your account of poor old Naseby Village from Cromwell,... | Edward | Charles Knight | Half Hours with the Best Authors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of the Court of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | anon | Edward Lloyd | [various titles published by Lloyd] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister:
"'We've always had good health. We can all read'.... | anon | | Garden of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker:
"One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the roo... | anon | | History of England | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs h... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometim... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I... | anon | Oliver Goldsmith | Edwin and Angelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John':
"From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son:
"My youn... | anon | | | Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper:
"The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my fami... | anon | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | Examiner | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | Daily News | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | various | Print: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a regular scavager:
"No, I can't say I was sorry when I was forced to be idle that way, tha... | Bill | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews an "aristocratic" crossing sweeper of Cavendish-square:
"There was the Earl of Gainsborough... | Billy ? | | | Print: religious tract |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... | | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... | | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... | | | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, novels |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; ... | Mary | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; ... | Mary ? | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; ... | Mary | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; ... | Mary | | | Print: Book, story books |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a juvenile crossing sweeper:
"I can read and write -oh, yes, I mean read and write well -re... | Jack | | London Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my ... | anon | | Family Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader':
"I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years... | anon | | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night some one would now and then read hymns, out of ... | anon | | | Print: Book, religious tracts sold in streets containing hymns |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Di... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Di... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | Watts | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | John Wesley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | religious magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | Clark | Lives of Pirates | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library? |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | Tales of Shipwrecks | Print: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I thought I should make my fortune in London... | anon | | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | | Newgate Calendar | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Thomas Paine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Volney | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | George Jacob Holyoake | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 'The Lotus Eaters' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Ode to the West Wind' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 'Atalanta in Calydon' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Wiliam Wordsworth | 'The Solitary Reaper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing... | Edwin Muir | C. Maurice Bowra | The Heritage of Symbolism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Claude du Val | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Newgate Calendar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Lives of the Robbers and Pirates | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | group of London thieves | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either as penny numbers or in volume |
| 1850-1899 | '[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathe... | | The Bible | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); ... | William Wordsworth | Catullus | Carmina | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not pr... | William Wordsworth | John Donne | Holy Sonnet 10 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | John Gibson Lockhart | The Life of Scott | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Thomas Carlyle | The Life of John Sterling | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's tran... | William Wordsworth | Horace | Works of Horace. Translated into English Prose, for the use of those who are desirous of acquiring or recovering a competent knowledge of the Latin language. By Christopher Smart | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury (ed.) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating fr... | William Wordsworth | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation fro... | William Wordsworth | Richard Payne Knight | Progress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, The | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book u... | William Wordsworth | David Herd | Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... ' | William Wordsworth | Robert Heron | Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Countries of Scotland | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characte... | Philip Inman | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characte... | Philip Inman | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characte... | Philip Inman | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Holcroft | Man of Ten Thousand, The | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham ... | William Wordsworth | Juvenal | Satire X | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838:
'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon ... | Francis Wrangham | Juvenal | Satire X | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ... | F.W. Jowett | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | Select Collection of Old Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Philip Massinger | Picture, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... ' | William Wordsworth | Moschus | Lament for Bion | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... ' | William Wordsworth | Bion | Death of Adonis | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning I... | William Wordsworth | Petrarch | Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82,... | William Wordsworth | Jean Racine | Athalie | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing t... | William Wordsworth | Jean Racine | Athalie | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Herbert George Wells | The World Set Free | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | | [biography of William Penn] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Beg... | William Wordsworth | George Sandys | Relation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing a Description of the Turkish Empire, of AEgypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote Parts of Italy and Ilands Adjoyning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the kill... | William Wordsworth | George Shelvocke | Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, Performed in the Years 1719-1722 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | James Anthony Froude | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | John Richard Green | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thorold Rogers | Six Centuries of Work and Wages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two mor... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | [sonnets (two)] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three o... | William Wordsworth | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: ... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manusc... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Georgics | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '"I am translating the Oberon of Wieland," C[oleridge] told [Thomas] Poole, 20 Nov 1797.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christoph Martin Wieland | Oberon | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sep... | Francis Wrangham | Francis Wrangham | Brutoniad | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799:
'[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seeme... | Amos Cottle | unknown | Edda Soemundar hinns Froda | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata .... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Amos Cottle | Italia, vastata | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Fidelity | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806. | William Wordsworth | Michaelangelo Buonarotti | [sonnet] | Unknown |
| | Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 Nove... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Star-Gazers | Unknown |
| | Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall,... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Force of Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 11 May 1808: 'Would you believe it we too had dreams about Loch Kettrine when we ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 |
William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 180... | William Wordsworth | anon [working people] | ["half-penny Ballads"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 1808:... | William Wordsworth | | ["penny and two-penny histories"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a ... | William Wordsworth | unknown | [magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]':
'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in thi... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Convention of Cintra, The | |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Boo... | Dorothy Wordsworth | various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Boo... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy i... | Sara Hutchinson | William Wordsworth | Introduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, by the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Rector of East and West Wretham, in the County of Norfolk and Chaplain to the Marquis of Huntly | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, [c.19 February 1810] (letter fragmentary): 'Have you seen my Brother Christopher'... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Christopher Wordsworth | Ecclesiastical Biography, or Lives of Eminent Men connected with the History of Religion in England | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordswo... | Sara Hutchinson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Friend, A Literary, Moral and Political Weekly Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 'Sunday night, 13th April [1810]': 'When I saw the advertisement [for house at Wa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth, on visit to Catherine Clarkson at Bury St Edmunds, to William Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, 14 A... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during Octob... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Extract of letter from Thomas De Quincey to Mary Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth ... | Thomas De Quincey | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Extract of letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | [a romance in the style of Ann Radcliffe] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn... | Jack Lawson | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn... | Jack Lawson | Charles Reade | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Charlotte Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | John Richard Green | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | Edward Gibbon | [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | John Lothrop Motley | The Rise of the Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | William Hickling Prescott | The Conquest of Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | William Hickling Prescott | The Conquest of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll t... | Jack Lawson | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll t... | Jack Lawson | Lewis Carroll | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | John Keats | 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | John Keats | 'The Eve of St Agnes' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over... | Alice Foley | Robert Browning | 'Bishop Blougram's Apology' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued ove... | Alice Foley | Robert Browning | 'The Ring and the Book' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | Robert Herrick | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | William Wordsworth | 'Daffodils' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | Ivan Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | Alexander Pushkin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | Chaim Lewis | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | a revolutionary Russian rag merchant | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Marcus Aurelius | [Meditations]? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[William Lovett] read William Paley and other theologians in [the library of "The Liberals"].' | William Lovett | William Paley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With little formal education, William Farish acquired basic literacy and political knowledge by reading newspapers to... | William Farish | | Evening Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ... | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo... | George Gregory | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo... | George Gregory | John Harries | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | | Jack and The Ostrich | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | Charles Monroe Sheldon | The Crucifixion of Philip Strong | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m... | George Gregory | | Strongdold the Gladiator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatie... | William Wordsworth | Captain Charles Pasley | An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading. I have not opened a Book ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Philip Beaver | African Memoranda: relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Western Coast of Africa in the Year 1792 | Print: Book |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here a... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Amory | The Life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account ... | William Wordsworth | | ['a little poem upon the comet'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account ... | William Wordsworth | | Courier, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 27 December 1811: 'To diminish the evil [of smoking chimneys] we have a cons... | John Wordsworth | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He ha... | John Wordsworth | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'We have not yet been sufficiently settled to read any thing ... | Wordsworth Family | Amelia Opie | Adeline Mowbray or Mother and Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'Our new Master reads prayers to the Boys every night - John ... | | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... T... | William Wordsworth | | [travel books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yest... | Algernon Montagu | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]... | John Wordsworth | | [a story book] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what... | John Wordsworth | unknown | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what... | John Wordsworth | | [grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Chronicle of the Cid, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson, 1 February 1813: 'Willy [Wordsworth, the poet's son] is now beside me ... He ha... | Willy Wordsworth | | [nursery rhymes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu:... | William Wordsworth | Miguel Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson [about 14 Sept. 1813]: 'We have had no time to read Newspapers [with decorati... | Wordsworth Family | | | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'I was resolved not to write until I had read your Husband... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Anne Grant | Memoirs of an American Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | ['readings with the Bairns'] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 May 1814: 'I have to thank you for a Present of your Volume of Poems, received ... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Rogers | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsw... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Hazlitt | Review of The Excursion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsw... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Writing to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814, Dorothy Wordsworth gives transcription of version of William Wordswor... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Yarrow Visted | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up a... | Tom ?Clarkson | William Wordsworth | ?Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'I have to thank you ... for Egbert, which is pleasingly and v... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Egbert, or, The Suicide | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'I have peeped into the Ruminator, and turned to your first le... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Ruminator, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'Your longer poem I have barely looked into ... ' | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Childe Alarique, a poet's reverie with other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814:
'I thank you for the Queen's Wake; since I saw you in Edinburg... | William Wordsworth | James Hogg | Queen's Wake, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'When your Letter arrived I was in the act of reading to Mrs W[... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Exile, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have read the Ruminator, and I fear that I do not like it qu... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | The Ruminator | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get thr... | William Wordsworth | J. H. | Hunting of Badlew, a Dramatic Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'I have seen a book advertised under your name, which I suppose... | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Advertisement, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 14 February 1814, 'Have you read Lucien B[onaparte]' s Epic? I attempted it, but... | William Wordsworth | Lucien Bonaparte | Charlemagne, ou L'Eglise Sauvee, poeme epique en 24 chants | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes Wordsworth family's anxieties at hearing (false)rumour of death of Tom Clarkson, in lette... | Wordsworth Family | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs Kn... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815:
'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs ... | Miss Knott | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by... | Mary Wordsworth | Anna Maria Porter | Recluse of Norway, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'Mary is deep in the 2nd volume of the "Recluse of Norway" by... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Anna Maria Porter | Recluse of Norway, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'It is 11 o'clock. William has been reading the Fairy Queen -... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Fairy Queen, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and f... | William Wordsworth | Christopher Wordsworth | sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and f... | Mary Wordsworth | Christopher Wordsworth | sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815:
'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Christopher Wordsworth | sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'Buonaparte seems quite to have put the Corn Laws out of our hea... | William Wordsworth | | [information about the Corn Laws] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h... | Hannah More | William Wordsworth | extracts from The Excursion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h... | Hannah More | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815, on following progress of Napoleon in British press: 'Those villai... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 8 April 1815: 'I see by last night's paper (we take the evening Mail) that Mura... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I can... | William Wordsworth | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a shor... | William Wordsworth | John Scott | Visit to Paris in 1814 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815, on learning of abdication of Napoleon: '11 o'clock. Before I ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 28 June 1815: 'I have seen the British Critic which contains a Review by a F... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | British Critic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman ... | William Wordsworth | Johann Joachim Winkelman | Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff r... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Captain Luff | journal | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 31 December 1815: 'In reading the 3rd Book of the Excursion last night what ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it... | Wordsworth Family | John Scott | Paris Revisited in 1815 by way of Brussels | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott, 25 February 1816, on own and contemporaries' endeavours to celebrate victory at Wate... | William Wordsworth | Robert Southey | [Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of ex... | William Wordsworth | Christopher Wordsworth | A sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the Consecration of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, 1815 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: "We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of ex... | Wordsworth Family | Christopher Wordsworth | A sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the Consecration of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, 1815 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me y... | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Illustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tales, with other Poems | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to John Scott: "I have read your late Champions with much pleasure" | William Wordsworth | | The Champion | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies: " ... your poem [Rinaldo] I have read with considerable attention." | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Rinaldo, a desultory Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Hal... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Catherine Clarkson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of p... | Charley | anon | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful |
| 1850-1899 | Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of p... | Charley ? | | Tyburn Dick | Print: Serial / periodical, penny dreadful |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence to Parliamentary Committee from Rev. Thomas Spencer, a Church of England clergyman:
"I was appealed to in ... | anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps:
"This 'Court of London' I c... | Abel Heywood | G.W.M. Reynolds | The Mysteries of the Court of London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps:
"I take home the 'Family He... | Abel Heywood | | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps:
"I take home the 'Family He... | Heywood family | | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps:
"My experience is this: that what inter... | William Edward Hickson | | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps:
"I find even with myself coming to Lond... | William Edward Hickson | | Maidstone Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps:
"I find even with myself coming to Lond... | William Edward Hickson | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence of William Edward Hickson to Select Committee on Newspaper stamps:
"I formed in the village where I am now... | William Edward Hickson | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been twice in prison. I was only in Liverpool two days. I came from Manch... | H.T. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, read as numbers or volume? |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been five times in prison. I have been as the Sanspareil and at all the t... | T.A | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only be... | G.G. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been three times in prison and once discharged. I have been at the Sanspa... | J.M. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I was never in prison before. I have been twice discharged, and am now waiting f... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of a juvenile offender:
"I have been nine times in prison and once discharged, and am now waiting trial..... | T.E. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been six times in prison and four times discharged, and am now waiting tria... | M.F. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been twice in prison and am now waiting trial... I have seen 'Jack Sheppard... | A.L. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been six times in prison, and four times discharged... Never saw 'Jack Shep... | J.F. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I have been four times in prison and twice discharged... I never saw Jack Sheppard... | | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I have been at the Sanspareil, and at all the other ... | E.B. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I was taken into custody for attempting to rob my ma... | J.H. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I thought this 'Jack Sheppard' was a clever fellow for making his escape and robbi... | J.L. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportuni... | J.H. | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement of juvenile offender:
"When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportuni... | J.H. | [unknown] | [books about voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement about juvenile offender:
"attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school th... | J.S. | | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement about juvenile offender:
"attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school th... | J.S. | | Gilderoy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Statement about juvenile offender:
"attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school th... | J.S. | | [story books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner:
"From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the... | J.G. | | Child's First Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Athenaeus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cato | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sallust | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Tacitus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aulus Gellius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Suetonius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Academic Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Natura Deorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Divinatione | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Speeches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters to Atticus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Second Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Third Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Last Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter]. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| | 'I have read your Poem. I like it better than any of the preceding ones.' | William Wordsworth | R. P. Gillies | Oswald, A Metrical Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wiliam Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 22 June 1817: 'By the bye, it was not till this morning that I read the case of St... | William Wordsworth | | case of Stuart versus Lovell | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented my... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Taylor | Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 13 Feb 1818:
'I dined at the Wakefields yesterday. Mr John W. senior broke out ... | William Wordsworth | Lord Lonsdale | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Transcribed in letter from William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c.25 February 1818]:
'If money I lack
The shir... | William Wordsworth | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly ... | William Wordsworth | | Kendal Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly ... | William Wordsworth | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describing progress of electioneering in Kendal to Sara Hutchinson, 24 March 1818:
'This morning ... | William Crackenthorp | Thomas Clarkson | letter to Mr Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]:
'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther to... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest i... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Clarkson | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberf... | William Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | Close Comments on a Straggling Speech | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c. 14 April 1818]: 'The notes upon [Henry] Brougham's Speech, I have not seen... | William Wordsworth, Viscount Lowther | Thomas De Quincey | Close Comments on a Straggling Speech | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Ch... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 8 December 1818: 'I have seen Mr Fleming, and told him everything you wished .... | William Wordsworth | Viscount Lowther | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: 'Mr Monkhouse will probably have shewn you the copy of ... | Christopher Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | letter to Revd. John Russell | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1... | John Wordsworth | | dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2... | Samuel Rogers | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know les... | William Wordsworth | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | translation of Virgil, Eclogues | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Eclogues | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 7 April 1819: 'Having occasion to go to Sockbridge along with our Rector, Mr Jack... | William Wordsworth | | [List of Applicants for Enfranchisement] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Crito | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 22 May [1819]: 'I have deferred thanking your Lordship for your kind attention in... | William Wordsworth | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Juvenal | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbou... | William Wordsworth | | [list of new freeholders] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charitie... | William Wordsworth | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Hans Busk, 6 July 1819: 'Dear Sir, Your writings are not to be hurried over; this must plead my ... | William Wordsworth | Hans Busk | Vestriad, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Joanna Hutchinson, 5 September 1819: 'We have been very comfortable and without the least bustle... | Thomas Monkhouse | J. G. Crump | | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. ... | William Wordsworth | | Guardian, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. ... | William Wordsworth | | advertisements | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchi... | Sara Hutchinson | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr... | William Wordsworth | [A Westmorland Inhabitant and Freeholder] Anon | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misr... | William Wordsworth | | Kendal Chronicle, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the ... | Wordsworth Family | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the ... | Wordsworth Family | | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820:
'Tom and I ... | William Johnson | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820:
'Tom and I ... | William Coleridge | | Communion Service | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes daily routine during stay at her brother Christopher's London residence in letter to Mary... | Christopher Wordsworth | | prayers | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Lonsdale to William Wordsworth, 1 May 1820: 'I have read the Sonnets on the Duddon, and the notes annexed to them... | Lord Lonsdale | William Wordsworth | River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and indu... | Thomas Clarkson | Thomas Clarkson | sermon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your le... | William Wordsworth | Helen Maria Williams | The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820: 'The news from Hayti [ie Haiti, where revolution had taken ... | Thomas Clarkson | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet... | William Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 2 May 1812 M[ary] W[ordsworth] wrote to her husband from Hindwell: "I have read the 'Ladies calling' - one of thy ... | Mary Wordsworth | Richard Allestree | Ladies Calling, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | An unfortunate Mother to the infant at her Breast | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Copied by Dorothy Wordsworth into Wordsworth Commonplace Book:
'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices
... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Aristotle | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805:
'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues... | William Wordsworth | Aristotle | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracts from [John] Barrow's Travels in China appear in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ...' | Wordsworth Family | John Barrow | Travels in China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, "The nicest model of a churn I ever saw... | Sara Hutchinson | John Barrow | Travels into the Interior of South Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into... | Charles Lamb | John Beaumont | An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor... | Sir George Beaumont | John Beaumont | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In her letter of 18 Oct. 1811 ... S[ara] H[utchinson] told Mary Monkhouse: "I have been dipping into Bingley's Tour o... | Sara Hutchinson | William Bingley | North Wales: including its scenery, antiquities, customs, and some sketch of its natural history | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded on 24 May 1812 that "I read Wordsworth some of Blake's poems; he was pleased with som... | Henry Crabb Robinson | William Blake | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext... | William Wordsworth | Robert Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way ... | Charles Lamb | Vincent Bourne | Latin Poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was ... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting wi... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[In Germany] C[oleridge] read [Frederika] Brun's Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange, which provided the inspiration for his... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Frederika Brun | Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'C[oleridge] read [George Buchanan] at Cambridge.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Buchanan | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... pro... | William Wordsworth | John Lanne Buchanan | Travels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Burnet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some o... | William Wordsworth | Dr Currie | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some o... | William Wordsworth | Robert Burns | letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ..... | Thomas De Quincey | John Byrom | Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ..... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Byrom | Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scot... | Thomas De Quincey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord... | William Wordsworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord... | Lady Beaumont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped... | William Wordsworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied an... | Sara Hutchinson | Thomas Campbell | Exile of Erin, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read ... [George Carleton, Memoirs] in April [1809] ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Carleton | Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.' | William Wordsworth | Gabriello Chiabrera | Delle Opere di Gabriello Chiabrera | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] seems to have translated ... [John Clanvowe, Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale] on 7 and 8 Dec. 1801, a... | William Wordsworth | John Clanvowe | Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in ear... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The | Print: proof |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Cobbett | Weekly Political Register, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordswort... | William Wordsworth | | [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordswort... | William Wordsworth | unknown | Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ... | |
| 1800-1849 | Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803. | Charles Lamb | Charles Cotton | Winter | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['O... | Charles Lamb | William Cowper | On the Loss of the Royal George | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Daniel | Hymen's Triumph | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Daniel | Musophilus | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti... | William Wordsworth | Sneyd Davies | Against Indolence. An Epistle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a ti... | William Wordsworth | William Enfield | Speaker, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey "can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book".' | Herbert Southey | Daniel Defoe | Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in 1804 [Robert] Southey noted that Hartley Coleridge "never has read, nor will read, beyond Robinson's departure fro... | Hartley Coleridge | Daniel Defoe | Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.' | William Wordsworth | Rene Descartes | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kenelm Digby | Two Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule; is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable bodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the followi... | William Wordsworth | Michael Drayton | Elegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, Esq. of Poets and Poesy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas | Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... ' | Robert Southey | Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas | Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... ' | William Wordsworth | Maria Edgeworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, nam... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | epitaph of Josias Franklin and wife | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, nam... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | epitaph of Benjamin Franklin | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, nam... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | epitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsw... | William Wordsworth | | Gazette, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815:
'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has ju... | William Wordsworth | William Godwin | Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupils of Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Con... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Tale Imitated from Gower | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very... | Wordsworth Family | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, ... | William Wordsworth | James Grahame | Birds of Scotland | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Fulke Greville | Treatie of Human Learning, A | Print: Book |
| | 'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Fulke Greville | Inquisition upon Fame and Honour, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Fulke Greville | Treatie on Warres, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Fulke Greville | Alaham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into... | Wordsworth Family | Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon | Life of Lady Guion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently readi... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Herbert | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading h... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Herbert | Temple, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 Ap... | Wordsworth Family | Robert Heron | Observations Made in a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has an... | Robert Southey | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (O... | William Wordsworth | Francis Jeffrey | review of Thalaba | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter ... | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | Dialogue Between a Mother and Child | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth]... | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.' | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | Virgin and Child | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter o... | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | On the Same (Virgin and Child) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I w... | William Wordsworth | Walter Savage Landor | Simoneida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale:
'This mo... | William Wordsworth | Harriet Lee | German's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 19 Aug. 1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was "reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beau... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Alain Rene Le Sage | Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] i... | John Wordsworth | M. G. Lewis | Felon, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not s... | William Wordsworth | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Bo... | William Wordsworth | Willam Blake | [lyrics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Bo... | Mary Wordsworth | Willam Blake | [lyrics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordswort... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Malory | Morte D'Arthur | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]... | Sara Hutchinson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Andrew Marvell | On a Drop of Dew | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.' | William Wordsworth | Andrew Marvell | Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, An | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wiliam Gifford | Introduction to The Plays of Philip Massinger | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ferriar | [essay] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proc... | William Wordsworth | Michaelangelo | [sonnets] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Siste... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | [sonnets] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Para... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the leas... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's... | William Wordsworth | anon | Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early Ju... | Thomas De Quincey | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleri... | Charles Lamb | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup me... | Wordsworth Family | anon | [Recipe for croup medicine] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, ... | William Wordsworth | Lindley Murray | Introduction to the English Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned t... | George Gregory | Charles Lyell | Principles of Geology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned t... | George Gregory | | [book of world history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekl... | | | [weekly paper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | Daniel Defoe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | Frederick Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | James Fenimore Cooper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | Jules Verne | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Charles Darwin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Thomas Henry Huxley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | | British Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Emile Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Henrik Johan Ibsen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Oscar Wilde | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | | [Marxist Economics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her ow... | Deborah Smith | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 'Break, break, break' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora THompson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora THompson | Walter Scott | Waverley Novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley's illiterate mother objected to silent reading but responded well to Alice's reading of Alice in Wonderla... | Alice Foley | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | | Arthur Conan Doyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | | | The Family Reader | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | | [n/a] | The Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | | | Lloyd's Weekly News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | Harry Burton | Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | family of Harry Burton | | Chips | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... | family of Harry Burton | | The Butterfly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The L... | a Scottish joiner's son | David Moir | The Life of Mansie Wauch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | [the story of Joseph] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Jack the Giant Killer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Sinbad the Sailor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Beauty and the Beast | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | | Aladdin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | Homer | the Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a... | Hugh Miller | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim... | Hugh Miller | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Petrarch | De Vita Solitaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonpla... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ambrose Philips | Collection of Old Ballads, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependen... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pindar | Carmina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Plato | Timaeus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very ... | William Wordsworth | Sir Joshua Reynolds | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very ... | William Wordsworth | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont;
"'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at... | William Wordsworth | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Rich... | Robert Southey | Samuel Richardson | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selection from the original manuscripts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got thr... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Roscoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [h... | Robert Southey | William Roscoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| | 'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein u... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | The Death of Wallenstein | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge] was a reader of ... [The Lady of the Lake]: he read Southey's copy in Sept. 1810 ... ' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801.... | William Wordsworth | Daniel Sennertus | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | William Sotheby | I knew a gentle maid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | William Sotheby | I knew a gentle maid | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir wi... | William Wordsworth | Alaric Watts | Souvenir | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby:
"I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Sotheby | Saul, a Poem | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me abou... | James Losh | Robert Southey | Madoc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book:
'O holy peace by thee are only found
The passing joys that ever... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joshua Sylvester | O Holy Peace | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than ... | William Wordsworth | Jeremy Taylor | Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, A | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "a... | Sara Hutchinson | anon | Courier | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.
| Wordsworth Family | Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney | Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Duncan Wu identifies poem transcribed in Wordsworth Commonplace Book and opening 'Sweet scented flow'r! who'rt wont to... | Wordsworth Family | Henry Kirke White | To the Herb Rosemary | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Southey describes arrival of 'literary remains' of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Ki... | Robert Southey | Henry Kirke White | ["literary remains"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Southey describes arrival of "literary remains" of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Ki... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Kirke White | ["literary remains"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pu... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Wilkinson | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own ha... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Wilkinson | Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect, A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired ... | William Wordsworth | Thomas Wilkinson | Tours to the British Mountains | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Bird... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Wilkinson | To My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc. | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle o... | William Wordsworth | John Wilson | [MS poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British P... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Withering | Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest Imrovements of the Linnean System and an Introduction to the Study of Botany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant an... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | [poem] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant an... | William Wordsworth | Various | Annual Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Hutchinson | History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Cowper | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry... | Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Poems on Various Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry... | Henry Mackenzie | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Poems on Various Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for libel; witness reads to the court the offending paragraphs published in newspaper.
J... | James Chetham | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Monthly Literary Recreations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Gurney cross-examines victim Thomas Metcalfe in trial of Ann Wright for theft. During examination, reads to Metcalf... | | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | During the trial of Jonathan Furlonger for theft, Mr Alley, in questioning witness Edward Pilcher, reads to the court ... | | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [morning newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods.
Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard:
Q: "Do you... | George Picard | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court:
Q: "... | George Deboos | | | Manuscript: invoice |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court
Deboos: ... | George Deboos | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for coining:
John Shobel: "Freeman, the inspector, stood by the fire, reading the newsp... | Joshua Freeman | | | Print: Newspaper |
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1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitec... | Nicholas Benigne Ablin | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for coining/forgery:
John Limbrick: "I am an officer of Hatton Garden. I was with Read ... | James Clark | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertise... | Thomas Stevenson | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for highway robbery:
John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I... | John Gavill | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the a... | anon | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: proofManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
Eliza Morris: "I went to live servant at the Bank tavern, John-street, and o... | Eliza Morris | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
Robert Ireland: "On the 11th of July, in the afternoon, these stockings hung... | Robert Ireland | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
John Mims: "I am servant to John Bird, who keeps a cook-shop in Golden Lane.... | John Mims | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a ... | George Griffiths | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a ... | George Griffiths | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I heard about this business, three weeks ago. I heard M... | | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Brougham | [speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi mo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | Ode ("Exegi monumentum") | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon | advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Galt | Fair Shepherdess, The | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | De Arte Poetica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | | [The New Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | | [tale of Robin Hood] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | | Jack the Giant Killer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | | [Story of St George and the Dragon] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | Richard Johnson | The History of The Seven Champions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | | [ghost stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | | [highwayman stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas C... | Thomas Carter | | The Bible - Revelation, Kings, Chronicles, Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Dowlman: "I am a cheesemonger. The bacon is mine -I was reading the n... | William Dowlman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Spencer: "On the 6th of April, in consequence of what I saw in the newsp... | John Spencer | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Canes: "I was reading in the newspaper at the public house that a man ... | James Canes | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for conspiracy:
Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newsp... | Rev Francis Lee | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Stevenson: "I saw the prisoner at the Black Horse... where I lodge... ... | William Clements | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness reads letter aloud to court as evidence in trial for assault:
James Locke: "I have the letter. (reads) 'To ... | James Locke | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Henry Palmer: "In the middle of March, in the evening, I was sitting at the... | Henry Palmer | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery:
"On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell... | John Hill Wagstaff | | Bell's Weekly Messager | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Cammell: "I heard the prisoner was in custody a few days after -I read it in ... | John Cammell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft -shoplifting:
Wilhelmina Clarke: "I am servant to Mr Birt... On the 12th of Ma... | John Birt | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for misdemeanour:
Robert Coles: "I live at Southampton, and have been a cabinet maker. I... | Robert Coles | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Joseph Ortega: "On the 16th of December about a quarter past six o'... | Joseph Ortega | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Elizabeth Walter: "I read in the newspaper, when I had a pint of beer, wha... | Elizabeth Walter | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Husband: "I have heard of his [Bowers] being in custody; I saw it in t... | Thomas Husband | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the ... | Francis Gifford Banner | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for shoplifting:
Mary Bennett: "I am the prosector's wife. I was in the shop ...I was si... | Mary Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements and prisoner's defence in trial for theft:
Francis Barnwell: "...the prisoner was then sitting ... | William Tanner | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James Carty: "Mrs Rankin said the robbery was done on Friday, the 1... | James Carty | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Jobling: "I am the prosecutrix's mother. On the evening of the 28th o... | Elizabeth Harriet Guy | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Michael Thomas: "About a week afterwards I read something in the newspaper... | Michael Thomas | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
John William Harrison: "he (William Heath) was up in a corner of the ... | William Heath | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the goo... | Stephen Davies | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for murder:
William Lee: "I am a prisoner in the New prison, Clerkenwell, charged with ... | Samuel Arundel | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Philip Miller: "On the 27th of April I was at the Horse and Groom public ho... | Philip Miller | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for coining:
John Leeming: "a few days afterwards I saw something in the newspaper, went... | John Leeming | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe' | Robert Roberts | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
George Coombs: "I appointed to meet him [Conway] next evening at the coffee... | George Coobs | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, eve... | Arthur | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Taylor: "I did not know he [Crane] was committed [for trial] till I s... | William Taylor | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying... | | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Gilbert: "I saw the Times newspaper on the 22nd of March, and in cons... | William Gilbert | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | | [Old Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Owens: "I saw him [Peacock] at our house on Saturday evening the 6th ... | William Owens | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | | [tale of Robin Hood] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Jesse Adkins: "I am the landlord of the Laurel... My servant, Moore, came to ... | Michael McCrea | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy"... | John Paton | | [Old and New Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy"... | John Paton | | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
Lucy Tring: "In the parlour with me and my husband, who was reading the news... | Thomas Tring | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [reading the Bible], Robert Story, an early nineteenth century shepherd-poet, described the experience: "The unconsume... | Robert Story | | [Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriler ("the men and women of the sacred books were as fam... | Frederick Rogers | | [Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as fa... | Frederick Rogers | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as fa... | Frederick Rogers | Alexandre Dumas | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ... | William Heaton | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ... | William Heaton | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ... | William Heaton | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress... | Herbert Hodge | William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lyndon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress... | Herbert Hodge | Emma Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress... | Herbert Hodge | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress... | Herbert Hodge | Harry Blyth | [Sexton Blake stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pi... | Elizabeth Rignall | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure... | Harry West | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | [translation of Juvenal] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure... | Harry West | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure... | Harry West | Carl Jung | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Richard Watson | Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When h... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines on Dermody] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines in the cave at Seaham] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o... | [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon | Annabella Milbanke | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | Metrical Effusions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your s... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [Sunday papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [biography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and L... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Brooke | [untitled manuscript] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church an... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [epitaphs] | Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke do... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Thurlow | "When Rogers ... " | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Galt | Letters from the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures... | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des O... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | A. L. Castellan | Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Grimm | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J. Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly... | Francis Place | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster |
| 1700-1799 | I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woma... | Francis Place | | Dillworths Spelling Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | British Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a... | Francis Place | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi... | Francis Place | | Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi... | Francis Place | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | | various religious titles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [epigram on J. W. Ward] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [epigram on J. W. Ward] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holida... | Francis Place | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holida... | Older boys from the school of Francis Place | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Christian Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making so... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Persian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchoir Grimm | Correspondance Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ... | Francis Place | | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ... | Francis Place | | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstan... | Francis Place | Francis Place | Autobiography | Manuscript: unpublished memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Burns | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my l... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown, histories of Greece and Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for ... | Lady Oxford | Lucretius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for ... | Lady Oxford | Busby | [translation of Lucretius] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Tobias George Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Robertson | unknown [Robertson's works?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Hume's Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | translations from French writers | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sir Egerton Brydges | The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown various [anatomy and surgery] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown [relating to the Arts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown [many magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Guthrie | unknown [Guthries Geography] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown [Geometry] | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webst... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster | letter with poem | Manuscript: Letter |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Frederick Cooke | Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Frederick Cooke | George Gordon Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| | In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards... | George Frederick Cooke | George Gordon Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | John Galt | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Henry Fox, third Lord Holland | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Thomas Moore | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Samuel Rogers | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Lady Melbourne | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on the punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
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1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Glenbervie | Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to l... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [Italian] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the ba... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | The Robbers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some... | Richard Sharp | unknown | [poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott] | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and tol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Anti-Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | Quarrels of Authors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Chardin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matteo Bandello | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the begi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Herman Merivale | Orlando in Roncesvalles | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Feast of the Poets | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [ministerial gazettes] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | Matthew Hale | History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | | various [Law books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | | various [biographies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Essays and Treatises] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [politics and law] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | | [geometry text] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | Williamson | Euclid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I h... | Francis Place | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society] The usual mode of proceeding at these weekly meetings was this. The ... | Members of the London Corresponding Society | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'En... | Francis Place | William Godwin | Inquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learni... | Francis Place | | unknown [French grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Helvetius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the... | Francis Place | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differ... | Annie Kenney | | [Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... Accordin... | Helen Crawfurd | | [Bible - Psalms] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in mo... | John Clare | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Deborah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Anti-Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Frances Burney | The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814) | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stratford Canning | Bonaparte | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a fore... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [Roman History] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [article] | Unknown |
| | Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Murray | [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)] | Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas [?] | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814:
'the best thing of that kind I met w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [history book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to f... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (allud... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Porson | Letters to Archdeacon Travis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814:
'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems b... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara; Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said ... | Augusta Leigh | Annabella Milbanke | [letter to Byron] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, all... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [packet] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I als... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Byron family pedigree | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Story of Rimini (Canto 3) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | for the most part reading histories, and such books of controversies as the tymes gave occastion for writing | John Bramston | | various unknown [histories] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and goo... | John Bramston | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and goo... | John Bramston | | various unknown [religious titles] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | That was carried by Tymothie Code,a scrivenor in Chelmsford, to the coffeehouse, and there read by on Mr. Johnson, cur... | | | | |
| 1600-1699 | He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do.... | John Bramston | | Instructions | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before ... | Sir John Trevor | Sir John Trevor | [untitled] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me | John Bramston | Sir Nicholas Hyde | [untitled] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it ... | John Bramston | John Bramston | [untitled] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the... | John Bramston | | Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. cap 5 | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1600-1699 | Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at th... | Celia Fiennes | William Camden | Britannia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's... | Robert Anderson | Thomas Dyche | The Spelling Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's... | Robert Anderson | | Reading Made Easy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's... | Robert Anderson | | [A Primer] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that h... | | Henry De Vere Stacpoole | The Blue Lagoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that h... | Betty Martin | Henry De Vere Stacpoole | The Blue Lagoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | girls' school stories came in for heavy and sustained attack, and at one stage in my life I painfully hankered after t... | Patricia Beer | | Ursula's Last Term | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly --... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [paper on the Methodists] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the fro... | Harriet Beer | | Coming Through the Rye | Print: Book |
| | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Lamb | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Throughout our childhood, mother read aloud to us, usually at the kitchen table, but sometimes, as a treat, in the fro... | Harriet Beer | Gene Stratton-Porter | Freckles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Byron | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would nev... | Harriet Beer | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity an... | Patricia Beer | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... wer... | Augusta Leigh | Leigh Hunt | The Story of Rimini | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Novelle Amorose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Animali Parlante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816, on advertisement falsely ascribing authorship of various poems to him: 'I enclose ... | John Polidori | | advertisement for publications | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remembe... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edmund Ludlow | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Margaret de Thomas | epitaph to Edmund Ludlow | Manuscript: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a d... | John Cole | | The European | Print: Serial / periodical, Magazine |
| 1800-1849 | Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desu... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desu... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to b... | John Cole | | The Hull Advertiser | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | [inscription on rock] | Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Salomon Gessner | The Death of Abel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Ha... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Alexander Pope | Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Cicero | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | | Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | H. Gally Knight | Ilderim: A Syrian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Pamphleteer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in '... | John Cole | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucretia de Borgia | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia | letters | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | Aaron Hill | Zara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Siste... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "book treating of the Rhine" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Duenna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | ["the Italian version of the French papers"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'". | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair... | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is th... | Will Baillie | Leonardo Da Vinci | A Treatise of Painting | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points... | Magdalene Erskine | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,... | Augusta Leigh | George Gordon Lord Byron | travel journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | travel journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between... | George Gordon Lord Byron | St. Paul | Epistles to Corinthians | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almos... | Harriet Martineau | R.M. Milnes | | Print: Book |
| | Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Can... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into suc... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the st... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johan Christoph von Schiller | Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety... | John Andre de Luc | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Charles Robert Maturin | Manuel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Su... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Belgrave Hoppner | Elegy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" ... | Patricia Beer | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" ... | Patricia Beer | A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',... | Patricia Beer | Charles Kingsley | The Water Babies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a ... | Patricia Beer | | unknown [missionary book about China] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Once or twice some description of physical pain broke through my detachment: the detailed account of the binding of a ... | Patricia Beer | Hans Christian Anderson | The Little Mermaid | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined f... | Patricia Beer | Hans Christian Anderson | The Ugly Duckling | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obvi... | Patricia Beer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Societ... | Patricia Beer | Hesba Stretton | Little Meg's Children | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Societ... | Patricia Beer | Hesba Stretton | Jessica's First Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Societ... | Patricia Beer | Mrs O.F. Walton | Christie's Old Organ; or, Home Sweet Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Societ... | Patricia Beer | Amy Le Feuvre | [various, unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus h... | Patricia Beer | L.M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus h... | Patricia Beer | L.M. Montgomery | Emily of New Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommende... | Patricia Beer | D.K. Broster | The Flight of the Heron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I succes... | Harriet Beer | D.K. Broster | The Flight of the Heron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I succes... | Harriet Beer | D.K. Broster | The Gleam in the North | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I succes... | Harriet Beer | D.K. Broster | The Dark Mile | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I succes... | Patricia Beer | D.K. Broster | The Dark Mile | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I succes... | Patricia Beer | D.K. Broster | The Gleam in the North | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me... | Sheila Beer | D.K. Broster | The Flight of the Heron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Rev. William Beloe | The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertain... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [obituary] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Stewart Rose | The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Italian Gazettes] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have see... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" ... | Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | The Friends: a Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Vittorio Alfieri | [marginalia] | Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | Count Vittorio Alfieri | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rathe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | n/a | Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benvenuto da Imola | Commentary on Dante, Commedia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the ... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with... | Harriet Martineau | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Hymns in Prose for Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the G... | Mary Russell Mitford | Caroline Clive | The Great Drought | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Caroline Clive | The Queen's Ball: A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Henri Balzac | La Recherche de L'Absolu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Henri Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Henri Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Dr Kitto | holy verses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Duffy | Irish Songs and Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Mirabeau | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Lucas Montigny | Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To m... | Joseph Greenwood | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe,... | John Ward | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of "faraw... | Thomas Jordan | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Robert Michael Ballantyne | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | William Henry Giles Kingston | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every w... | Alison Uttley | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every w... | Alison Uttley | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David... | George Acorn | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu... | Neville Cardus | | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Hans Christian Anderson | The Snow Queen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | | The Wreck of the Grosvenor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Frederick Marryat | Mr Midshipman Easy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him... | John Carter | [n/a] | Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him... | John Carter | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morni... | John Carter | [n/a] | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | From thence he was sent to Eaton, where he was educated other six years, during all which time he was more than ordina... | William Gouge | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his fr... | William Gouge | | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely ... | William Gouge | | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and su... | William Gouge | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and su... | William Gouge | | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him th... | Thomas Gataker | | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Car... | Welsh schoolboys | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performe... | Thomas Gataker | | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Plutarch | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | | Ancient Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie | Chronicles of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Allan Ramsay | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Fergusson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the rea... | James Usher | St Augustine | St. Augustines Meditations | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of... | James Usher | Sleidans | Book of the Four Empires | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of... | James Usher | | [various unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he assert... | James Usher | Stapleton | Fortress of the Faith | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the... | Robert Story | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pop... | Robert Story | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ... | Hugh Miller | [probably William] Robertson | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, theref... | Margaret Charlton | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She ... | Margaret Baxter | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | A Legend of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and... | Richard Baxter | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the pa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsch... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | German periodicals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Marino Sanuto | "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "Siege of Zara" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Antoine Daru | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Charles Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which inc... | Janet Hitchman | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | W.G. Collingwood | The Life of Ruskin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which inc... | Janet Hitchman | O.F. Walton | Christie's Old Organ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | O.F. Walton | A Peep Behind the Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometim... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | Hans Christian Anderson | The Little Match Girl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish la... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Giulio Perticari | Dell'amor patrio di Dante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches t... | William Fletcher | | Galignani's Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | | [Greek philosophy] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jane Waldie | Sketches Descriptive of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [speeches] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three... | Joseph Keating | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From a classroom library of perhaps two dozen volumes [Richard Hillyer] borrowed one by Tennyson, simply because it h... | Richard Hillyer | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a second-hand stall, [Richard Hillyer] bought a four volume Half Hours with Best Authors. One could dismiss it as ... | Richard Hillyer | | Half Hours With Best Authors | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | John Keats | [a minor poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Alexander Pope | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | William Cowper | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Kirke White | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Felicia Hemans | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Samuel Rogers | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Aristotle | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | | Koran | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | | The Niebelunglied | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Friedrich Schiller | William Tell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu... | | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Charles Lamb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | George Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Meredith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Samuel Pepys | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago ... | Margaret Oliphant | Amelia Hutchison Stirling | Monsieur le Comte | Manuscript: Book in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name?... | Margaret Oliphant | Harriette Cheape | Tea at the Mains | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wrecker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Rudyard Kipling | Naulakha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original,... | Margaret Oliphant | Sarah Grand | Singularly Deluded | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir... | Margaret Oliphant | | St James's | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | Graham Travers | Mona Maclean: Medical Student | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | F Marion Crawford | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of e... | Margaret Oliphant | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Old Lady Cloncurry, who I suppose knows as much about Ireland as most people, was quite enthusiastic about that artic... | Lady Cloncurry | | Priest-Ridden Ireland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the At... | Margaret Oliphant | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a... | [?George] Simpson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle |
| 1850-1899 | 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a... | Old Mrs Simpson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of ... | G.C. Swayne | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | papers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers men... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [poetry] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat... | R.H. Patterson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Guiseppe Bossi | Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melvil... | Colonel Moncrieff | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (3rd series) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture." | Lady Eleanor Butler | | Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had... | "Old" Gleig | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had... | "Old" Gleig | | Review of "Lothair" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assay... | Lord Brougham | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Metastasio | Betulia Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. Th... | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | William Fletcher | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbe... | Theodore Martin | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Louis Ginguene | Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Lope de Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gentlemen.
I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound f... | Francis Philips | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard ... | Joseph Hunter | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former production | Joseph Hunter | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Roscoe | The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as ... | Alex Innes Shand | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (2nd series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lugano Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned ov... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary. | Emily Laszowska | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | The Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | accounts | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | various | Lives of poets | Print: BookUnknown |
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1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | unknown | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | unknown | |
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1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon. | Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Milton | Sabrina Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edwar... | George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young. | Thomas Moore | Epistles, Odes and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guid... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Franz Grillparzer | Sappho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Christoph Martin Wieland | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the ope... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Diodorus Siculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | Javanese newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: 'In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t... | Thomas Moore | | Javanese newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lom... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [various books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Rea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Lisle Bowles | various | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Louis Buonaparte | Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned .... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Roman history | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was... | John Bunyan | Martin Luther | Commentary on the Galations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Italian newspaper | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on W... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Turner | Journal of a Tour in the Levant | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [various novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in th... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ruddiman | Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | After breakfast the three maids were called in for prayers. Our uncle who was working his way chronologically through ... | Mr Bugg | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Douglas Kinnaird | letter (ie article?) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & ful... | George Gordon Lord Byron | J. G. Lockhart | John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron | |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Home Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | G.E. Farrow | The Wallypug of Why | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Children's Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply... | George Gordon Lord Byron | [N. N. A.] anon | [private letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Hereward the Wake | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | [comics -unknown] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Marriage on Two Hundred a Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to conti... | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan (Cantos I and II) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of ... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Ford Madox Ford | English Review | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | James Russell Lowell | The Vision of Sir Launfal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| | Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in Eng... | George Gordon Lord Byron | A. A. Watts | series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Tully | Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Octavius Gilchrist | pamphlets | |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Books of Old Testament | Print: Book |
| | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Monody on Garrick | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in... | Charles 2nd Earl Grey | unknown | Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira | Manuscript: LetterUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in... | William Wyndham Lord Grenville | unknown | Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ev... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [reviews] | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
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1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be perso... | Douglas Kinnaird | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in... | friends of Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Sheppard | [unknown] | Manuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for "Mirandola" | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Southey | letter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical dra... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Oxoniensis [pseud.] | Remonstrance against Cain | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | [English newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the do... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | | Manuscript: epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subsc... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone throu... | Cassandra Austen | Jane Austen | First Impressions | Manuscript: Book in Manuscript |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thompson | book of prescriptions | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in S... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Harriet Lee | The German's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count D'Orsay | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau | Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times." | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Haydn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Mozart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | essay on Racine and Shakespeare | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me wit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Amadee Pichot | Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Ann Fraser Tytler | Leila: or, The Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Catherine Sinclair | Holiday House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | | The Wave and the Battlefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e... | Grace Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Mary Louisa Molesworth | The Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Chaplet of Pearls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Wilhelm Hey | Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".' | Grace Macaulay | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Walter Scott | The Talisman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Robert Michael Ballantyne | Coral Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Prince and the Page | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson' | Rose Macaulay | Johann David Wyss | Swiss Family Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ... | Rose Macaulay | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ... | Rose Macaulay | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | George Sand | La Mare au Diable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | Jules Sandeau | La Chasse au Roman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | Lord Mahon | The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | | Memoirs of a Missionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to kn... | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Harris | From Oxford to Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.' | Caroline Clive | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Lady Geraldine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.' | Caroline Clive | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual' | Caroline Clive | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before deat... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before deat... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Edward Bulwer Lytton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our h... | Lord Lansdowne | Caroline Clive | Paul Ferroll | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our h... | Lord Lansdowne | Caroline Clive | poems (unspecified) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch... | Rose Macaulay | Thomas a Kempis | On The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro... | Rose Macaulay | John Stuart Mill | probably 'On Liberty' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro... | Rose Macaulay | Ernest Renan | Life of Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[T.A.] Jackson's tastes had been formed by the old books in his parents' home: "A fine set of Pope, an odd volume or ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de... | Kathleen Woodward | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de... | Kathleen Woodward | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgri... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of ... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work en... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | | Everyman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | review of Byron, The Age of Bronze | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l... | Philip Ballard | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l... | Philip Ballard | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l... | Philip Ballard | | [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l... | Philip Ballard | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an artic... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Hellenica Chronica | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse... | Philip Ballard | Walter Pater | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse... | Philip Ballard | George Meredith | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse... | Philip Ballard | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse... | Philip Ballard | Richard Le Gallienne | | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal... | Spike Mays | Jonathan Swift | "Gulliver's Travels" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal... | Spike Mays | Daniel Defoe | "Robinson Crusoe" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal... | Spike Mays | Charles Lamb | Tales from Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Harriet Beecher Stowe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar... | Ethel Clark | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free ex... | H.M. Tomlinson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free ex... | H.M. Tomlinson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free ex... | H.M. Tomlinson | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excit... | H.M. Tomlinson | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excit... | H.M. Tomlinson | Thomas Mayne Reid | "The Headless Horseman" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole throug... | Edward Wallace | Anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introd... | Thomas A. Jackson | James George Frazer | "The Golden Bough" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introd... | Thomas A. Jackson | | [Greek myths] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | | [Freudian psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | | [industrial administration] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | [unknown] | [political history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Beatrice and Sidney Webb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Bertrand Russell | Essays in Scepticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler | The Decline of the West | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | [unknown] | [Ancient Greek literature] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | George Bernard Shaw | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jack Common recalled that his mother brought him a secondhand and severely abridged "Life of Johnson" for 1d., and he... | Jack Common | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | William Cobbett | A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Bal... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Ballads | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 May 1800: 'Read Macbeth in the morning ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 29 May 1800: 'In the morning worked in the garden a little, read King ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning. Read Ballads; went to church.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Ballads | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 3 June 1800: 'I worked in the garden before dinner. Read R[ichar]d Sec... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Richard the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plant... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Ballads | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 6 June 1800: 'Sate out of doors reading the whole afternoon...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 27 July 1800: 'In the morning, I read Mr. Knight's Landscape.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Richard Payne Knight | The Landscape: A Didactic Poem in Three Books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Cole... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 1 August 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coler... | Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Seven Sisters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Friedrich von Schiller | Wallenstein (in translation by S. T. Coleridge) | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 23 August 1800: '[after walk to Ambleside] Did not reach home till 7 o... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | To Joanna | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 30 August 1800: 'I read a little of Boswell's Life of Johnson.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 31 August 1800: 'At 11 o'clock [pm] Coleridge came ... We sate and chatt... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | To Joanna | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 September 1800: 'We walked in the wood by the Lake. W. read Joanna, a... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Firgrove | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 4 October 1800: 'A ... rather showery and gusty, morning ... Read a pa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Charles Lamb | Pride's Cure | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 5 October 1800: 'Coleridge read a 2nd time Christabel; we had increasing... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 6 October 1800: 'After tea read The Pedlar.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Southey | Letters from Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christa... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Ruth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christa... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 November 1800: 'Wm. somewhat better [having been suffering from pile... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Point Rash Judgement | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 December 1800: 'A fine morning. I read.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Wordsworth Family | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Wordsworth Family | Bishop Joseph Hall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Mary Hutchinson | ?James Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 16 November 1801: '... [William] is now, at 7 o'clock, reading Spenser.' | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 18 November 1801: 'We sate in the house in the morning reading Spenser.' | Wordsworth Family | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'A rainy morning ... I read a little of Chaucer, prep... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.' | Mary Hutchinson | Samuel Daniel | Musophilus, or a Defence of all Learning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'After tea Wm. read Spenser, now and then a little al... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 30 November 1801: '[after walk with William Wordsworth and Mary Hutchins... | Wordsworth Family | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 2 December 1801: 'I read the Tale of Phoebus and the Crow ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Maunciple's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer a... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 6 December 1801: 'In the afternoon we sate by the fire: I read Chaucer a... | Mary Hutchinson | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochle... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Michael Bruce | Lochleven | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochle... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Life of Michael Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'I read Palamon and Arcite.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 9 December 1801: 'Mary read Bruce.' | Mary Hutchinson | Michael Bruce | Lochleven | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 14 December 1801: 'Sate by the fire in the evening reading.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: '[while Mary Hutchinson walked to Ambleside] I stayed ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'In the afternoon ... I mended Wm.'s stockings while h... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy ta... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prologues from the Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 21 December 1801: 'When we were at Thomas Ashburner's on Sunday Peggy ta... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Man of Law's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 24 December 1801: 'We sate comfortably round the fire in the Evening, ... | Wordsworth Family | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 26 December 1801: 'After tea we sate by the fire comfortably. I read ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Miller's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, about how she spent Saturday, 23 January 1802: '[after walking in cold] O how c... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Descriptive Sketches | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 26 January, 1802: 'A dull morning. I have employed myself in writing th... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 27 January, 1802: 'When we returned from Frank [Baty]'s, Wm. wasted h... | William Wordsworth | | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book XI) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 February, 1802: 'Read Smollet's life.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Robert Anderson | Smollett's Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 February, 1802: 'I read the story of [?] in Wanly [?].' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 6 February, 1802: '... wrote ... after tea, and translated two or thre... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 February, 1802: 'We sate by the fire, and ... read the Pedlar, thinkin... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a li... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a li... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 February, 1802: 'We did a little of Lessing. I attempted a fable, bu... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Fable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 February, 1802: '... we read the first part of the poem [ie The Pr... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Life of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Fletcher | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ..... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | To Penshurst | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Recluse | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. I ate a little bit of ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | To Penshurst | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: '[after going on walk] I got tea when I reached home,... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | [German text/s] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 February, 1802: 'I got tea when I reached home [after walk], and then... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | [German text/s] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 22 February, 1802: ' ... Mr. Simpson came in. Wm. began to read Peter B... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: '... after dinner read German Grammar.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... Willia... | William Wordsworth | Bishop Joseph Hall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 25 February, 1802: 'I reached home [from walk] just before dark ... go... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Essay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner W... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner W... | William Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'After Tea I worked and read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beauti... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'We sate by the fire in the evening, and read The Pedlar ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a litt... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a litt... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 12 March 1802: ' ... I read the remainder of Lessing.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | unknown | Print: Book |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 March 1802: ' After tea I read to William that account of the littl... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 March 1802: 'Mr. Simpson came in just as [William Wordsworth] was fin... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Butterfly (and other poems) | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.' | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 March 1802: 'We sate reading the poems, and I read a little German.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | | German text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 16 March 1802: 'After dinner I read him [William Wordsworth] to sleep. ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'I went and sate with W. and walked backwards and forw... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'After dinner we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth] made... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: '... we sate a while ... [in the orchard]. I left ...... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 20 March 1802: 'After tea Wm. read The Pedlar.' | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Pedlar | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'After dinner ... I read German ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | German text/s | Print: Book |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... I... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 18 April 1802: 'I went to drink tea at Luff's ... William met me at Ryda... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | The Robin and the Butterfly | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Adam Ferguson | Life of Ferguson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: 'I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalam... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | Prothalamium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dor... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dor... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Lover's Complaint | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 May 1802, 'When we came in [from evening walk to Tail End] we found ... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'We sowed the Scarlet Beans in the orchard, and read Henry... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'Read in the Review.' | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 15 May 1802, 'It is now 1/2 past 10 ... A very cold and chearless morn... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milt... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings o... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | John Logan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings o... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | unknown | Life of John Logan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale befo... | Dorothy Wordsworth | | Mother Hubbard's Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 16 June 1802, 'I read the first Canto of the Fairy Queen to William.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 19 June 1802, 'I sate up a while after William ... I read Churchill's ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Charles Churchill | The Rosciad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Lik... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 23 June 1802, 'It is now 20 minutes past 10 -- a sunshiny morning. I... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 1 July 1802, 'In the evening ... we had a nice walk, and afterwards sa... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...' | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, describing how hours following William Wordsworth's marriage to Mary Hutchinson... | Wordsworth Family | | verse epitaph | Print: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their a... | ?John Stoddart | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 8 November 1802: 'I have read one canto of Ariosto today.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | Elegiac Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Mary read the Prologue to Chaucer's tales to me in the morning.' | Mary Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prologue to The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 11 January 1803: 'Before tea I sate 2 hours in the parlour. Read part of The K... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbr... | [Miss] Newton | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this... | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped i... | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one... | Anne Lister | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have la... | Anne Lister | Theodore Hook | Sayings and Doings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several othe... | Anne Lister | | Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.' | Anne Lister | Henry Moore | Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79... | Anne Lister | Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin | Amelie Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a p... | Anne Lister | Chateaubriand | Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi | |
| 1800-1849 | [ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I rea... | Anne Lister | | Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele | Anne Lister | Richard Polwhele | Sermons: a new volume | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as ... | Anne Lister | Lucian | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3. | Anne Lister | | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetr... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | The Loves of the Angels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I... | Anne Lister | | Retrospective Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting t... | Anne Lister | Jane Marcet | Conversations on Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How... | Anne Lister | William Cowper | Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cot... | Anne Lister | Sophie Cottin | Amelie Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read ... | Anne Lister | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye.... | Anne Lister | J. B. Bernard | Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words w... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edit... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woma... | Anne Lister | John Gregory | A Father's Legacy to His Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the... | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Grecian History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My uncle has got the life of Doctor Beattie from the library [Halifax Subscription library?], I have not had time to r... | Samuel Lister | Alexander Bower | An Account of the Life of James Beattie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with... | Anne Lister | Alexander Hunter | Georgical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed m... | Anne Cust | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra... | Anne Lister | John Bonnycastle | An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr | |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra' | Anne Lister | Sophlocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole. | Anne Lister | Joseph Hoole | sermons on several important practical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...]. | Anne Lister | | ['Medical Mss'] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers... | Anne Lister | | The Bay of Biscay | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers... | Anne Lister | | Said Eve unto Adam | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 Jan... | Anne Lister | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gend... | Anne Lister | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheet... | Anne Lister | | Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and poli | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to th... | Anne Lister | Colonel Francis Hall | Travels in France in 1818 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...] | Anne Lister | | Annals of philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a ... | Anne Lister | Sir Walter Scott | The Monastery. A romance | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | Richard Hakluyt | Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | Joseph Addison | [probably The Spectator] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume? |
| 1800-1849 | from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read ... | Anne Lister | August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Leontine de Blondheim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | n/a | Oxford English Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | John Keats | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Ivan Turgenev | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Victor-Marie Hugo | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's. | Anne Lister | Archibald Alison | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerab... | Anne Lister | Desmosthenes | All the Orations of Demosthenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | The principle of mechanics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore..... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh or 'Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect... | Anne Lister | Dr Scudamore | Lectures on physiology | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel consi... | Anne Lister | Thomas Leland | All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid | Anne Lister | Euclid | The Elements | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to... | Anne Lister | Euclid | The Elements | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermo... | Anne Lister | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinte... | Anne Lister | William Spence | Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Rev. Richard H. Barham | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Sir Walter Scott | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Mrs Meek | Ellesmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and L... | Max Beerbohm | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and L... | Max Beerbohm | Edward Lear | Book of Nonsense | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Max] Beerbohm ... [declared] to Will Rothenstein that he had read ... only Thackeray's The Four Georges (1860) and L... | Max Beerbohm | Oscar Wilde | Intentions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... when stuck in '" dismal dirty inn at Halifax" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made... | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Alfred Lord Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | George Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the f... | Charles H. Reilly | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Sir Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Benjamin Disraeli | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Edward Bulwer Lytton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Samuel Johnson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Joseph Addison | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Richard Steele | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | James Russell Lowell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Bronte | unknown | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | '... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library... | William Robertson Nicoll | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Herbert Spencer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Thomas Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Hugh Conway | Called Back | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Fergus Hume | The Mystery of the Hansom Cab | Print: Unknown |
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1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Mary Braddon | [stories] | Print: Unknown |
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1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Mrs Henry Wood | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
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1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Ouida [pseud] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead ... | George Gissing | Hall Caine | The Manxman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most... | Wiliam Ewart Gladstone | Dr Langer | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most... | Wiliam Ewart Gladstone | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most... | Wiliam Ewart Gladstone | | [novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Captain Marryat | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "The son of a shipwright, [Hall] Caine had been largely dependent upon public sources [in particuarly the Free Library... | Hall Caine | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket fi... | Neville Cardus | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | "[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, be... | Willie anon | Charles Mackay (ed) | A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think o... | Bruce Cummings | | Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive... | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | | Chambers's Encyclopedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..." | George Bernard Shaw | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... | Thomas Burke | | T. P.'s Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | Sir Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | George Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | Thomas Hardy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that ... | Holbrook Jackson | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M... | Neville Cardus | J. M. Robertson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a cop... | Neville Cardus | Samuel Butler | Note Books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Week... | [a Lancashire man] anon | | The British Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; a... | Thomas Burke | | The Bookman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 t... | Anne Lister | Sophocles | Philoctetes | |
| 1800-1849 | Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a lit... | Anne Lister | | The Leeds Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave... | Anne Lister | | '2 or 3 old papers' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev... | Anne Lister | James Boswell | The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Sal... | Anne Lister | Cicero | On/the book of old age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of... | Anne Lister | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writ... | Anne Lister | Joseph Spence | Polymetics Abridged | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading Fr... | Anne Lister | | 'Paris guide' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs N... | Anne Lister | | 'Old Maids' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de... | Anne Lister | | European Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my sp... | Anne Lister | David Henry Urquhart | Commentaries on classical learning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme ... | Anne Lister | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till ... | Anne Lister | Anne Lister | Journal | Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. ... | Anne Lister | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account o... | Anne Lister | John Stewart | Collections and recollections | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more partic... | Anne Lister | | The art of employing time to the greatest advantage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Instit... | Anne Lister | John Ash | Grammatical Institutes | Print: Book |
| | Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen... | Anne Lister | By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton | Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The complaint, or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, afte... | Anne Lister | | | Print: text printed on gravestonesUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold ... | Miss Browne | George Gordon Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron ... | Anne Lister | | The Globe and Traveller | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account... | Anne Lister | Anne Lister | Journal | Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal |
| 1800-1849 | 'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics ... | Anne Lister | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a reclu... | Thomas Hardy | Violet Hunt | White Rose of Withered Leaf | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...' | George Saintsbury | Karl Marx | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'. | Walt Whitman | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest t... | William Robertson Nicoll | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.' | William Robertson Nicoll | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all ... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart o... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ... | Hugh Walpole | various | The Abbotsford Correspondence | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherin... | Hugh Walpole | Walter Scott | Katherine Christian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Walter Scott | Waverley Novels (12) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | Valois cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | D'Artagnan cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Honore de Balzac | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Stor... | George Saintsbury | Walter Scott | Wandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet) | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | '... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."' | Andrew Lang | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to hi... | Sir Edward Fry | John Gibson Lockhart | Life of Scott | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him ... | Mariabella Fry | John Gibson Lockhart | Life of Scott | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", ... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", ... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", ... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral processio... | Newman Flower | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favou... | Ernest Raymond | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at,... | Anne Lutton | | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I g... | Anne Lutton | | ['novels'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.' | Alan Alexander Milne | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language... | Anne Lutton | | ['Roman Classics'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on... | Anne Lutton | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. | Anne Lutton | | ['Greek Grammar'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea... | Andrew Lang | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea... | Andrew Lang | Pinnock | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M... | Anne Lutton | Maria Edgeworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M... | Anne Lutton | | [old-school novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).' | Joseph Conrad | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | John Adams | The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi... | Gordon Hewart | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | J.J. Barthelemy | Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England from the Earliest Times... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | John Wesley | Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and th... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered fro... | Anne Lutton | William Lilly | Lilly's Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics an... | Anne Lutton | Isaac Barrow | Euclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books Compend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...' | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte... | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great bless... | Anne Lutton | Hester Ann Rogers | Spiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the Experi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduous... | Francis Herbert Bradley | Elinor Glyn | Halcyone | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what... | Anne Lutton | | 'Scriptures' | Print: Book |
| | My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what... | | | 'Scriptures' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on le... | Cardinal John Henry Newman | Anthony Trollope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the reso... | A Young Ploughman | | [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b | Manuscript: Sheet |
| | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of ... | Henry James | Anthony Trollope | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he redi... | James Matthew Barrie | Anthony Trollope | unknown | Print: Book |
| | 'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Anthony Trollope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh... | Douglas Jerrold | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Annette R. Federico notes anecdote in Kent Carr's 1901 biography of Marie Corelli, in which it is reported that New Ze... | New Zealand and Australian soldiers | Marie Corelli | The Soul of Lilith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: "Now to tell ... | | Marie Corelli | The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell)... | Thompson Family | Johann David Wyss | The Swiss Family Robinson | Print: Book |
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'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading ... | Thomas Thompson | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57] ... guided by ... [their fath... | Thompson Family | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | John Keats | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | Alfred Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | Alfred Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | John Keats | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Alfred Baker Strettell | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | George Eliot | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Edward Bulwer Lytton | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | William Makepeace Thackeray | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot... | Alice Thompson | Nathaniel Hawthorne | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love... | Alice Thompson | unknown | Fatima | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.' | Alice Thompson | Aristotle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | John Keats | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve... | Alice Thompson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown .... | Thomas Thompson | Alice Thompson | unknown poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from ... | 'a Manchester boy' | n/a | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Michael Ballantyne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | George Alfred Henty | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Richard Henry Dana | Two Years Before the Mast | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | David Livingstone | [Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Fridtjof Nansen | [Travels - probably 'Farthest North'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Matthew Peary | [Travels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Falcon Scott | [Travels in the Antarctic] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Wiliam Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Masefield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | John Bull's Other Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Doctor's Dilemma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Devil's Disciple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | You Never Can Tell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Socialism and Superior Brains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | An Unsocial Socialist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Irrational Knot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Galsworthy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Enoch Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Industrial Democracy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Oliver Joseph Lodge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Edward Carpenter | Towards Democracy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Edward Carpenter | The Intermediate Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Atkinson Hobson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alfred Marshall | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | [unknown] | [basic economics textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | anon | The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | [unknown] | [various history and biography] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Mark Twain | The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Emmusska, Baroness Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Louisa May Alcott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | David Livingstone | [Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Darwin | [probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Song and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell, later Baron Shinwell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la... | Stan Dickens | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's ... | Mary Bertenshaw | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James ... | Joseph Barker | Helkiah Crooke | [medical folio] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosi... | Tom Barclay | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosi... | Tom Barclay | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosi... | Tom Barclay | Juvenal | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosi... | Tom Barclay | Catullus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news... | Allen Clark | [unknown] | [physiology textbooks] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news... | Allen Clarke | Francois Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady w... | Harry Dorrell | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | A.J. Cronin | Hatter's Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college... | Margaret Wharton | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ... | Edna Bold | [unknown] | [medical book] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ... | Edna Bold | John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up ... | Margaret Oliphant | Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was a... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Washington Irving | Life of Columbus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Nicholas Soyer | The Art of Paper Bag Cookery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Hall Caine | The Bondman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. Th... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marie Corelli | Free Opinions | Print: Book, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marie Corelli | Master Christain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Cullen Bryant | Thanatopsis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Ralph Waldo Trine | In Tune with the Infinite | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "... | Herbert Hensley Henson | Robert Browning | A Death in the Desert | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm w... | school class at Weymouth College | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 18... | Grant Duff | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshi... | Violet Markham | John Ruskin | Unto This Last | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to liv... | Theodore Watts-Dunton | Theodore Watts-Dunton | poems | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed throu... | | George Meredith | Novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, ... | Asquith Family | Rupert Brooke | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Only yesterday morning he [Cyril Oliphant] was well enough to read out to me [Francis Oliphant] a little notice of hi... | Cyril Oliphant | | Notice of Cyril Oliphant's 'De Musset' | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodica... | S.P. Oliver | | Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the ... | S.P. Oliver | Puigre | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie... | S.P. Oliver | Jas (James) Hastie | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the ... | S.P. Oliver | Andrew Lang | Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar... | Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar... | Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cab... | Sir Edward Grey | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Where Love and Friendship Dwelt" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 18... | Marie Belloc | unknown | Contemporary French novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read (Dilke's?) notice in the "Athenaeum", this day, on Sir Stafford Northcote? Andrew Lang had a most diff... | S.P. Oliver | Dilke | Article on Sir Stafford Northcote in the Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husba... | Wilfrid Blunt | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...' | H. G. Wells | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began s... | Mrs Humphrey Ward | unknown | [Greek text/s] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Blackwood, I see in "The Times" that you were present at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund." | | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bour... | Henry James | Rudyard Kipling | McAndrew's Hymn | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading with interest today the last article in the current number of "Blackwood", entitled "The Two Blig... | P.L. Park | | 'The Two Blights in Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine, Nov 1890 | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he ... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Red Cotton Nightcap Country | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Reade | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His tar... | Algernon Swinburne | Algernon Swinburne | Les Noyades | |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of t... | Algernon Swinburne | Algernon Swinburne | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his ... | William Morris | William Morris | The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems) | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and act... | Jennet Pryce | Gardiner | Great Civil War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1880 Tennyson attempted to interest Henry Irving in his play "The Cup" ... [he] "read in a monotone, rumbling on a... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Cup | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1876 Aubrey de Vere aranged for Alice Thompson ... and her sister Elizabeth a visit to [Tennyson at] Aldworth ... ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Passing of Arthur | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - '... | Peter Cunningham | | A Collection of Fifty Old Plays | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [over] a weekend at Aldworth ... [Margot Tennant] told Tennyson how very handsome he was, and, after his after-d... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.' | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.' | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.' | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...' | Newman Flower | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a write... | Thomas Burke | George Gissing | New Grub Street | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington | Unknown |
| | '"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a ... | | Sir Edwin Arnold | The Light of Asia | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively ... | Thomas Hardy | William Watson | Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' ... | Peter Cunningham | | 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of collected plays] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to hi... | William Ewart Gladstone | William Watson | Poems | Print: Book |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any ... | Anon | Peter Cunningham | Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson | Manuscript: Pamphlet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- th... | Walter Raleigh | Christina Rossetti | poems | Print: Book |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in penci... | Anon | | A Proposal | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of lan... | Arthur Benson | Robert Bridges | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home... | William Butler Yeats | Rabindranath Tagore | Poems from Gitanjali: Song Offerings | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarte... | John Galt | Thomas Dunham Whitaker | Galt's Life of Cardinal Wolsey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disa... | Arnold Bennett | Herbert Spencer | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assist... | Thomas Hardy | Lady Grove | The Social Fetich | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in th... | William Gladstone | various | A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | [unknown] | [reports on education in Prussia] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | Thomas Huxley | Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | [unknown] | [romantic fiction] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed... | Catherine Hutton | | Review of The Miser Married | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri... | Millicent Duchess of Sutherland | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri... | Millicent Duchess of Sutherland | Marie Corelli | Barabbas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed... | Catherine Hutton | | Review of The Miser Married | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond Ma... | Wilfrid Meynell | George Meredith | Modern Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Diary of Wilfrid Blunt, 22 June 1894: ' ... gave a dinner at Mount Street to Lady Granby, Lucy Smith, [Constant] d'Est... | Wilfrid Blunt and guests | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Mrs Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt]... | Francis Thompson | | The Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Catherine Hutton | The Welsh Mountaineer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Catherine Hutton | Oakwood Hall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Catherine Hutton | The Miser Married | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...' | Elinor Glyn | George MacDonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...' | Walter Besant | [unknown] | [American literature] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)' | Constance Smedley | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Expre... | R.E. Prothero | | International Express Train Co monthly guide | |
| 1850-1899 | 'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where... | R.E. Prothero | Ovid | Tristia IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The last Quarterly contained a dishonest and offensive attack upon me by an American journalist, whom I dimly remembe... | J.E.C. Bodley | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bett... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | The Bettesworth Book | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.' | Algernon Cecil | | Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I am writing to you, it wd, I feel, be disingenuous in me if I did not tell you how fully I share the surprise and... | J.C. Collins | | Article on Stephen Phillips in the Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Mr. Prothero, Did you see the Morning Post of last Wednesday or Thursday? The headlines ran: "British Spy in the... | J.M. de Beaufort | | Article in the Morning Post entitled 'British Spy in the Kiel Canal' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and san... | John Bailey | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English n... | Donald Brown | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English n... | | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English n... | W.A. Pool | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I reg... | Valentine Chirol | | Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in the Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, ... | J.M. de Beaufort | Curtin | The Times (series of articles) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular. | John Buchan | Arnold Bennett | The Man from the North | Manuscript: Sheet, proofs |
| 1850-1899 | He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into ... | Arnold Bennett | Edmund de Goncourt | Journals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, wh... | John Ruskin | Stephane-Felicite de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both bec... | John Ruskin | Stephane-Felicite de Genlis | unknown | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'. | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Helen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | The Political Economy of Art | Print: Book |
| | Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the stor... | John Ruskin | | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's las... | John Ruskin | Lord John Russell | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [G... | John Ruskin | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death ... | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walte... | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Cestus of Aglaia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junctio... | John Ruskin | Horace Benedict de Saussure | Voyages dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the s... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation ... | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tenny... | Mrs Hughes | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nea... | M.V, Hughes | anon | A Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Davila | ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Davila | ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Henry David Thoreau | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again unde... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was... | Constance Smedley | James Russell Lowell | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " reading Rousseau to my Sally." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | "When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at A... | Mrs Humphrey Ward | Mrs Humphrey Ward | Canadian Born | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally. | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa a... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Samuel Richardson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Petrarch | Sonatto di Petrarca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Finished The Tatler" | Lady Eleanor Butler | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | " began the Spectator" | Lady Eleanor Butler | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | " Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertine... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Maintenon | Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Maintenon | Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Swinburne | Travels through Spain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conver... | May Sinclair | unknown | article | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us. | Lady Eleanor Butler | A.R. Lesage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse." | Lady Eleanor Butler | | Tab. de la Suisse | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Sherard on Oscar Wilde's work as a lecturer, in Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (1902; 1908) 87... | Robert Sherard | | advertisements for Oscar Wilde's lectures | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Metterniche | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Corneille | Theatro du Grand Corneilles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the jou... | Oscar Wilde | | Reise-Bilder | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Racine | Theatro et oevres de Racine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Dante | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the jou... | Oscar Wilde | | Pocket German dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Pietro Metastasio | opera (16 Tom) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Gilpin | Northern Tour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Thomas Gray | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel" | Sarah Ponsonby | | La Morte D'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots'... | | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and... | William Tayler | | Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... '... | Henry James | H. Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of... | | unknown | Princess Novelette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia... | Mary Gladstone | Julia Kavanagh | Natalie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...' | Mary Gladstone | Julia Kavanagh | Adele | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (... | William Ewart Gladstone | Julia Kavanagh | Natalie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Ly... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room f... | Mrs Swan | Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]." | William Ewart Gladstone | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'. | Joseph Hunter | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very p... | Joseph Hunter | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Doctor's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The S... | Rudyard Kipling | | The Story-Teller | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | | cheap popular fiction | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | Robert Burns | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | Jeffrey Farnol | The Amateur Gentleman | Print: Book |
| | Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I aske... | Miss Garvice | Stephen Crane | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Print: Book |
| | Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I aske... | Charles Garvice | Stephen Crane | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests ... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he coul... | Hall Caine | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapeg... | William Ewart Gladstone | Hall Caine | The Scapegoat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's T... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The King's Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Ann Radcliffe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Matthew Gregory Lewis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver wan... | Anna Blunden | John Ruskin | The Elements of Drawing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many ... | John Ruskin | Aubrey Thomas de Vere | | Unknown |
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1850-1899 | Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ... | John Ruskin | Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ... | Anna Blunden | Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browining | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from... | Anna Blunden | Elizabeth Barrett Browining | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." | John Ruskin | John Burnet | [on composition] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the ti... | Anna Blunden | John Ruskin | Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds | |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - F... | John Ruskin | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; ... | John Heaton | John Ruskin | The Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H53, January 1857
"But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he ... | John Ruskin | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy legends and Tales | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her ... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems, including "Drama of Exile" | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Ros... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is n... | John Ruskin | Plato | Death of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree wi... | John Ruskin | | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Mod... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - wh... | John Ruskin | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor." | John Ruskin | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - ... | John Ruskin | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Burden of Nineveh | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be usel... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the towe... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volu... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters III | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butter... | John Ruskin | Ellen Heaton | Tales | Manuscript: Unpublished short tales |
| 1600-1699 | "Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin... | Samuel Pepys | Dutch Ambassador | [a speech] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | "Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I ... | Samuel Pepys | | [ballad] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | "This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the f... | Samuel Pepys | | Declaration of Breda | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill |
| 1900-1945 | 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and... | Leslie Stephen | | [an article on Shakespeare] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | . . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Tow... | George Sturt | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat toget... | Leslie Stephen | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, in this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, ... | Leslie Stephen | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, ... | Leslie Stephen | | [a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, ... | Leslie Stephen | | [a list in Latin of benefactors] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, ... | Leslie Stephen | | the Te Deum | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which ... | Leslie Stephen | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it m... | Leslie Stephen | | Christie's Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read i... | Leslie Stephen | W Hepworth Dixon | New America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find ... | Leslie Stephen | | [Essays on Reform] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "You say you have been reading some French novels lately." | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | | [Some French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard th... | Leslie Stephen | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Mus... | Leslie Stephen | | [Some French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything sati... | Margaret Oliphant | George Eliot | Felix Holt the Radical | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offeri... | Margaret Oliphant | | [Advertisement of works by Lamartine] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am a... | Margaret Oliphant | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'. | Margaret Oliphant | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as... | Margaret Oliphant | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ... | Margaret Oliphant | Swinburne | Threnody | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'. | Margaret Oliphant | | [Italian] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one... | Margaret Oliphant | Walter Scott | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I tho... | Margaret Oliphant | R.T. Davison | Life of Archibald Campbell Tait | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to t... | Margaret Oliphant | John Addington Symonds | Life of Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a ... | Robert Macpherson | Robert Macpherson | | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in th... | Francis Wilson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in th... | Willie Wilson | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeate... | William Edmonstoune Ayton | William Edmonstoune Ayton | The Execution of Montrose | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .' | [a cab driver] anon | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." | Harriet Stephen | George Barnett Smith | The Works of Thackeray | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." | Ann Thackeray | George Barnett Smith | The Works of Thackeray | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets h... | Leslie Stephen | James Russell Lowell | Agassiz | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan." | Leslie Stephen | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ordered South | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no co... | Leslie Stephen | Frederick Denison Maurice | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as... | Leslie Stephen | Frederick Denison Maurice | | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
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1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
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1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
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1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | John Milton | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a cop... | Francis Jeffrey | Margaret Oliphant | Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of ... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Caird | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' | Margaret Oliphant | | Athenaeum | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' | Margaret Oliphant | unknown | Review of Adam Bede | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerab... | Frank Oliphant | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton | St Stephen's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Leg... | Maggie Oliphant | A.B. Jameson | Legends of the Saints | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular... | John Partridge | | The Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...]... | Margaret Oliphant | R.H. Story | | Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possi... | Margaret Oliphant | A.W. Kinglake | Invasion of the Crimea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for author... | Edmund Gosse | | Lesson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall... | Newman Flower | Hall Caine | The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westm... | | Marie Corelli | Barabbas | Print: Book |
| | 'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always ... | Joseph Parker | Marie Corelli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his... | | Marie Corelli | Holy Orders | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of ... | G. H. Hardy | Marie Corelli | Ardath | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corell... | Rupert Brooke | Marie Corelli | The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plo... | Harry and Mary Drew | Marie Corelli | Vendetta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Marie Corelli | A Romance of Two Worlds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Marie Corelli | Ardath | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I c... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Corelli | ? The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of Yo... | Edward Prince of Wales | Marie Corelli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you... | Margaret Oliphant | David Wingate | My Little Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of Yo... | George Duke of York | Marie Corelli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..." | Gilbert Frankau | Nat Gould | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & t... | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| | "For [Nat] Gould, the highest commendation of his 'art' came ... when Walter Home, the Routledge's representative who ... | Walter Home | Nat Gould | The Double Event | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that li... | Katherine Mansfield | Louis Vintras | The Silver Net | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was ... | Andrew Lang | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners... | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and con... | Queen Victoria | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do ple... | Katherine Mansfield | E.F. Benson | Sheaves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' | Katherine Mansfield | Stendhal | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' | Katherine Mansfield | Stendhal | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget... | Queen Victoria | Edna Lyall | Donovan: A Modern Englishman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget... | Princess Beatrice | Edna Lyall | We Two | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...' | Ruth Baily | Edna Lyall | We Two | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...' | Ruth Baily | Edna Lyall | Donovan: A Modern Englishman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir b... | Katherine Mansfield | Edward Morike | Erinerung - an C.N. | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of ... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play... | A. C. Tait | Benjamin Disraeli | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in le... | Henry James | George Meredith | Lord Ormont and his Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my m... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the... | Katherine Mansfield | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | [novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbe... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel de Montaigne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Moliere [pseud] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.' | Katherine Mansfield | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | George Meredith | Modern Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very inter... | Katherine Mansfield | Henry James | Confidence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On ... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "... | Katherine Mansfield | Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle ... | Lady Desborough | George Meredith | poem | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'. | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. | Katherine Mansfield | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so ang... | Violet Asquith | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't... | Katherine Mansfield | Colette | L'Entrave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't... | Katherine Mansfield | Colette | L'Entrave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and hum... | Katherine Mansfield | William Temple | Miscellanea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" ... | Katherine Mansfield | Dorothy Wordsworth | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts ... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | n/a | [sexual grafitti] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1900-1945 | 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | n/a | [scandalous news stories in local press] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | n/a | Lloyd's Weekly News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | n/a | The Song of Solomon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | [unknown] | [old plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speec... | Katherine Mansfield | Lloyd George | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But i... | Katherine Mansfield | E.M. Forster | Howard's End | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | William Booth | In Darkest England and the Way Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ... | Katherine Mansfield | Anton Chekhov | Geneva | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ... | Katherine Mansfield | Anton Chekhov | Hamilton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | Richard Quain | Dictionary of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | n/a | Leviticus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | The Possessed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in ... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker T... | Thomas Bell | Edward Bliss Foote | Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ... | Ethel Mannin | [unknown] | [home medical books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ... | Ethel Mannin | Sigmund Freud | [unknown-works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ... | Ethel Mannin | n/a | [encyclopaedias] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ... | Ethel Mannin | n/a | Song of Solomon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ... | Ethel Mannin | n/a | Genesis (story of Jacob and Esau) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class gi... | John Edmonds | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Marie Stopes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Havelock Ellis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Re... | Ruth Slate | Leo Tolstoy | Resurrection | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Re... | Ruth Slate | Auguste Forel | Sexual Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Re... | Ruth Slate | Christabel Pankhurst | The Great Scourge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Re... | Ruth Slate | | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Re... | Ruth Slate | | Freewoman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machi... | Eva Slawson | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machi... | Eva Slawson | Edward Carpenter | Love's Coming of Age | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machi... | Eva Slawson | Herbert George Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machi... | Eva Slawson | Herbert George Wells | Ann Veronica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birt... | Gladys Teal | Marie Stopes | [book on birth control] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli... | Margaret Powell | Marie Stopes | [book on sex] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli... | Margaret Powell | Havelock Ellis | [book on sex] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ell... | Margaret Powell | | Kama Sutra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Bertrand Russell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' | Arnold Bennett | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read ... | C.H. Rolph | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read ... | C.H. Rolph | | The Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read ... | C.H. Rolph | | Referee | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read ... | C.H. Rolph | | John Bull Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledge... | Arnold Bennett | Gaboriau | [detective fiction] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 49 (late November 1856)
?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860)
?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is ... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems before Congress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860)
?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems before Congress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861)
?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?
| John Ruskin | William Morris | The Defence of Guenevere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Johann von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846
?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper o... | Ellen Heaton | Rebecca Hey | The Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the Woods (1837) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou... | Leslie Stephen | | The Spectator | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou... | Leslie Stephen | | The Pall Mall | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou... | Leslie Stephen | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou... | Leslie Stephen | | The World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this ni... | Leslie Stephen | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stoma... | Leslie Stephen | Frederick Farrar | The Life of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; bu... | Leslie Stephen | William Ernest Henley | Miss Grant | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th centu... | Leslie Stephen | | [18th and 19th century sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are suc... | Leslie Stephen | James Russell Lowell | Pictures from Appledore | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiri... | Leslie Stephen | Omar Khayyam | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...' | King Kalakava | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...' | Alan Alexander Milne | Norman Angell | The Great Illusion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, am... | Robert Bridges | Heinrich Heine | lyric poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss... | James Elroy Flecker | anon | Land and Water | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. F... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher | A School History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long t... | Walter Besant | Rudyard Kipling | The Light that Failed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she rea... | Kathleen Bruce | H. G. Wells | God the Invisible King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter ... | George Gissing | George Moore | Esther Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a pa... | Aubrey Hicks | | Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illust... | Thomas Hardy | Rider Haggard | Eric Brighteyes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that portion where he rela... | W. H. Hudson | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence He... | Thomas Hardy | John Galsworthy | The Man of Property | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son .... | Florence Murray | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.' | Arnold Bennett | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| | 'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in h... | Bernard Law Montgomery | Guy Thorne | When it was Dark | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".' | George Bernard Shaw | St Paul | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' | George Bernard Shaw | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' | George Bernard Shaw | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1... | George Bernard Shaw | Henry James | The Saloon | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bou... | Thomas Hardy | Stephen Phillips | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe." | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel... | Charles Kingsley | Charlotte M. Yonge | Heartsease | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- nev... | Violet Asquith | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | John Henry Newman | Loss and Gain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsm... | Mrs Humphry Ward | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded... | Mary Augusta Ward | J. Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was publishe... | Janet Courtney | J. Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa... | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa... | William Ewart Gladstone | Emile Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...' | William Ewart Gladstone | Mrs Humphry Ward | The History of David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be... | Arnold Bennett | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to m... | Leslie Stephen | John Morley | On Compromise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Milner | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Xenophon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dis... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism,... | Leslie Stephen | W E Gladstone | Ritualism and Ritual | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism,... | Leslie Stephen | Matthew Arnold | Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel." | Leslie Stephen | | [Novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Fenelon | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as describ... | Leslie Stephen | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be pa... | Leslie Stephen | Anne Bronte | Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Boccacio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser ... | Leslie Stephen | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be h... | Leslie Stephen | Matthew Arnold | Literature and Dogma (possibly) | Manuscript: proofs of article |
| 1850-1899 | We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance." | Leslie Stephen | Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Poet at the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh... | Leslie Stephen | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh... | Leslie Stephen | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t... | Leslie Stephen | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t... | Leslie Stephen | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t... | Leslie Stephen | Lowell | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me pe... | Leslie Stephen | George Sand | Les maitres Sonneurs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I a... | Leslie Stephen | William Ernest Henley | Hospital Sonnets | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I a... | Leslie Stephen | William Ernest Henley | Children: Private Ward | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of ... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive or... | Edmund Gosse | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus ... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permane... | Edmund Gosse | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanen... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my ste... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely ... | Edmund Gosse | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Que... | Edmund Gosse | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for t... | Edmund Gosse | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot." | Leslie Stephen | Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Lucile | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk o... | Edmund Gosse | Robert Southey | Works (poetical?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of... | Edmund Gosse | F.T Palgrave | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Ne... | Leslie Stephen | | [biographies] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more... | Leslie Stephen | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and t... | Edmund Gosse | | Greek New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since th... | Edmund Gosse | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amia... | Leslie Stephen | [a thief] | [comic poem] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -s... | Edmund Gosse | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained ... | Leslie Stephen | | ["The Bear Book"] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I someti... | Leslie Stephen | | The Latterday Pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | "I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start." | Leslie Stephen | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked ... | Leslie Stephen | Alfred Tennyson | In the Valley of the Cauteretz | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of min... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | Fors [Clavigera] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno... | Leslie Stephen | Alphonse Daudet | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno... | Leslie Stephen | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly." | Leslie Stephen | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy ... | Leslie Stephen | M.G. Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even... | Leslie Stephen | | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but w... | Leslie Stephen | E. E. Hale | James Russell Lowell and his friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and e... | Leslie Stephen | William James | The varieties of religious experience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old student... | Leslie Stephen | | Proceedings of the PBK | Print: Proceedings |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old student... | Leslie Stephen | Richard Watson Gilder | [poem] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev... | Leslie Stephen | Richard Grant White | [on Copyright] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev... | Leslie Stephen | Various | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev... | Leslie Stephen | Richard Grant White | Washington Adams | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say t... | Leslie Stephen | Henry Sidgwick | Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ... | Leslie Stephen | Edmund Gosse | Life of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ... | Leslie Stephen | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doin... | Kate Perugini | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ?... | Leslie Stephen | Chauncey Wright | Philosophical Discussions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my... | Leslie Stephen | Various | Saturday Review, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi... | Leslie Stephen | G. B. Smith | The Brontes | Manuscript: article |
| 1850-1899 | 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi... | Leslie Stephen | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi... | Leslie Stephen | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.' | Leslie Stephen | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.' | Leslie Stephen | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what ... | Leslie Stephen | John Henry Newman | An essay in aid of a grammar of assent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to ... | Leslie Stephen | J.F. Stephen | Pall Mall Gazette, articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i... | Leslie Stephen | unknown | [French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i... | Leslie Stephen | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i... | Leslie Stephen | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...' | Edith Sitwell | Edith Sitwell | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in ... | Leslie Stephen | William Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Carlyle | Shooting Niagara | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy t... | Leslie Stephen | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Aquinas | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance o... | Leslie Stephen | Herbert Fisher | Studies in Napoleonic statesmanship: Germany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I fin... | Leslie Stephen | George Eliot | Romola | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain... | Leslie Stephen | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed." | Leslie Stephen | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | Far from the madding crowd | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ... | Leslie Stephen | Thomas Hardy | The Wessex Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I ca... | Leslie Stephen | Herbert Fisher | The Medieval Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but see... | Leslie Stephen | Benjamin Jowett | Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the... | Leslie Stephen | F. W. Maitland | History of English Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been John... | Leslie Stephen | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "World... | Leslie Stephen | Lucy Clifford | Love letters of a worldly woman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[ia... | Leslie Stephen | | [a biography] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better ... | Leslie Stephen | James Russell Lowell | Democracy and other addresses | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what... | Leslie Stephen | Anne Isabella Ritchie | 'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB) | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & ... | Leslie Stephen | James A. Froude | Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 1834-1881 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along sl... | Leslie Stephen | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bri... | Leslie Stephen | Plato | Protagorus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind ... | Leslie Stephen | Sir Alfred Lyall | Eastern Studies, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I... | Leslie Stephen | Sir Alfred Lyall | Verses written in India | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I... | anon | Sir Alfred Lyall | Verses written in India | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the... | Leslie Stephen | A. J. Balfour | Foundations of Belief | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Another book, by the way, worth a glance is a collection of old S. T. Coleridge?s letters. I have had to write the be... | Leslie Stephen | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to lea... | Leslie Stephen | George Santayana | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went ... | Leslie Stephen | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as w... | Leslie Stephen | F W Maitland | History of English Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. T... | Leslie Stephen | Swift | sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly be... | Leslie Stephen | John Robert Seeley | Ecce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus Christ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmilla... | Leslie Stephen | Robert Louis Stevenson | article on Victor Hugo | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel... | Leslie Stephen | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel... | Leslie Stephen | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel... | Leslie Stephen | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be... | Leslie Stephen | Matthew Arnold | Letters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. Sh... | Leslie Stephen | Margaret Veley | Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a c... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Inchbald | A Simple Story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottages of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of P... | Maria Edgeworth | Vittorio Alfieri | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provo... | Maria Edgeworth | Germaine De Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William ... | Maria Edgeworth | Sir William Jones | Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Sargent | The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong a... | Maria Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Wilkins | Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a... | Charles Robert Maturin | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion t... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Belinda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Comic Dramas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost f... | Charles Robert Maturin | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, a... | Charles Robert Maturin | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside a... | Charles Robert Maturin | Richard Cumberland | Arundel | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the bes... | Charles Robert Maturin | Clara Reeve | The Old English Baron | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pur... | Charles Robert Maturin | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, a... | Charles Maturin | Richard Lalor Sheil | The Apostate: a tragedy in five acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued na... | Charles Maturin | Fanny Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fi... | Charles Maturin | Henry Fielding | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty... | Charles Maturin | Charlotte Smith | The Old Manor House | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an... | Charles Maturin | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| | ?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.? | Charles Maturin | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.?
?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal... | Charles Maturin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Le... | Charles Robert Maturin | Thomas Otway | Complete Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Le... | Charles Maturin | Thomas Southern | Complete Plays | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Rem... | Charles Maturin | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon han... | Maria Edgeworth | William Nicholson | The First Principles of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend t... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles-Louis Montesquieu | Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Miguel de Cervantes | probably Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | William Paley | View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, whic... | Charles Robert Maturin | Nathaniel Lee | The Rival Queens, or The Death of Alexander | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel | Riddle of the Universe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Herbert Spencer | The Study of Sociology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Marcus Aurelius | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s... | Charles Robert Maturin | James Sheridan Knowles | Virginius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he ha... | Charles Robert Maturin | Nathaniel Lee | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the g... | Charles Robert Maturin | Sir Walter Scott | complete works to 1820 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence??
?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp ... | Charles Robert Maturin | George Crabbe | poetic works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Maxim Gorky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Jack London | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Sinclair Lewis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder tha... | Charles Robert Maturin | Thomas Moore | Complete Poems and Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Francis Thompson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | John Donne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Christina Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe??
?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassione... | Charles Robert Maturin | James Hogg | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Friedrich von Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Henry David Thoreau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Arthur Schopenhauer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday' | D.R. Davies | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James II | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-le... | Tom Stephenson | | Chorley Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in Eng... | Maria Edgeworth | Jean Racine | Andromache | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | William Hazlitt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | John Ruskin | The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Adam Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met ... | Maria Edgeworth | James Granger | A Biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Alfred Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | | [trade union history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt... | R.L. Edgeworth | John Gay | Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of London | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was par... | Joseph Keating | | [boys' magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was par... | Joseph Keating | | [thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was par... | Joseph Keating | | [Greek Philosophy] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart." | Charles Robert Maturin | James Hogg | Bonny Kilmeny | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothin... | Charles Dickens | Barrow | [note on the qualities of tobacco] | Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle |
| 1850-1899 | : 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.' | | | [Bolton?] Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the b... | | | Lancashire Daily Post | Print: Newspaper, Local newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | News of the World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | John Bull | Print: Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles Robert Dallas | History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large build... | Maria Edgeworth | Maxmillian de Bethune Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? | Maria Edgeworth | Charlotte Smith | Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the... | Maria Edgeworth | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) | Mademoiselle de Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming stor... | Maria Edgeworth | Breton | Voyage dans les Pays Bas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children c... | Maria Edgeworth | Berquin | Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instruction and entertainment of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the th... | Maria Edgeworth | Fanny Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the... | Maria Edgeworth | Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympat... | Maria Edgeworth | Kalidasa | Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of... | Amelia Opie | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 7/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to t... | Amelia Opie | Mary Dudley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the a... | Amelia Opie | Hugh Twyford | The Grounds of Holy Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 8/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.? | Amelia Opie | M R Milford | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the a... | Amelia Opie | Apostle Paul | Address to Agrippa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm ... | Amelia Opie | John Galt | The Life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The t... | Elizabeth Inchbald | William Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The t... | Elizabeth Inchbald | Rescoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 19/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior ... | Amelia Opie | unknown | Life of Sarah Martin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisti... | Amelia Opie | Louise Philippe Segur | Memoirs and Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oscar Wilde | Ballad of Reading Gaol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmont... | John Opie | Holcroft | Theatrical recorder | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Alfred Lord Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: ... | Thomas Holcroft | Amelia Opie | Adelaide | Manuscript: Play script |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Edward Gibbon | presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Algernon Charles Swinburne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | | Clarion (literary pages) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in th... | Amelia Opie | Stephen Crisp | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in th... | Amelia Opie | John Newton | Cardiphonia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with h... | Amelia Opie | John Carne | Letters from the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The... | Amelia Opie | William Hayley | | Manuscript: Plays |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidg... | Elizabeth Fry | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | Arthur Conan Doyle | [Sherlock Holmes Stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | Henry Rider Haggard | [African stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | | [illustrated weeklies] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | | Truth | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an... | Percy Wall | | Review of Reviews | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were ... | Amelia Opie | Amelia Opie | [her own works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its ... | Amelia Opie | Amelia Opie | her own works as they are published | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord... | Amelia Opie | Various | Journal des Debats | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | Friedrich Engels | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Jack London | The Iron Heel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | | [council regulations] | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I... | Amelia Opie | James Harris | Diaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Thomas Hill Green | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with ... | Amelia Opie | Thomas Carlyle | History of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quak... | Amelia Opie | | Bible and other religious texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Alfred Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | J.A. Hobson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in conv... | John Opie | | [various books, fiction in particular] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Henry George | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | John Maynard Keynes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all ... | Amelia Opie | unknown | [moral tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Hugh Dalton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of eve... | Amelia Opie | | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? | Amelia Opie | William Hayley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? | Amelia Opie | Mme de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications... | Edith Hall | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves... | John Pitchford | Thomas Grey | Perigrinus Porteous | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves... | John Pitchford | Thomas Grey | Elegy written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in t... | Amelia Opie | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in t... | Amelia Opie | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in t... | Amelia Opie | George Borrow | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out of work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Henri-Louis Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Friedrich Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | William McDougall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Bertrand Russell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Herbert Spencer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "... | Bronte Family | | The Leeds Intelligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "... | Bronte Family | | The Leeds Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "... | Bronte Family | | The John Bull | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Soc... | Harry McShane | | Justice | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Soc... | Harry McShane | | The Socialist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Soc... | Harry McShane | A.P. Hazell | A Summary of Marx's 'Capital' | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Soc... | Harry McShane | Robert Blatchford (ed.) | The Clarion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit t... | Elizabeth Branwell | | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hu... | Ifan Edwards | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret ... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Southey | letter to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | | Straight and Crooked Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between hersel... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert and Charlotte Southey and Bronte | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Co... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837
A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] work... | Branwell Bronte | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Charles Darwin | [all works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Honore de Balzac | The Human Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Immanuel Kant | Critique of Pure Reason | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | | The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to ... | Charlotte Bronte | David Pryce | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Nikolai Gogol | The Overcoat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Nikolai Gogol | The Nose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Nikolai Gogol | The Madman's Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. | Ewan McColl | Friedrich Engels | The Peasant War in Germany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. | Ewan McColl | Friedrich Engels | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first... | Patrick Branwell Bronte | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when... | Charlotte Bronte | | The Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken ... | Charlotte Bronte | Ellen Nussey | Note inviting Charlotte Bronte on visit | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- sh... | Elizabeth Branwell | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read ... | Emily Bronte | Emily Bronte | Life of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: "I loved those books that ... | Henry Rider Haggard | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Anon | The Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton | The Coming Race | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Alfred Lord Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally ... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The P... | Charlotte Bronte | | Letter from Smith, Elder & Co., publishers | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa... | | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa... | George Murray Smith | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me "Jane Eyre." It interested me... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 11 December 1847: 'Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist -- I have nev... | Charlotte Bronte | Wililam Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over "The Professor." I foun... | Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bronte | The Professor | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 18 December 1847: '"The Observer" has just reached me ... I always compel ... | Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bronte | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the... | John Gibson Lockhart | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even ... | | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride &... | Charlotte Bronte | George Henry Lewes | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride &... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 18 January 1848: 'I have not read "Azeth", but I did read or begin to read a tale in ... | Charlotte Bronte | Eliza Lynn Linton | story in New Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that ... | Charlotte Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre".' | Mary Taylor | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convi... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath... | Charlotte Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath... | Emily Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: '"The North American Review" [containing reviews of the ... | Charlotte Bronte | | The North American Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincere... | Charlotte Bronte | Ellen Nussey | note | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...' | Charlotte Bronte | Anne Bronte | letter to Ellen Nussey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '"The North British Review" duly reached me. I read atten... | Charlotte Bronte | | The North British Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the "Daily News." [containing revie... | Charlotte Bronte | | The Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Gaskell, "Life of Charlotte Bronte" (1857): '[Charlotte Bronte's] hosts [in London] took pleasure in showing... | Charlotte Bronte | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" [cont... | Charlotte Bronte | George Henry Lewes | Review of Charlotte Bronte, Shirley | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 16 February 1850: 'A few days since a little incident happened which curiously touch... | Charlotte Bronte | Maria Branwell | letters and papers | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished "Jane Eyre" is now crying out for the ... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with i... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with i... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your d... | Maria Branwell | | Letter from sister | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.' | Charlotte Bronte | Thornton Hunt | Note | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me muc... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Southey | Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me muc... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women... | Mary Taylor | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley (extracts) | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion ... | Mary Taylor | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each othe... | Charlotte Bronte | Robert Knox | The Races of Men: A Fragment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 28 September 1850, on preparing to write preface to new edition of "Wuther... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I w... | Charlotte Bronte | Mrs Smith | Note to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed stil... | Charlotte Bronte | | Bronte family papers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when... | Charlotte Bronte | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Life of Dr Arnold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850: 'On referring to Mr Newby's letters, I find in one of them, a boast... | Charlotte Bronte | Newby | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Let... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet and H. G. Martineau and Atkinson | Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 20 September 1851: 'Of all the articles respecting which you question me -- I h... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Taylor | Article on women's emancipation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 February 1852, after having been lent the first volume of W. M. Thackeray, "Henry... | Charlotte Bronte | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond (volume I) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new wor... | Charlotte Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must... | Charlotte Bronte | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard ... | Patrick Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | note to Ellen Nussey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the b... | | | [unknown books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | The People | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who... | | | Lancashire Daily Post | Print: Newspaper, local newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (... | Thomas Carlyle | | Blackwoods Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued ... | Thomas Carlyle | various | [histories] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wallace | 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Gibbon | Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another oppo... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the... | Benjamin Franklin | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the ... | Benjamin Franklin | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Little Red Riding Hood | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsf... | Poor men of Chelmsford | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsf... | | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Co... | Robert Keayne | | Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28 | Manuscript: Codex, Leather bound pocketbook |
| 1700-1799 | Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him... | Sarah Osborn | | Bible passages | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him... | Sarah Osborn | Joseph Alleine | Alarm for the Unconverted | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | The mother of Carteret Rede remembered that when 'I came up into her Chamber, I found her reading Mr. John Janeway's "... | Carteret Rede | John Janeway | Life and Death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's... | Joseph Croswell | Mr. Erskine | [spiritual autobiography] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's... | Joseph Croswell | Mr. Erskine | | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | As temporary President in Virginia, John Smith 'had the "letters patent" [for governing of the colony] read aloud "eac... | | | Letters patent for governance of colony | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a vet... | John Pory | Anon | Charter of Virginia Assembly | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed ... | George Fox | | Quaker correspondence | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | "... [In the 1720s] William Byrd (1674-1744) of Westover, Virginia, was keeping up with the classics in his private re... | William Byrd | | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' tha... | anon | | Code of Laws 1648 | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a s... | Lady Louisa Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And whe... | Lady Louisa Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them h... | Jack Jones | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them h... | Jack Jones | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [most works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them h... | Jack Jones | Maxim Gorky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Robert Burns | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Charlotte Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Elizabeth Gaskell | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | [unknown] | [children's comics] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be "very ... | Frederick Willis | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be "very ... | Frederick Willis | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughl... | Edward Ezard | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly... | Edward Ezard | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "co... | Paul Fletcher | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the n... | A.J. Mills | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M... | Lionel Fraser | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M... | Lionel Fraser | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor... | Bryan Forbes | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor... | Bryan Forbes | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because... | Louis Battye | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because... | Louis Battye | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scho... | Kathleen Betterton | Angela Brazil | [school stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a c... | Amy Gomm | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a c... | Amy Gomm | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "fo... | | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "fo... | | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's School Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "fo... | | Talbot Baines Reed | The Fifth Form at St Dominic's | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wode... | Walter Citrine | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | [short school story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wode... | Walter Citrine | [unknown] | [school stories from The Captain] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wode... | Walter Citrine | Karl Marx | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | [unknown] | [boys' weeklies] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | John Rodrigo Dos Passos | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well... | George Scott | John Steinbeck | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of... | Hymie Fagan | Frank Richards | [school stories in The Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of... | Hymie Fagan | Frank Richards | [school stories in The Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of... | Hymie Fagan | Talbot Baines Reed | [school stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | n/a | The Magnet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | n/a | The Boy's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | George Alfred Henty | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | n/a | The Clarion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | n/a | The Freethinker | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | A.K. von Huhn | The Struggle of the Bulgarians for National Independence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) | The Filipino Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aenei... | Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney | Alexander Pope | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aenei... | Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentime... | Frances Burney | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | ancient history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Elizabeth and Richard Griffith | A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Nathaniel Hooke | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Conyers Middleton | Life of Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Denis Diderot | treatise on music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, n... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Cr... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: ... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781... | Frances Burney | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impression... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When he was writing ... "Things as They Are" (1794) ... [William] Godwin studied "Cecilia".' | William Godwin | Frances Burney | Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783):
'I stood, a favouring muse,... | Frances Burney | Samuel Hoole | Aurelia | |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horri... | Frances Burney and Leonard Smelt | Horace Walpole | The Mysterious Mother | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sis... | Sarah Fielding | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...' | The Hon. Stephen Digby | William Falconer | The Shipwreck | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Catherine Talbot | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Hester Chapone | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the t... | D'Arblay family | Alain Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When ... | Frances Burney | Charles Burney | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ... | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ... | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to becom... | Anne Thackeray | Frances Burney | The Diary and Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | n/a | The Magnet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | n/a | The Gem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | H. Rider Haggard | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | William Le Queux | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | Phillips Oppenheim | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English... | Chaim Bermant | n/a | The Beano | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English... | Chaim Bermant | Beatrix Potter | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English... | Chaim Bermant | n/a | The Glasgow Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English... | Chaim Bermant | n/a | The Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican vie... | Jim Flowers | Thomas Paine | [unknown -Rights of Man?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican vie... | Jim Flowers | n/a | The Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonema... | Wilfred Pickles | John Galsworthy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... | | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... | | [unknown] | [travel books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | n/a | Mercure de France | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Gerhart Hauptmann | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Hermann Sudermann | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Jonas Lie | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | August Strindberg | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | | Royal Reader | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | | [history reader] | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than ... | Flora Thompson | Giovanni Battista Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, &c. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his con... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed... | Harry Burton | Frederick W. Farrar | [St Winifred's School Stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been don... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed... | Harry Burton | Talbot Baines Reed | [School Stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed... | Harry Burton | Frank Richards | [School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same ... | Alexander Somerville | George Anson | A Voyage Round the World | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in P... | Arnold Bennett | Joris Karl Huysmans | Les Soeurs Vatards | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read... | "Jacques", a flax dresser | George Anson | A Voyage Round the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read... | "Jacques", a flax dresser | James Cook | [Accounts of three voyages round the world] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read... | "Jacques", a flax dresser | James Bruce | Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769,1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read... | "Jacques", a flax dresser | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Clare... | Arnold Bennett | Jules Claretie | L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, ... | Elizabeth Baker | | Scriptures | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | ... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest... | Elizabeth Baker | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had be... | Ford Madox Ford | Arnold Bennett | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sour... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Victoria History of the Potteries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Honeymoon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and ar... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Ann Veronica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'. | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what... | Winnie Seerbohm | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sug... | Female American travelling-companions | | French novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed th... | | | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read... | M. C. Mondy | | stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor... | English class, Queen's College | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Bre... | E. Terry | anon | Middle High German love-lyric | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Bre... | | anon | Middle High German love-lyric | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's]... | Female pupils at Surrey school | anon | The Times (extracts) | Print: Newspaper |
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1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, ... | Rosie | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] fo... | Margaret Cole | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Annabel Huth Jackson recalls the impact of a copy of Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" at Cheltenham Ladies' College: "... | Pupils at Cheltenham Ladies' College | Algernon Swinburne | Poems and Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler | The Farringdons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | L. T. Meade | By Mutual Consent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Walter Besant | To Call Her Mine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Walter Besant | Katherine Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Walter Besant | Self or Bearer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | The Cricket on the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler | Concerning Isabel Carnaby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Evelyn Everett-Green | The Head of the House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | | A Double Thread | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Margaret Oliphant | The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Ewing | | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Charlotte Yonge | | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Walter Scott | The Talisman | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli... | | Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Josephine Butler [nee Grey] remembered her mother's '[assembling] us daily for the reading aloud of some solid book ..... | Grey Family | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Little Duke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the... | Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the... | Young Lady Aberdeen and mother | | Mavor's spelling book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shor... | Emily Shore and mother | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses on Art | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of... | Frances Mary Buss | | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Zoe Proctor (b.1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of the County Gaol at Bury St Edmu... | Zoe Proctor | | story books | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-mor... | Margaret Cole | | The Girl's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | 'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading,... | Amy Barlow | Elizabeth Wetherell | The Old Helmet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco"... | | George Anson | Voyage Round the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco... | | William Lempriere | Tour to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco... | | | History of Montezuma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day be... | Lillian Faithfull and mother | William B Carpenter | Principles of Mental Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day be... | Lillian Faithfull and mother | H. T. Buckle | History of Civilisation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day be... | Lillian Faithfull and mother | John Seeley | Ecce Homo | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that ha... | | | books on hydraulics | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that ha... | | | books on astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began t... | Enid Starkie | | French fiction | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener ... | Ellen Clifford | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dys... | Elizabeth Edith Huggins | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic whi... | | | Concordance to Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What ... | Beryl Lee Booker | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What ... | Beryl Lee Booker | Susan Coolidge | What Katy Did | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Monier Williams | work/s on Eastern religions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | William Law | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Jacob Boehme | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | John Milton | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | William Cowper | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | Washington Irving | Orations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's ... | Mary Gladstone | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', whic... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he beg... | Amy Barlow | Ethel Voynich | The Gadfly | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ... | Octavia Hill | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she re... | Eleanor Farjeon | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school sto... | Margaret Cole and brothers | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school sto... | Margaret Cole and brothers | | Sexton Blake | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...' | Margaret Cole and brothers | | The Magnet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...' | Margaret Cole and brothers | | boys' school stories | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay w... | Phyllis Browne | | miscellaneous novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by... | | Thomas Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by... | Phyllis Browne | Thomas Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...' | | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... ' | Dorothea Beale and mother | | history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... ' | Dorothea Beale and mother | | general literature | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews o... | Dorothea Beale | | history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews o... | Dorothea Beale | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews o... | Dorothea Beale | | The Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews o... | Dorothea Beale | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Sarah Lewis | Woman's Mission | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Susan Warner | The Wide, Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Susan Warner | Queechy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Maria Charlesworth | Ministering Children | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she s... | Lord and Lady Cavendish | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | | gift books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | William Shakespeare | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | Walter Scott | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | | texts on religion | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | | historical studies | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ... | Lucy Lyttelton | | modern novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read Geor... | Benson family | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen o... | Jean Curtis Brown and friend | | Home Chat | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ... | Joan Evans | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ... | Joan Evans | Matthew Arnold | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos... | Mary St Leger Harrison | | philosophical texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos... | Mary St Leger Harrison | | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | | The Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfi... | Mary Paley Marshall | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when ... | | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter readin... | Harriet Shaw Weaver | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who live... | Susan Mitchell | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her mora... | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' | George Douglas Campbell | | poetry | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' | Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower | | poetry | |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' | William Ewart Gladstone | | Latin texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' | William Ewart Gladstone | | Italian texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature canno... | Lady Frances Balfour | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick | | science books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | | medical journals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | H. M. Swanwick | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | H. M. Swanwick | La Fontaine | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | poems including Jenny | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicac... | Tiddy | Alfred Tennyson | poems including The Revenge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicac... | Mary Stocks and siblings | Alfred Tennyson | poems including The Revenge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | Algernon Swinburne | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | Edward Carpenter | Love's Coming of Age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | | popular novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | | Household Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a di... | Cicely Hammill | Eugene Sue | Juif Errant | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a di... | Cicely Hammill | | French dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edga... | Laura Knight | Edgar Allen Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edga... | Laura Knight | | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edga... | Laura Knight | | The Boy's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..." | Angela Brazil | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | New Machiavelli, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audienc... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Milestones | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.' | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad wom... | Annabel Huth Jackson | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tape... | Cicely Hamilton | Walter Scott | Works including The Tapestry Chamber | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tape... | Cicely Hamilton | | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | Harriet Martineau | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | George Sand | Histoire de ma vie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she ... | Christine Longford | Susan Warner | The Wide, Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | John Milton | Complete poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Virgil | The Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Sophocles | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Euripedes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Ovid | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Tacitus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Xenophon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Herodotus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Anquetil du Perron | Zend Avesta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Sir William Jones | Institutes of Menu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Diogenes Laertius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | | translated ancient philosophical texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | | Biographical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan re... | Frances Power Cobbe | John Bunyan | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Tindal | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Collins | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Marcus Aurelius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Seneca | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Plutarch | Moralia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading ... | Anne Jemima Clough | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Symington | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | J. A. Froude | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Bible and Modern Thought | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | Memorials of Fox | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Bancroft | The American Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Waddington | Church History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Paley | Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics of Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain ... | Mary Augusta Arnold | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'". | Mary Augusta Arnold | | Texts in/on early Spanish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Salomon Reinach | Orpheus:A History of Religions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Jane Harrison | Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Farnell | Cults of the Greek States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Sir James George Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | | poem on family Bible | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | Felicia Hemans | The Better Land | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union'... | Marianne Farningham | | Sunday School Union magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | "The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines... | Frances Ridley Havergal | William Cowper | | Print: Unknown |
| | "Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though s... | Enid Starkie | Francis Thompson | The Hound of Heaven | Print: Unknown |
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1850-1899 | "Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters... | Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister | | The Bible | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Fl... | Jane Ellen Harrison | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | "A. Maude Royden, whilst at Lady Margaret Hall, became immersed in Tractarianism, and she read her way through the fiv... | A. Maude Royden | | life of Edward Bouverie Pusey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ... | Margaret Cole | J. A. Hobson | The Science of Wealth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ... | Margaret Cole | H. G. Wells | New Worlds for Old | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ... | Margaret Cole | H. G. Wells | The First Men in the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "[in her autobiography Growing up Into Revolution (1949), Margaret Cole] conveys the combination of amusement and deli... | Margaret Cole and Girton contemporaries | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Unknown |
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1900-1945 | "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary ... | Ellen Wilkinson and father | Ernst Haeckel | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary ... | Ellen Wilkinson and father | T. H. Huxley | | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | "Ellen Wilkinson, brought up in Ardwick, Manchester, went with her father to lectures on theological and evolutionary ... | Ellen Wilkinson and father | Charles Darwin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | George Eliot | novels | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | '[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she wa... | Alice Foley | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family read... | family of Alice Foley | | The Clarion | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | "By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family read... | family of Alice Foley | | Merrry England | Print: Unknown |
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1900-1945 | "By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family read... | family of Alice Foley | | God and My Neighbour | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "The suffragette, Annie Kenney (b.1879), looking back to her girlhood working in a Lancashire factory recalls ... goin... | Annie Kenney and co-workers | | weekly girls' paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | theological works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | early Methodist magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | cookery books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | crime/horror fiction | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although... | Hannah Mitchell | | local newspaper (including verse) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by book... | Hannah Mitchell | | library books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by book... | Hannah Mitchell | | bookstall stock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist min... | Mary Smith | Lyell | Vestiges of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by ... | Mrs Layton | | popular serial fiction | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen... | Mrs Layton | | travel writing | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman'... | Jessie Boucherett | | The Englishwoman's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | | The Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | Emanuel Swedenborg | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which app... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Walter Besant | Children of Gibeon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which eac... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | | Life of Mazzini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Morris | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Carpenter | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Walt Whitman | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sunday... | Harriet Shaw Weaver | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who s... | Margaret Smith | | Votes for Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War ... | Annabel Huth Jackson | | The War Cry | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | "Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that
"'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an Afri... | anon | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of
entertaining reading: a co... | Henry James | | [a guidebook to the areas round London] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | | The Holy War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | feminist writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works on political science | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works on economics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works on psychology | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works in anthropology | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: e... | Viscountess Rhondda | Havelock Ellis | The Psychology of Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were... | Dora Montefiore | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the adv... | Florence Spong | | A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Jane Porter | The Scottish Chiefs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Samuel Smiles | LIfe and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Miss Broughton [had] read the lives of great women reformers like Florence N... | | | Lives of women reformers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life... | Mrs Reonold | | Life of Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone ... | Viscountess Rhondda | Edna Lyall | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..." | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Shakespeare | History plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent ... | Adam Mackie | Nicholson | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | am studying part of the Encyclopaedia Edinensis, brought by a bookman, George Anton | Adam Mackie | | Encyclopaedia Edinensis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At home without company afternoon and evening, looking over a little of the history of Aberdeen, which I have got lately. | Adam Mackie | | History of Aberdeen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points o... | Adam Mackie | C.H. Gifford | History of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in Ju... | Adam Mackie | C.H. Gifford | History of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War. | Adam Mackie | C.H. Gifford | History of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and Brit... | Adam Mackie | C.H. Gifford | History of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Afternoon reading Rollin's History | Adam Mackie | Charles Rollin | The Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,althoug... | Adam Mackie | Charles Rollin | The Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews. | Adam Mackie | Charles Rollin | The Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof. | Adam Mackie | Charles Rollin | The Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syr... | Adam Mackie | Charles Rollin | The Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion | Adam Mackie | Joseph Addison | Evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Have amused myself this evening reading the Life of Christ. | Adam Mackie | John Fleetwood | The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At church [...] Had Dr Argo part of this evening, who was down seeing the boys head.[...] Filled up the rest of the ti... | Adam Mackie | John Fleetwood | The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging disc... | Adam Mackie | John Fleetwood | The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Spent the evening reading Fleetwood's Lives of the Apostles [NB part of life of Christ] | Adam Mackie | John Fleetwood | The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Have employed this evening reading the history and theory of the gas lights from a number of the Encyclopaedia | Adam Mackie | | ' an Encyclopaedia' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State. | Adam Mackie | Thomas Boston | Human Nature in its Fourfold State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the N... | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer] | Adam Mackie | | [Astronomy] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] Mannering | Adam Mackie | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of Redgauntlet | Adam Mackie | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the m... | Adam Mackie | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott] | Adam Mackie | Walter Scott | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in ... | Adam Mackie | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean | Adam Mackie | Archibald Constable | Miscellany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hur... | Henry Mackenzie | Dr John Gregory | A Father's Legacy to his Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history... | Harry Lauder | William M. Thayer | From Log Cabin to White House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history... | Harry Lauder | [unknown] | [American History] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history... | Harry Lauder | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history... | Harry Lauder | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Louisa May Alcott | Good Wives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Susan M. Coolidge | What Katy Did | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Avonlea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with th... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | n/a | Christian Science Monitor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Siegfried Sassoon | [war poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Wilfred Owen | [war poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Robert Graves | Goodbye to All That | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Edmund Blunden | Undertones of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell's family | n/a | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | One little book that my father had given me the last time he was at home, was for a long time afterwards my inseparabl... | Ellen Weeton | | ['A storybook'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The only gratification I ever sought was to be permitted to sit quietly in my brother's room, with a book. That room w... | Ellen Weeton | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness ... | Ellen Weeton | | ['Psalms'] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor] | Ellen Weeton | Anne Louise Stael-Holstein | Corinna, or Italy | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining c... | Ellen Weeton | | [books on carving] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and ... | Ellen Weeton | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first an... | Ellen Weeton | Philip Dormer Stanhope | Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and th... | Ellen Weeton | | [songs and music] | Unknown |
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1800-1849 | When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read ... | Ellen Weeton | | [novels] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fa... | Ellen Weeton | John Corry | A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with... | Ellen Weeton | By the Editor of the Letters of Maria | Windermere. A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a li... | Ellen Weeton | R Morgan | Letters on Mythology | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further re... | Ellen Weeton | Stephanie de Genlis Brulart | Lessons of a Governess to Her Pupils | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols. Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the... | Ellen Weeton | Anna Maria Porter | Lake of Killarney | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old custo... | Ellen Weeton | Miss Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical ... | Ellen Weeton | John Corry | The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion... | Ellen Weeton | W Hayley | A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A... | Ellen Weeton | David Brewster | The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. Brews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Robin Hood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Dick Turpin | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincere... | | anon | Charles Peace | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | anon | Dick Turpin | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | anon | Three Fingered Jack | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | Robert Burns | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h... | Frederick Willis | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialise... | Frederick Willis | n/a | Union Jack | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialise... | Frederick Willis | Walter Scott | [various works, abridged] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialise... | Frederick Willis | n/a | Chatterbox Christmas Annual | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | n/a | Boys' Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | John Lothrop Motley | The Rise of the Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | John Richard Green | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [probably The History of England from the Accession of James II] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | William Hickling Prescott | [Spanish history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teach... | Walter Southgate | | [penny dreadfuls about Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teach... | Walter Southgate | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teach... | Walter Southgate | Walter Scott | [Waverley Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teach... | Walter Southgate | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | | ['Penny Bloods'] | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | George Eliot [pseud] | | Print: Book |
| | 'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot... | George Acorn | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Francois Rabelais | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | | [dime novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | George Alfred Henty | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | | [penny horror stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | | [penny fairy stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [biblical criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [treatises on algebra and geometry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read bey... | Thomas Wood | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read bey... | Thomas Wood | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep... | Edwin Whitlock | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep... | Edwin Whitlock | [unknown] | [Sunday School prize books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep... | Edwin Whitlock | n/a | POst Office Directory, 1867 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Ellen Wood | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | [anon] | The Holy War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | [unknown] | [religious magazines] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | anon | The Adventures of a Penny | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | anon | Cassell's History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | anon | ['twopenny bloods'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | anon | The Wizard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | anon | [a handbook for vegetarians] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan and the Jewels of Ophir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | William Prescott | HIstory of the Conquest of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | Washington Irving | Rip van Winkle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | n/a | the Hotspur | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | The Gem | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | Magnet, The | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | [Sexton Blake Stories] | Print: Serial / periodical, comics |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Alfred Henty | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Robert Michael Ballantyne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Frederick Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | James Fenimore Cooper | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Peru, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Mexico, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposi... | Charles Dickens | Henry Torrens [Sir] | Field exercises and evolutions of the army | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excer... | John Scott | Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael | Considerations sur les Principaux Evenements de la | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which con... | Charles Dickens | Samuel Johnson | An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are ... | John Scott | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic t... | Edward Pearson | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair t... | John Macrone | Charles Dickens | The Black Veil | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrot... | | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1450-1499 | Susan Schibanoff, "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman": "In 1473, Anthony Woodville, Earl Riv... | Anthony Woodville Earl Rivers | | Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading... | Mary Ann Evans | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco... | Melvyn Bragg | Louisa May Alcott | Jo's Boys | Print: Book |
| | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco... | Melvyn Bragg | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| | David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry rea... | Jonathan Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr... | John Drummond Erskine | Adam Dickson | An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisf... | Robert Sharp | | The Morning Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interf... | Robert Sharp | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Read the last Nos of Cobbett to the 24th Feb he has no compassion for Lord Liverpool; The Elegy on Bric is as ludicruo... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Cobbett tells a very plausible tale of being deceived by the man who was to have been his surety... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Saw in the Rockingham that seven of the Ministers have sent in their resignation - Amongst the rest the Lord, Chancell... | Robert Sharp | | Rockingham and Hull Weekly Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | I just peeped into Cobbett last night but had not time to read much I looked over the Dialogue between the King and th... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | The Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Newspaper from WM this morning... Also two Examiners the last week and this, so that I revel in news this day. The Old... | Robert Sharp | | The Times OR The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Cobbett thinks that Mr Canning would not have pressed on the Corn Bill in the manner it is, if he had not been threate... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times. | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Nelson's estate which is advertised for sale in the Hull papers. I likewise saw it in The Times. | Robert Sharp | | The Hull Packet and Humber Gazette | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | I see by the paper that Mr Canning is indeed very ill... | Robert Sharp | | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd the Courier this morning with an account of the Death of Mr Canning...' | Robert Sharp | | The Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A very small market this day... I saw Bells's life in London with a portrait of Mr Canning. It is a strange rough con... | Robert Sharp | | Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see Cobbett has been calling the toll collectors to account...' | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '"Blessings on his head said Sancho Panza who first invented sleep", But what shall we say of the character of the Fre... | Robert Sharp | John Moore | A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerla | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sent last night to WM a Basket... after that amused myself by reading in the Spectator the account of Sir Roger de Co... | Robert Sharp | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the Times there is an Order from the Magisterial Gentlemen of Beverley at the last sessions...' | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Coun... | Robert Sharp | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the paper I received this morning was written near the seals "Billy's away" and a sketch of some kind of head... T... | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the "Literary Gazette"; the notice of the Life of Bonaparte is quite entertaining, some of the names of t... | Robert Sharp | | The Literary Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read over the "History of Chivalry", it really is true to the title page as nothing but Chivalry can befound i... | Robert Sharp | Charles Mills | The History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Tim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sykes will not take any more of Cobbett's registers for the abuse heaped on Mr Canning and for the observations ma... | Richard Sykes | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen some advertisements of Books from Ths. Hurst & Co in St Paul's Church yard...' | Robert Sharp | | [book advertisements] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'It appears by the Times that there are several dreadful houses in the Neighbourhood of Bow Street, where the unthinki... | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Isaac Wilson in his paper of the 16th inst said that the Poll was settled at Preston and Cobbett thrown out, but it a... | Robert Sharp | | The Hull Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Re[ceived] a parcel from WM this night by the carrier, containing two of Cobbett's & a court calendar, I am glad to h... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the Times of Saturday last that Hunt retired from the contest'. | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see a review of Moxon's book in the Imperial Mag. For July, it is very fair I think.' | Robert Sharp | | The Imperial Magazine; or Compendium of Religious | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw a piece in the times headed 'Poor old Cobbett' where it seems to be insinuated that he has not spent all the mo... | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd this morning a small parcel from WM I think Cobbett's greatest antipathy at present...' | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the Times this morning that a young man of the name of Dunn from Hull has been robbing his employers Sewell ... | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a paragraph in the Times this morning on the subject of large farms, which is much to the purpose...' | Robert Sharp | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd a parcel from William... [Cobbett] seems to bear it admirably for he says it was a triumph...' | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrid... | Robert Sharp | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty... | Robert Sharp | David Hume | The History of England from the Invasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in the Edinburgh Review the Remarks there made on the Hamiltonian System of acquiring languages. I think it me... | Robert Sharp | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Times recd this morning gives an account of the printing trade being in a very depressed state at present. I thin... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see the account is contradicted that Walter Scott has been appointed the King's printer, the Newspapers contradict ... | Robert Sharp | n/a | [The Newspapers] OR [The Times] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Times called Cobbett a "comical miscreant", and the "vagabond" in an article on the "Poor Man's Friend", it appea... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately read a report of the Corn Laws made in 1814 before the house of Commons, one witness says... It came ou... | Robert Sharp | anon | Report on the Corn Laws OR Address to the Two Houses | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately la... | Robert Sharp | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd two Papers this morning, and was like the Ass between the bundles of Hay, not knowing which to begin to read fir... | Robert Sharp | n/a | [two newspapers] OR The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the Times this morning there is likely to be some stir with the supporters of the Bible society, it is no mo... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Times this morning seems to think that the corn question will meet with the same treatment as catholic emancipation' | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'two papers this morning, the one that missed yesterday came today [...] I see there is a great deficiency in the Quar... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| | Evidence of engagement with the text: (1) occasional marginal notes; (2) marginal symbols throughout the text, crosses... | Jo. Halkerston | Conradus Lagus | Methodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, perveniendi ad veram solidamque iurisprud. mirifice ad omnes libros iuris: & DD. recte intelligendos vtilis, ex ore doctissimi, clarissimique iusrisconsulti D. Conradi Lagi annotata. ? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du system... | Thomas Carlyle | Simon-Pierre Laplace | Exposition du systeme du monde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid... | Thomas Carlyle | Simon-Pierre Laplace | Exposition du systeme du monde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir John Leslie | Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Plane Trigonometry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forc... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Bossut | Mecanique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold (Canto IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in ... | Thomas Carlyle | Dr Chalmers | Title unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second t... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading... | anon | George Eiiot | Adam Bede | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | " ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time:
"'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox... | anon | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief account... | Anthony Errington | | | Print: tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | "A young handloom weaver in Carlisle was able to develop both his literacy skills and his political consciousness as h... | William Farish | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame scho... | Joseph Gutteridge | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame scho... | Joseph Gutteridge | | public house and shop signs | Manuscript: Signboard |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without l... | Alexander Somerville | Anson | Voyage Round the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled,
"'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t... | Alexander Somerville | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled,
"'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t... | Alexander Somerville | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled,
"'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t... | Alexander Somerville | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Little Red Riding Hood | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Zig Zag | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Prince Cherry | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1800-1849 | "As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstam... | James Watson | | notice of political meeting | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 | "As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstam... | Members of Radical Reform group | | The Black Dwarf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstam... | Members of Radical Reform group | | The Republican | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstam... | Members of Radical Reform group | | The Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 3 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divi... | Dr Sibbald | Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila | A general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on poisons, drawn from the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, considered as to their relations with physiology, pathology and medical jurisprudence by M.P. Orfila, translated from the French ? | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? E... | | George Burder | Village sermons: or, fifty-two plain and short discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel; intended for the use of families, Sunday schools, or companies assembled for religious instructions in country villages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? E... | James Walker Harper | Fidelis, pseud. | Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cottage meetings by Fidelis author of 'Simple preparation for the Holy Communion' containng addresses by the late Canon Kingsley, Rev. G.H. Wilkinson and Dr. Vaughan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where... | [A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called... | 'The Parson' | Thomas Secker | Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cobbett is quite entertaining in his Rural Rides, he indeed excels in rural descriptions; he sees as well as all may ... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the Times this morning there is a project for two prices, paper & cash, viz paper one fourth of gold, it app... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...' | Robert Sharp | Thomas Moore | Memoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon R B Sheridan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The paper which should have been here yesterday arrived today, so that there were two this morning... I see by the Ro... | Robert Sharp | n/a | Rockingham and Hull Weekly Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read all the Rural Rides of Cobbett he is very excellent at description, he has just opened on the Greek Patri... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is one of the best satirical pieces in the last Examiner (alias Tom Tit) on the King's speech which I almost ev... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see it is strongly reported that the difference between Spain and Portugal is made up. I hope it is, for I do not l... | Robert Sharp | n/a | [a newspaper, probably The Times] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd by the Carrier last night from WM the Judgement of Sir John Nichols, on the burial of Persons baptized by Dissen... | Robert Sharp | John Nicholl | [The Judgement Delivered December 11th 1809...] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cobbett on the Corn laws is almost above himself it is the best exposition I ever saw of the frantic cry of the Agric... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the paper this morning that the Corn question in Parliament is put off till the 26th inst this almost confir... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Very little news of importance in the Papers. I see Mr Hume is still strenuous for Economy, particulary in the Navy e... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Very little news of importance in the Papers. I see Mr Hume is still strenuous for Economy, particulary in the Navy e... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Examiner for last week arrived yesterday... I hear that the corn question is put off till Thursday next...' | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd a parcel from WM last night, containing new cravats. Cobbett is most fierce on Mr Hume, but what good will he do... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recd 2 papers from WM yesterday morning, the Examiner not come to hand all this week... I see Taylor, the orator, Phi... | Robert Sharp | n/a | [a newspaper, probably The Times] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the paper I see there has been a great deal of crowding about St James's to see the laying in state of the Royal D... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A fine morning. Recd the Examiner this morning which is soon as can be expected. The times very copious on the approa... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw in the Paper this morning the official account of the Death of the Duke of York; the paper in mourning.' | Robert Sharp | n/a | [a newspaper, probably The Times] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last night I sat down to read Cobbett, and very cold it was, but I was left by myself at the fire-side; I never have ... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | The Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have begun to read Hill's history of Chivalry, the author seems to be delighted with his subject, and I have no dou... | Robert Sharp | Charles Mills | The History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the Hull packet that the Brothers has sailed for London...' | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Hull Packet and Humber Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recd two papers this morning packed up together, so that if news be like wine which improves in the keeping, I am v... | Robert Sharp | n/a | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a fine cover on one of the Registers which I must preserve, it has been a Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works... | Robert Sharp | n/a | ['Wrapper to a No of Hogarth's works' OR [cover to | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cobbett has rubbed down Sir Francis pretty roughly, it appears that when self interest is contrasted with Patriotism ... | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read in the Times this day with great satisfaction the proceedings of a meeting in London to protect & defend ... | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'While Cobbett has been at the Crown & Anchor amongst [the] Philistines they would not suffer him to speak...' | Robert Sharp | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see by the Paper this morning that Mr Canning is going to allow all corn in bond before the first of July...' | Robert Sharp | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following written by Dr Worthington appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben concerni... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of Wellington said to be written by B.Constant 'un heros froid et med... | Benjamin Newton | John Hobhouse | The substance of some letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of wellington said to be written by B.Constant "un heros froid et med... | Benjamin Newton | anon | Letters written by an eminent persons in the seventeenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pron... | Benjamin Newton | Henry Kett | The flowers of wit, or a choice collection of bon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.' | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Shuckford | The sacred and profane history of the world | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that ... | Benjamin Newton | Galt | [Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin West | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answe... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | A demonstration of the being and attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.' | Benjamin Newton | John Tweddell | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the ... | Rev. Benjamin Newton | Ennio Visconti | A letter from the chevalier Antonio Canova | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read bishop of Gloucester's Charge which I think excellent for its devotion, its liberality, its style and manner and... | Rev. Benjamin Newton | Henry Ryder | A charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bingley's useful knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'. | Rev. Benjamin Newton | William Bingley | Useful knowledge or a familiar and explanatory account | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to ... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspapers?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'. | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Pyle | [sermons?] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went hunting [...] saw Mr Claridge's advertisement for the sale of 11, 695 trees of which 5241 were oaks.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'. | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [Local newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] styl... | Benjamin Newton | John Kidd | A Geological essay on the Imperfect Evidence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'. | Benjamin Newton | George Woods | An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what ... | Benjamin Newton | James Dallaway | Of Statuary and Sculpture among the Antients | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers i... | Benjamin Newton | William Warden | Letters written on board [...]in which the conduct | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: h... | Robert Boyle | | romance | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | " ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously me... | William Dowsing | | books | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously me... | William Dowsing | | sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | "According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection... | James Johnstoun | Sir Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediatel... | anon | Sir Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Unknown |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | " ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de... | Sir John Suckling | William Shakespeare | The Rape of Lucrece | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe... | Henry Wotton | R | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe... | Henry Wotton | John Milton | A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of L... | Lucy Hutchinson | Lucretius | De rerum natura | |
| 1800-1849 | Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthc... | Charles Lamb | | literary advertisements | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | George Eliot | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Stuart Mill | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition ... | Wordsworth Family | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition ... | Wordsworth Family | William Michael Rossetti | Biographical essay on Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale Wh... | William Hale White | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled t... | George Acorn | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe... | Arthur Harding | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe... | Arthur Harding | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dicke... | | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her... | Mary Ann Evans | Mary Finlay Cross | story | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | Henry James | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | William Dean Howells | | Print: Unknown |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | " ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometime... | John Donne | | various texts | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or pa... | George Acorn | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat... | Frederick Rogers | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat... | Frederick Rogers | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | | Bible, the | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Charles Reade | Cloister and the Hearth, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | Homer | Iliad, the | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There were few books at home when [Harry Burton] was a boy, but one of them was "Don Juan". He read it before he was ... | Harry Burton | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | Elinor Glyn | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was agreed to purchase a second copy of the News Chronicle to meet the extra demand for examining the situations v... | Readers at Uxbridge Library | | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Robert Southey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | William Cullen Bryant | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | | [study of David Hume] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | George Crabbe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | n/a | [boys' papers] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Robert Browning | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Henry James | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | n/a | John O' London's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | | [unknown] | [detective thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | | [unknown] | [Western novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | | [n/a] | [local and sports papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | [local and sports papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [Western novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [detective thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [children's books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [unknown] | [travel books, including some on Tibet] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | The Wizard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | The Hotspur | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [anon] | The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | [n/a] | [books on model railways] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... | Derek Davies | T.E. Lawrence | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | [n/a] | [a Latin-English Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, s... | Benjamin Newton | George Woods | An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Robert Ingersoll | [speeches on agnosticism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his l... | Benjamin Newton | Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield | Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self Reliance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Washington Irving | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | A demonstration of the being attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.' | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Burder | Oriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacred | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Edgar Allan Poe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | William Hazlitt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Immanuel Kant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Sigmund Freud | Psychoneurosis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture,... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Burder | Oriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own char... | Benjamin Newton | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by hims... | Benjamin Newton | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from... | Benjamin Newton | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to b... | Benjamin Newton | Benjamin Franklen | The private correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'. | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'. | Benjamin Newton | Charles Montholon | Bonaparte's memorial in a letter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.' | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A pindaric ode | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his be... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | 'The newspapers' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Lafcadio Hearn | Life and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.' | Benjamin Newton | John Taylor | Junius identified or the identity of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a mor... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Henri Bergson | Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Arthur Schopenhauer | The World as Will and Idea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'. | Benjamin Newton | William Paley | Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'. | Benjamin Newton | Robert Walpole | Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one ... | Benjamin Newton | | bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of t... | Benjamin Newton | William Hutton | The life of William Hutton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.' | Benjamin Newton | John Macleod | Narrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Chalmers | A series of discourses on the Christian recelation | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I... | Benjamin Newton | John Macleod | Voyage of the Alceste | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]' | Benjamin Newton | grandfather of Benjamin Newton | [sermon] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' | Benjamin Newton | Vasily Golovnin | Narrative of my captivity in Japan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' | Benjamin Newton | Walter Scott | Rob Roy: By the author of Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Pegge | Anecdotes of the English language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with note... | Benjamin Newton | Sir John Sinclair | The Code of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with note... | Benjamin Newton | Bede | [The Ecclesiastical History] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His suppos... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades t... | Benjamin Newton | John Curwen | Observations on the State of Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology' | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gisborne | The Testimony of Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gisborne | The Testimony of Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor J... | Benjamin Newton | [Von Buch] | [a tour in Denmark] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused ... | Benjamin Newton | Richard Watson | Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty ne... | Benjamin Newton | [Erskine or T.E.] | Armata, a Fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day wi... | Benjamin Newton | [Von Buch] | [A Tour in Denmark] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]' | Benjamin Newton | [Von Buch] | [A Tour in Denmark] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode... | Benjamin Newton | William Derham | Physio Theology or a Demonstartion of the being | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | n/a | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she ... | Muriel Box | n/a | The Magnet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she ... | Muriel Box | n/a | The Gem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she ... | Muriel Box | n/a | The Boy's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her o... | Dorothy Burnham | n/a | The Magnet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | [unknown] | [account of Bounty mutiny] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Annotations] Written on Fol 1 recto, "Mechanics Institute Jan 1839" and on Fol 2 recto, in the same hand, "H.J.Batt E... | H.J. Batt | | Uxbridge & HIllingdon Literary & Mechanics Institute Terms of Subscription | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "To the Editors of the Attempt,
Gentlemen,
If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication ... | anon | | The Attempt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | "To the Editor,
Dear Sir,
I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a... | | | Uxbridge Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roma... | Florence Nightingale | Mrs Trimmer | New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman HIstory | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | " ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigr... | anon | Jonathan Edwards | Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychologic... | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | L. Margery Bazett | After-Death Communications | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gerhard Voss | Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, ha... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Godwin | Abbas | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | | [Wesleyan magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, ha... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe... | Gerald Massey | | [battle histories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | " ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 've... | John Ruskin | Philip Nichols | Sir Francis Drake Revived | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and c... | anon | Richard Watson | A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | " ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three ... | William Beckford | Stewarton | Revolutionary Plutarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains ... | anon | William Beckford | Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ... | General James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| 1700-1799 | " ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the ess... | Alexander Pope | Michel de Montaigne | essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of t... | Alexander Pope | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in ... | Alexander Pope | John Dennis | pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry | |
| 1700-1799 | In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about th... | Francis Douce | John Whitaker | History of Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortl... | Mary Astell | Pierre Bayle | Pensees diverses vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent h... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | annotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela | |
| 1700-1799 | "When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent h... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | annotations to Samuel Richardson, Clarissa | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | "Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hi... | Samuel Johnson | | religious work | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of Willia... | anon | William Mudford | Nubilia in Search of a Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's ... | Walter Savage Landor | | Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen... | anon | | LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' | Print: Book |
| | "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen... | | | annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | " ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]' | Benjamin Newton | Marco Polo | The Travels of Marco Polo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of... | Benjamin Newton | Marco Polo | The Travels of Marco Polo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode... | Benjamin Newton | Richard Hurd | Sermons [sermons preached at Lincolns Inn] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'. | Benjamin Newton | n/a | St. James' Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | The Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | William Derham | Physico Theology: or a Demonstration of the being | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | Archibald Campbell | A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'. | Benjamin Newton | Juvenal | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such... | Benjamin Newton | John Chetwode Eustace | A [classical] tour through Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | Lloyd | Lloyd's Penny Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | William Cobbett | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | French without a Master | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | [English history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | [Roman history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's... | Gerald Massey | | [Grecian history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read... | Gerald Massey | | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read... | Gerald Massey | | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Tom Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Volney | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Howitt | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Louis Blanc | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less ful... | Samuel Smiles | Gerald Massey | Lyrics of Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less ful... | Samuel Smiles | Gerald Massey | Songs of Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of b... | John Bedford Leno | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | Anti Corn Law League | [tracts] | |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | | The Northern Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | | New Moral World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out... | John Bedford Leno | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by th... | John Bedford Leno | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism." | John Bedford Leno | | [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings] | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, ... | John Bedford Leno | William Wordsworth | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, intere... | a Scotch physician | Falcon Harmonic Society | Notice of a Burns Supper | Print: Poster |
| 1450-1499 | 'In 1477 William Caxton presented his "History of Jason" to the 6-year-old future Edward V. Edward IV, the little prin... | King Edward V | William Caxton | History of Jason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a des... | John Cole | | European, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a ... | John Cole | | [books of topography and travel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive,... | John Cole | Robinson | Scripture Characters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive,... | John Cole | | Wonders of the vegetable kingdom, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...' | John Cole | James Hervey | Theron and Aspasio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.' | John Cole | Bradley | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.' | John Cole | Bradley | Sacred Lyre, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.' | John Cole | J Smith | advertisement | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' | John Cole | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | Bibliographical Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' | John Cole | David | Second tour round a Bibliomaniac's library | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of... | John Cole | | [poetry] | Manuscript: Handwritten in Album |
| 1800-1849 | 'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dr... | John Cole | Williamson | A Journal of a naturalist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was my practise on each Sunday of this summer to pray with him & read a sermon or portions of one to him, which ga... | John Cole | | [sermons] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return I found that the printed copy of a letter from the late Mr Hinderwell had been left at my shop.' | John Cole | | [printed letter] | Print: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read W Trimmer's Sacred History.' | John Cole | W Trimmer | Sacred History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Horne Tooke | Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors,... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Letters of Madame de Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rabutin de Bussy in his little way, is also delightful...' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy | Les Lettres de Messire Roger de Rabutin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Letters of Madame de Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's "Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent" - A mo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Louis-Pierre Anquetil | Louis XIV, Sa Cour et le Regent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have opened no other book, save the "Monthly Review" and "Appendix" since I came home... A book that I am sure woul... | Sarah Harriet Burney | n/a | The Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Adelaide Filleul, Countess de Flahaut | Eugenie et Mathilde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Mary Leadbetter and Maria Edgeworth | Cottage Dialogues Amongst the Irish Peasantry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principle... | H. B. L. Webb | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavill... | William Blake | Johann Lavater | Aphorisms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge, annotation to Schelling: "'A book, I value, I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasonin... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | F. W. J. von Schelling | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'" | William Blake | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Mat... | John Horne Tooke | Joseph Priestley | Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne." | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | "Ezra Pound, having acquired a copy of Algernon Swinburne's Laus Veneris already annotated by somebody else, took pain... | Ezra Pound | | annotations in copy of Algernon Swinburne, Laus Veneris | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Edmund Burke | A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | The Advancement of Learning | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes pencilled marginalia by Harriet Martineau in her copy of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bron... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... [S. T. Coleridge's] copy of Quentin Durward includes a note that reveals his sense of public duty as an annotato... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "Coleridge's many notes to Jeremy Taylor's Polemicall Discourses include some addressed to the author directly ('A sop... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | Polemicall Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Nathaniel Wraxall | Historical Memoirs of My Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Samuel Johnson | Letters | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Observations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] voluminously annotated a Bible for [William Augustus, Lord] Conway's mother." | Hester Lynch Piozzi | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses extensive annotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1818 copy of Rasselas in the Houghton Library,... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson discusses Rupert Brooke's pencilled notes, "clearly made out on a single reading," in copy of Raymond Ma... | Rupert Brooke | Raymond Macdonald Alden | Introduction to Poetry for Students of English Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson notes recollection of friend of Rupert Brooke, of Brooke in a canoe c.1910-11: "'he would keep the paddl... | Rupert Brooke | ?John ?Webster | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... T... | Rupert Brooke | | Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... T... | Rupert Brooke | | books on metre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Rupert Brooke to Jacques Raverat, April 1909: "'I have done no 'work' for ages: and my tripos is in a few weeks ... T... | Rupert Brooke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson discusses T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928)... | T. H. White | C. G. Jung | Two Essays on Analytical Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Si... | T. H. White | Sigmund Freud | Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Si... | T. H. White | Alfred Adler | Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | Bibliographical Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | Delany | Life of King David | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | John Gay | Choir, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Archdeacon Wranghan | Lines on the sea bathing infirmary at Scarborough | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | George Berrett | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Hermione Ballantyre | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Malvina [pseud.] | [poetry] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: A poem on the verso of the title page, though not entirely legible, appears to be related to the text. I... | B.B. Preston | Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, | La femme docteur ou la theologie tombee en quenouille comedie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m reading "Of Human Bondage" of Somerset Maugham & it?s terribly good ? some wonderful school stuff, & of course th... | Peter Pears | Somerset Maughan | Of Human Bondage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall... | Benjamin Britten | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [religious poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939:
'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Tor... | Benjamin Britten | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was delighted to hear that the performance was so good, Sophie. I hear you have never sung better and I know what t... | Benjamin Britten | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so ... | Benjamin Britten | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '- have you ever read a book called "1066 & all that" ?i t's very funny, & one of the authors is on board.'
| Benjamin Britten | R J Yeatman | 1066 and all that | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f... | Benjamin Britten | Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin | Boris Godonof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ?One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f... | Benjamin Britten | Hans Christian Anderson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoyed the poem ? please send all the new ones ? I always carry ?madrigal? in my pocket!'
| Benjamin Britten | Wulff Scherchen | [poem] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Referring to a concert in New York where one of his pieces was performed:
'The write-ups have been marvellous ? so I ... | Benjamin Britten | | [concert review] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'
| Benjamin Britten | Benvenuto Cellini | Autobiography | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs rea... | Peter Pears | Shakespeare | Art of Singing, The | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs real... | Peter Pears | W A Aiken | The Voice: An Introduction to Practical Phonology | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds wi... | Hannah Macaulay | Germaine de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.? | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Robert Southey | Thalaba | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Elizabeth Montague | [essay on Shakespeare] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | History of James I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa... | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest his... | Lord Macaulay | Thucydides | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.' | Lord Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.
The second in January and the begin... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * ... | James Ker | John Burke | A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire ? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head ... | Arnold Bennett | | [history] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marke... | John Drummond Erskine | Helvetius | A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Unknown, proofs of book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by an... | James Ker | Edmund Lodge | The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to ... | John Drummond Erskine | William Tennant | Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | William Wordsworth | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | Robert Southey | | The Works of the British Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | annotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works of the British Poets | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1800-1849 | "In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Es... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T... | Arnold Bennett | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in cop... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Browne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, w... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Daniel | The History of the Civil War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, w... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Daniel | The History of the Civil War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charles Lamb's response to reading marginal comments by S. T. Coleridge in his copy of Samuel Daniel's Poetical Works,... | Charles Lamb | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | annotations to Samuel Daniel's poetry | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Barry Cornwall | Dramatic Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Tennyson Turner | Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel... | James Leigh Hunt | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had kn... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader... | Mr L. | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Conten... | John Drummond Erskine | Francis Gladwin | Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te... | John Gibson Lockhart | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | | Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Manuscript: annotation in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Edmund Law's annotations to family Bible, which includes both original and copied commentary, ... | Edmund Law | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Queen Charlotte's responsive "extra-illustration" of text of her copy of An Apology for the Li... | Queen Charlotte | Colley Cibber | An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian ... with an Historical View of the Stage During his Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a t... | John Drummond Erskine | Hafiz | The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His... | anon | Mrs Henry Sandford | Thomas Poole and His Friends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" by Philip Gosse of his grandfather, Edmund Gosse's Life of Philip Henry Gosse... | Philip Gosse | Edmund Gosse | Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S. | Unknown |
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1800-1849 | Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and in... | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | | Illustrated Chatterton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pa... | Richard Clark | Isabella Spence | How to be Rid of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pa... | Richard Clark | Richard Clark | Reminiscences of Handel, His Grace the Duke of Chandos, Powells the Harpers ... The Harmonious Blacksmith, and Others. With a List of the Anthems Composed at Commons, by Handel, for the Duke of Chandos. And an Appendix [containing wills] | |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. ... | John Drummond Erskine | | Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses William George Thompson's annotations to Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith (inclu... | William George Thompson | Joanna Southcott | The Strange Effects of Faith | |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses John Horseman's annotations to, and insertions in, his first edition copy of William Godwin, M... | John Horseman | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contai... | anon | | guide to Salisbury Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .' | Arnold Bennett | William Charles Macready | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.' | Miss Law | Arnold Bennett | Pretty Lady, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...an article of his in the Daily News on 21 November, blaming Liberal leadership, produced from Asquith himself "a p... | Herbert Asquith | Arnold Bennett | article in the 'Daily News' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a fr... | Miss Erskine | Robert Lowth | A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Serm... | clergyman | Henry Blunt | Sermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well ... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Horace Walpole | Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Silvio Pellico | Prisons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.' | Sir Walter Raleigh | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.' | Sir Walter Raleigh | James Martineau | Types of Ethical Theory | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian ass... | Sir Walter Raleigh | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on th... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Arthur Helps | Realmah | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin... | Sir Walter Raleigh | [unknown] | [Life of Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Samuel Rogers | Pleasures of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.' | Sir Walter Raleigh | Plato | Banquet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never fail... | Lord Alfred Milner | Plato | Phaedo | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When her novels were finished, she would take them up herself to Gerald Duckworth at 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Gard... | Elinor Glyn | Elinor Glyn | [novels] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'C.H. Rolph... picked up [a message that "well-trained impis could outwit upper-class English duffers"] from S. Clarke... | C.H. Rolph | S. Clarke Hook | [Jack, Sam and Pete stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes o... | William Lax | W.H.G. Kingston | Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stret... | children and mothers | Hesba Stretton | Jessica's First Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stret... | children and mothers | Mrs O.F. Walton | Christie's Old Organ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stre... | children and mothers | Brenda New | Froggy's Little Brother | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stre... | children and mothers | Amy Le Feuvre | [pious fiction] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand] | John Byrom | William Wollaston | The Religion of Nature Delineated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lu... | John Byrom | n/a | The Daily Courant | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses a... | John Byrom | anon | [Verse on Lord Cateret] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Amy Le Feuvre | [pious novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Hesba Stretton | [pious novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Mrs O.F. Walton | [pious novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes' | John Byrom | John Bramhall | Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Frederick Marryat | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Kenneth Grahame | [probably The Wind in the Willows etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Edith Nesbit | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library' | John Henry Ott | William Shakespereare | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler' | John Henry Ott | n/a | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind... | Elinor Glyn | Richard Ingalese | History and Power of Mind, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | [anon] | [ballads] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | anon | Parismus and Parismenus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | [unknown] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | Daniel Fenning | Algebra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbric... | Anne Tibble | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Waste Land | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbric... | Anne Tibble | John Clare | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | The Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copy of John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) annotated by Eliza Loui... | Eliza Louisa Emmerson | John Clare | Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands... | Chester Armstrong | John Ruskin | The Crown of Wild Olives | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task. | Anna Seward | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradua... | anon | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributio... | Francis Palgrave | Alfred Russel Wallace | Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | T. J. Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of... | Francis Hargrave | Edward Coke | The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; or, A Commentary upon Littleton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Jules Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Thomas Henry Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] seco... | Benjamin Dockray | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world comb... | Edward Davy Harrop | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson discusses Max Beerbohm's "doctored copy of Queen Victoria's More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in th... | Max Beerbohm | Queen Victoria | More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | David Ricardo | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Herbert Spencer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Thomas Henry Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | John Stuart Mill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'. | Edward Davy Harrop | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a vo... | Samuel Parr | John Morfitt | poems in poems including Lines on Hatton | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a vo... | Samuel Parr | Joseph Weston | poems including Written on Returning from Lichfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Jeremy Bentham's annotations (including highlightings and marginal comments) to eight pamphlets by... | Jeremy Bentham | Edmund Burke | pamphlets including Observations on a late State of the Nation London: Dodsley, 1769) | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | anon | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet, sheet from an exercise book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses expansive annotations made in ink by Edward Gibbon in copy of Herodotus, including corrections... | Edward Gibbon | Herodotus | Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous ... | Granville Sharp | Samuel Estwick | Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called | |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel... | James Leigh Hunt | William Wycherley | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel... | Charles Lamb | William Wycherley | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books... | William Beckford | Samuel Johnson | Diary of a Journey into North Wales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the... | Edmund Ferrars | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ... | John James Raven | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic ... | Horatio Nelson | Helen Maria Williams | Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towrds the Close of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a... | Henry Shorthouse | John Keble | The Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a... | Henry Shorthouse | John Keble | The Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a... | Henry Shorthouse | John Keble | The Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in ... | Thomas Gray | William Verral | A Complete System of Cookery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. J. Jackson notes handwritten insertion of names of persons identified only by initials in H. Giles's copy of B. L.... | H. Giles | B. L. Putnam Weale | Indiscreet Letters from Peking | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by i... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | | The Imperial Family Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817)... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | James Andrew Pettit | Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a r... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Sedgwick | Hints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage... | Thomas Browne | Paracelsus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote "'N.B. Spit... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Donne | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinr... | Joseph Henry Green | Novalis | Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2) | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Mar... | John Horseman | Maria Edgeworth | Letters for Literary Ladies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Christopher Marlowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Ben Jonson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Thomas Chatterton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Leigh Hunt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | John Fletcher | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Francis Beaumont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | anon | [Deadeye Dick stories] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Henry James | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | A.E. Coppard | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Joseph Conrad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | John Galsworthy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Willa Cather | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | anon | Dick Whittington and his Cat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Dying Swan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured... | John Masefield | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his ... | John Masefield | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Parliament of Fowls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of... | | Richard Watson | A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy... | anon | Samuel Saunders | A Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic Botany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | John Haslemere | Gerard Langbaine | An Account of the English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | Richard Wright | Gerard Langbaine | An Account of the English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | George Steevens | Thomas Percy | annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | George Steevens | William Oldys | annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | Thomas Percy | Gerard Langbaine | An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | William Oldys | Gerard Langbaine | An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revi... | Francis Douce | John Brand | Observations on Popular Antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779). | Francis Douce | James Granger | Biographical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The... | Francis Douce | John Whitaker | The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The... | Francis Douce | John Whitaker | The History of Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of L... | anon | | The New School of Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with... | anon | Justinian | The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by Thomas Collett Sandars | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samu... | Fulke Greville | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. | Livy | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. | Vegetius | De Re Militari (Epitoma rei militaris) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. | Frontinus | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1576-77, just before Philip Sidney went o... | Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | Jean Bodin | Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | Jean Bodin | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv... | Gabriel Harvey | Juan Luis Vives | Commentary to St Augustine, De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney w... | Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney | T. Livii Patavini | Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney w... | Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney | Frontinus | Stratagems | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading of Lambert Daneau's... | Gabriel Harvey | Lambert Daneau | Politicorum aphorismorum silva | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotati... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Art of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "... | Arnold Bennett | T. S. Eliot | Criterion, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediatel... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Lost Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old South... | Arnold Bennett | F. Sommer Merryweather | Lives and Anecdotes of Misers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he read widely about working-class life in the district.' | Arnold Bennett | unknown | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelp... | Arnold Bennett | Mioddleton Murry | Adelphi, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rug... | Pauline Smith | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book, proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu... | Anna Seward | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu... | Elizabeth Montagu | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Peter Pindar | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you t... | Frances Boscawen | Denis Diderot | Les bijous indiscrets | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "re... | Robert Boyle | Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo | Amadis de Gaule | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confes... | | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Dr Shuckford | Dr Shuckford's Connection | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Hooker | Laws of ecclesiastical polity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandal... | Elizabeth Carter | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constantia Phillips | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a ... | Faith Gray | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasi... | Frances Burney | Thucydides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting w... | | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Cicero | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on ... | Adam Sedgwick | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.] | Adam Sedgwick | William Paley | Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Thomas Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Xenophon | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Tacitus | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Virgil | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Lloyd transcribed 16 lines from this 24 line Hymn onto the verso of a printed form with the title 'Duties Returned in... | Edward Lloyd | Isaac Watts | Hymn 69: Christ Appearing to His Church | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the... | James Watson | | [A history of Europe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by th... | James Watson | | [A history of England] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one even... | James Watson | n/a | [a 'bill' advertising a meeting]. | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roma... | James Watson | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one eve... | Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first became acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one ev... | Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds | n/a | The Black Dwarf | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one eve... | Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds | Richard Carlile | Republican | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the ... | William Richard Grahame | Joseph Bouchette | The British Dominions in North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.' | William Richard Grahame | David Thompson | History of the Late War Between Great Britain and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.' | William Richard Grahame | n/a | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.' | William Richard Grahame | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' | William Richard Grahame | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Ph... | William Richard Grahame | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Ph... | William Richard Grahame | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' | William Richard Grahame | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia... | William Richard Grahame | n/a | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Ireland from an extract from the Dublin Evening Post that I read yesterday, it appears, as far as I can remember, ... | William Richard Grahame | n/a | Dublin Evening Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing... | William Richard Grahame | William Dunlop | 'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of Uppe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the... | William Richard Grahame | n/a | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Dunn has Grainger's "Biographical History of England". A medallion of Cromwell is mentioned having Oliver's head e... | William Richard Grahame | James Granger | A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography. There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chap... | William Richard Grahame | James Granger | A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continuing the arrangement of Plates for Grainger and have met with several anecdotes worth noting [on Elizabeth I, C... | William Richard Grahame | James Granger | A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'. | William Richard Grahame | n/a | National Gazette (Philadelphia) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...' | William Richard Grahame | n/a | ['The English Papers'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived. I read Sir Jon... | William Richard Grahame | n/a | The Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the Athenaeum I read the papers and ... Advice to a Young Man and Padre.' | William Richard Grahame | n/a | ['the papers'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...' | William Richard Grahame | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". S... | Frances Burney | James Cook | Voyage to the Pacific Ocean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She ... | Frances Burney | Marie de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Life of Waller | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron... | Frances Burney | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Samuel James Arnold | The Creole | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Lady Morgan | The Missionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' | Frances Burney | | some new novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' | Frances Burney | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Lady Morgan | The Novice of Saint Dominick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Agnes Maria Bennett | The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of a Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Regina Maria Roche | The Children of the Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Lawrence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book ... | Harriet Grove | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Walter Scott | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Robert Southey | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Constantin Volney | Les ruines | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | James Lawrence | The Empire of the Nairs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ... | Harriet Westbrook | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | [MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but di... | Gabriel Harvey | George Gascoigne | The Posies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying ... | Hester Thrale | Joseph Addison | The spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading... | Janet Schaw | Lord Kames | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, inst... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read much Shakespeare.' | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the... | Anna Larpent | William Mason | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Sedgwick to William Ainger dated 22/5/1815 says the former is reading Beasobre, and 'the task is a confoun... | Adam Sedgwick | Issac de Beasobre | Introduction to the reading of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [edi... | Ellen Weeton | Mary Ann Hanway | Ellinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: pa... | Ellen Weeton | John Agg | The Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close of | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculi... | Benjamin Newton | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old Mortal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in co... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | St James' Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by slee... | Benjamin Newton | James Hingston Tuckey | Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Za | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops w... | Rev Benjamin Newton | n/a | St. James' Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'. | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'. | Adam Mackie | Daniel Defoe | History of the Devil or The Political History of t | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.' | Adam Mackie | Daniel Defoe | The Political History of the Devil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an ... | William Upcott | Jean Francois Marmontel | Moral Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he poin... | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading "Gregory's Legacy"- He is one of my favorite author... | William Upcott | John Gregory | A Father's Legacy to His Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.' | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I... | William Upcott | George Gregory | The Life of T. Chatterton or The Works of T. Chatt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening until one was [frittered?] away in reading the 'Monk' for the fourth time at least.... In the second volu... | William Upcott | Matthew G. Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening I read the whole of "Love and Madness"- not on account of the amorous epistles of Hackman, but with a ... | William Upcott | James Hackman | Love and Madness; a Story Too True in a Series of... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From 9 till 11 was idly spent in looking thro a Volume of the British Critic.' | William Upcott | n/a | The British Critic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took from my pocket the volume of "Love and Madness" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read... | William Upcott | James Hackman | Love and Madness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Returns after afternoon reading session] to renew the subject from a more enlarged account of this wonder of the 18t... | William Upcott | Robert Southey | The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing his Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the rest of the evening when I returned home was devoted to the Bible.' | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before I arose- read 10 chapters of St. Matthew- still laboured at my new task [studying heraldry] but made less prog... | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went to bed at 11- but previous to it, read 10 more chapters of St. Matthew.' | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Previous to leaving my chamber, I read several Chapters of St. Mark.' | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took up my little volume of Heraldry- and already can take up a pep from a chevron.' | William Upcott | n/a | [volume on Heraldry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My time was occupied till 6 with the Bible.' | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I devoted the rest of the night to the Bible- so upon the whole I think, a sabbath has been more unprofitably spent...' | William Upcott | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- ... | William Upcott | Tobias George Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own ... | William Upcott | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda.... | William Upcott | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already... | John Masefield | Herman Melville | The Green Hand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already... | John Masefield | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | George du Maurier | Trilby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | George du Maurier | Peter Ibbetson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | Francois Villon | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | Alfred Louis Charles de Musset | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an... | John Masefield | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Richard Steele | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known exis... | John Masefield | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Edward Fitzgerald | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Prosper Merimee | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Walter Pater | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh... | John Masefield | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Chastelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh... | John Masefield | Algernon Charles Swinburne | [poem on the death of Baudelaire] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ... | Anna Larpent | James Thomson | Edward and Elinora | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose discip... | John Masefield | Wiliam Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition fr... | Anna Larpent | John Locke | Essay on human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss... | | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss... | | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss... | | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well ... | Anna Larpent | James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Galliciae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | [n/a] | Roget's Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | Friedrich Nietzsche | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | F.H. Bradley | Appearance and Reality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed... | Anna Larpent | Lord Monboddo | Of the origin and progress of language | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | Immanuel Kant | Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | Thorstein Veblen | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a co... | Anna Larpent | | Les mille et une nuits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | [probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | James Joyce | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Ezra Pound | article in The New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id... | Edwin Muir | Friedrich Nietzsche | The Twilight of the Idols | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id... | Edwin Muir | Friedrich Nietzsche | Ecce Homo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading .... | Anna Larpent | | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit t... | Anna Larpent | Daniel Defoe | Tour through the whole island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re... | Anna Larpent | Ramsay | a dialogue on taste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the house party where Anna met the Bishop of Llandaff, guests took it in turns to read to one another. On 1 July 1... | Clara | Rollin | Histoire ancienne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she desc... | Anna Larpent | Thomas Paine | Rights of man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversat... | Anna Larpent | Joseph Priestley | On the origin of government | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversatio... | John Larpent | Joseph Priestley | On the origin of government | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | John Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | Anna Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Consta... | stepson of Anna Larpent | Sutherland | Tour of Constantinople | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Consta... | Anna Larpent | Sutherland | Tour of Constantinople | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental... | Anna Larpent | Pierre Marivaux | Marienne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manne... | Anna Larpent | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ectsasie... | Clare Cameron | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Friedrich Nietzsche | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Karl Marx | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Henri Murger | Scenes de la Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ... | Bonar Thompson | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ... | Bonar Thompson | Andre Gide | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | George Gissing | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Herbert George Wells | [unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, ... | Ethel Mannin | Gertrude Stein | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Wordsworth | Prelude, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to ... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | George du Maurier | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | W.J. Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Hilaire Belloc | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that ... | Joseph Conrad | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.' | Arnold Bennett | Gertrude Stein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote ... | Arnold Bennett | John Middleton Murry | Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him ... | Arnold Bennett | Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artis... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .' | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Mercury, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Waste Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | David Herbert Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | [unknown] | John O' London's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | [n/a] | The Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | William MacDougall | Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | F.A. Servante | Psychology of the Boy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Matthew Arnold | The Forsaken Merman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Rupert Brooke | Grantchester | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Thomas Stearns Eliot | 'The Waste Land' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | [unknown] | [Russian literature] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Emily Dickinson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often... | Virginia Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to... | Lord Beaverbrook | Arnold Bennett | Lord Raingo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .' | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, i... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | [review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clissold"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | George Sandys | A relation of a journey begun Anno Dom. 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish empire, of AEGYPT, [etc] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Moll Neville | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | George Sandys | A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'The 12... | Moll Neville | Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote:
"'My Coz... | Maria | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote:
"'My Coz... | Wat Conniston | Josephus | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | Robert Parson | The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | Thomas Sorocold | Supplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... Wherein are three most excellent prayers made by Queene Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | | "lady's book of praise of a solitary life" | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | | "book of the preaparation to the sarament" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | Richard Johnson | The Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction of Troy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Gesta Romanorum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Seven wise masters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Chinese tales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Parismos and Parismenes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | Richard Johnson | The honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of Don Belianis of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | The History of Captain Freney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "William Carleton got the perusal of Gil Blas from a 'pedlar, who carried books about for sale, with a variety of othe... | William Carleton | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or t... | William Carleton | | Amoranda, or the reformed coquette | |
| 1800-1849 | "In Holywood at the time of the peninsular war 'several would join to buy a number of the Belfast News-letter or of th... | people of Holywood, Ulster | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | Robert Browning | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c... | Seamus MacManus | | popular chapbooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Stur... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc... | Gwen Raverat | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'. | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Brothers Karamazov, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just be... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfacto... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her s... | [unknown] Jebb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki... | Gwen Raverat | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo... | Gwen Raverat | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | | [classics in original languages] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | Sophocles | Oedipus at Colonus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying... | Gwen Raverat | Thomas Bewick | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on... | Gwen Raverat | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled the... | Henrietta Litchfield | Jean Ingelow | Don John | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Susan Warner | The Wide Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Little Duke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Harriet Martineau | Settlers at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Frederick Marryat | The Children of the New Forest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Elizabeth Anna Hart | The Runaway | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | George Macdonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.' | Thomas Turner | Richard Steele | The Conscious Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of "The Spectator"; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed ... | Thomas Turner | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at home all day. Read part of Hervey's "Meditations".' | Thomas Turner | James Hervey | Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensi... | Charlotte Mary Yonge | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day a-writing. In the even read "The Universal Magazine" for December; think the following observations w... | Thomas Turner | | The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for ... | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even began Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant". Read his "Life" and the "Eulogium" on it by M. Fountenelle. ... | Thomas Turner | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Voyage into the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".' | Thomas Turner | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Voyage into the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".' | Thomas Turner | Joseph Addison | Cato, A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".' | Thomas Turner | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Voyage into the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Roth... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memories | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .' | Arnold Bennett | W Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].' | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Virgin and the Gipsy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.' | Arnold Bennett | J.W. Dunne | Experiment with Time, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work... | Thomas Carlyle | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of a simple thing called "The West Country Clothier" and, notwithstanding the meanness of the l... | Thomas Turner | anon | The West County Clothier | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England ... | Thomas Turner | anon | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign... | Thomas Turner | anon | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.' | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.' | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".' | Thomas Turner | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular o... | Thomas Turner | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I thi... | Thomas Turner | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".' | Thomas Turner | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensi... | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which show... | Peggy Turner | | The Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".' | Anna Larpent | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of suff... | Anna Larpent | William Smellie | Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or wo... | Anna Larpent | various | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power ... | Anna Larpent | Hannah More | Percy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work... | Anna Larpent | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision]. | Henry More | Aristotle | Mechanicks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a les... | Anna Seward | Thomas Gisborne | [conduct books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even T Davy brought a p[ai]r Shoes for my nephew and stayed and Supp'd w[i]th us and I read him the 4th of Til... | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Cl... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by pray... | Thomas Turner | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Voyage into the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.' | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature ... | Maria Josepha Holroyd | Germaine de Stael | Delphine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Delaney frequently discussed her reading of plays.' | Mary Delany | | plays | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "... | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she ... | Elizabeth Montagu | John Hawkesworth | An account of voyages... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Mont... | Elizabeth Montagu | James Bruce | Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read alou... | Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) | Aphra Benn | Delphine | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. C... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Newspaper |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: 4 lines of ms notes on the binding page are now rubbed and difficult to decipher but appear to be notes ... | | George Burder | Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently serious. Interspersed with familiar dialogues, emblematical pictures, prayers, graces and hymns. Recommended by the Rev. Mr. Peckwell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a sh... | | | The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New; translated out of the original tongues, ? | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus... | | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Ha... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.' | Peggy Turner | | unknown sermon | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.' | Thomas Turner | | unknown sermon | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present tim... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.' | Peggy Turner | | The Freeholder | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Elles and I read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying v... | Benjamin Tooke | | seditious book | Print: unbound printed sheets |
| 1700-1799 | 'Joseph Fuller Jun. And Tho. Durrant drank some Coffee with me... to whom I read One of Tillotson's Sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin... | William Prynne | Giles Widdowes | Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin... | | Giles Widdowes | Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin... | anon ("others") | Giles Widdowes | Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan | Print: Book, proof copy |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy Spent the Even and Supp'd at our house and read 2 of Tillotsons sermons to us.' | Tho Davy | John Tillotson | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his... | Thomas Bennett | | "useful Discourses" | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'." | Henry Oldenburg | James Harrington | The Common-Wealth of Oceana | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'" | Samuel Pepys | | books on laws and statutes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of]... | Robert Boyle | | romances including Amadis de Gaulle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Per... | Robert Boyle | | Quintus Curtius | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and woul... | Robert Boyle | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himse... | Robert Boyle | | Quintus Curtius | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most ... | Robert Boyle | Rene Descartes | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most ... | Robert Boyle | Rene Descartes | Passions | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Chil... | Abraham Cowley | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | " ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been... | Ellen | Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se... | John Rogers | | transcribed sermons | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se... | John Rogers | | morning and evening prayers | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se... | John Rogers | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot,... | Francis Bishop | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought up... | anon | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series ... | Henry More | Aristotle | Mechanics | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series ... | Henry More | Ptolemy | Geographia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's... | Meric Casaubon | | bogus work on Etruscan antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's... | Meric Casaubon | | bogus work on Etruscan antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | "[Robert] Hooke had been able to read letters in what would otherwise be reckoned darkness, thanks to one of his artif... | Robert Hooke | | letters | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner ... | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant" wherein I find the following remark: They breed (says... | Thomas Turner | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | Voyage into the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.' | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it mu... | Peggy Turner | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".' | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the writings of a farm called Chillys in Mayfield, which was entailed to Mrs Virgoe's father and his... | Thomas Turner | | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: ms note in Latin on inside front cover may or may not be connected with the text as the book has evidenc... | William Erskine | Virgil | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the ... | John Drummond Erskine | Joseph Emin | The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | | french romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Eliza Haywood | various novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | various works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Catherine Talbot | Katherine Phillips | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Rowe | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by ... | Elizabeth Carter | Emilie de Chatelet | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she fin... | Elizabeth Carter | Helen Maria Williams | various books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth C... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Trotter Cockburn | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Ta... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Siege of Jerusalem, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Ta... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ariosto | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi... | John Drummond Erskine | Ovid | Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Gram... | Thomas Turner | Patrick Gordon | Geography anatomized: or a compleat geographical grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read several numbers of the "Freeholder" which I think is a proper book for anyone to look into at this c... | Thomas Turner | | The Monitor; or the British Freeholder | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, wh... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the ... | Thomas Turner | | Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read some of "The History of England".' | Thomas Turner | | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio".' | Thomas Turner | James Hervey | Theron and Aspasio: or, a series of dialogues and letters upon the most important and interesting subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the ac... | Thomas Turner | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons and which I think a very good one.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no... | Thomas Turner | [Byng] | An appeal to the people: containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr[etary] of the Ad[miralt]y | |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wi... | Thomas Turner | George Bally | The Wisdom of the Supreme Being | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.' | Thomas Turner | John Locke | An essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read 4 of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even Tho. Davy sat with us about 3 hours and to whom and in the day I read 7 of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even in reading the "Lewes Journal" I found the following remarkable character, which I admire not for the dic... | Thomas Turner | | Lewes Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read a sermon preached at this church on the 1st of August 1716 by the Rev. Mr Richard Haworth on the won... | Thomas Turner | Richard Haworth | [Sermon] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of ... | Thomas Turner | William Burkitt | The poor man's help and the young man's guide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the foll... | Thomas Turner | | The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day read in the "Gazette" of the 20th instant that the King of Prussia had on the 6th instant gained a complete ... | Thomas Turner | | The London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Today in reading "The London Magazine" for May, I find the following description of a comet that is shortly expected ... | Thomas Turner | | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of "The Universal Magazine" for June wherein I find the following receipt recommended (in an extract from D... | Thomas Turner | | The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading Josephus's "Jewish Antiques" I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) t... | Thomas Turner | Flavius Josephus | The antiques of the Jews | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening read one of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even Tho. Davy to our house, to whom I read a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr James Hervey, A.M., rector of Wes... | Thomas Turner | James Hervey | The time of danger, and the means of safety; to which is added, the way of holiness. Being the substance of three sermons preached on the late public fast days | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | Bible, the | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | Godey's Lady's Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | anon | Little Katey and Jolly Jim | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | [novels for adults] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | History of the World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | [Christian books and missionary tracts] | Print: Book, religious tracts |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Alexander Macneill | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Alexander Macneill | | [newspaper from Charlottetown] | Print: Newspaper, Daily |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | Wide Awake magazine - serialised story | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | unknown | The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left be... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | | A Bad Boy's Diry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of the 5th volume of "Medical Essays and Observations", published at Edinburgh by a society of ... | Thomas Turner | anon | Medical Essays and Observations, revised and published by a society in Edinburgh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen... | Magdalene Sharpe Erskine | Alexander Macaulay | A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy at our house in the even, to whom, and in the day, I read 6 of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. Sh... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | unknown | The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank ve... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobl... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of the Seven Gables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Washington Irving | The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Beatrix Potter | Peter Rabbit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Charlotte Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Edith Wharton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Olive Schreiner | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the play of "Tamerlane", wrote by Rowe, which I think a very good play; the character of Tamerlane i... | Thomas Turner | Nicholas Rowe | Tamerlane | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'About 5.40 I set out to the house from which John Carter was this day buried in order to read the will of the decease... | Thomas Turner | John Carter | [will] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading "The Gazette" for the 22nd instant I find the King of Prussia, with about 20,000, has beat the combined fo... | Thomas Turner | | The London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the... | Thomas Turner | | [almanacs] | Print: Broadsheet, almanac |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading o... | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading o... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.' | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The ... | | Robert Lambe | An exact and circumstantial history of the battle of Floddon in verse written about the time of Queen Elizabeth. In which are related many particular facts not to be found in the English history[...] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note at foot of p.8 of Appendix: 'J. Claver ...[ J. Clavering is the first signatory of the letter on... | N.S. Cornith | Joseph Price | Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; on the latter part of the late report of the Select Committee on the state of justice in Bengal. With some curious particulars and original anecdotes concerning the forgery committed by Maha Rajah Nundcomar Bahadar[...] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Incl... | Royal Society | | Society minutes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | " ... in the [Royal] Society ... date of publication could override date of registration. Walter Needham made this ex... | Walter Needham | Reginald de Graaf | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactio... | Royal Society | Edmond Halley | paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hoo... | Robert Hooke | Henry Oldenburg | review of Robert Hooke, Description of Helioscopes | Print: Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium. | John Flamsteed | Edmond Halley | Catalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum ... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [s... | John Flamsteed | Robert Hooke | Cometa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] som... | anon | Isaac Newton | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar posi... | Isaac Newton | John Flamsteed | astronomical calculations (lunar positions) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing withou... | John Flamsteed | John Flamsteed | sections of catalogue of stars | Print: sheets |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] i... | Edmond Halley | John Flamsteed | catalogue of stars | |
| 1700-1799 | "As late as 1782 ... [Caroline Herschel] would employ a telescope to 'sweep' the sky for comets, with her brother Will... | Caroline and William Herschel | John Flamsteed | Atlas Coelestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed corresp... | Charles Babbage | Abraham Sharp | shorthand writings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by auth... | | Anon | Frederic le Grand | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | [Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Tak... | Andrew Greirson | Nicholas Culpeper | Pharmacopoeia Londinensis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or ... | John Drummond Erskine | Stephen Weston | A specimen of the conformity of the European languages | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Chri... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse],... | Elizabeth Darwin | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out t... | Thomas Turner | | The Monitor; or the British Freeholder | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi... | Gwen Raverat | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is... | | Jonathan Pereira | Treatise on food and diet, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian tr... | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten... | William Darwin | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten... | William Darwin | Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten... | William Darwin | | [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock... | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | William Shakespeare | [Histories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq... | George Darwin | (ed.) Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even finished reading of Horneck's "Great Law of Consideration", which I think a very good subject, and I am t... | Thomas Turner | Anthony Horneck | The great law of consideration; or, a discourse, wherein the nature, usefulness and absolute necessity of consideration, in order to a truly serious and religious life is laid open | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still su... | George Darwin | Stendhal (pseud -Marie-Henri Beyle) | Le Rouge et le Noir | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to... | Ellen Crofts | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive... | Thomas Turner | Daniel Dobel | Primitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to revive the ancient mode or manner of preaching the gospel | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to... | Ellen Crofts | (probably) William Ernest Henley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive... | Thomas Turner | | The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Mildred was a fanatical teetotaller; and took in, believe it or not, a periodical called "The Journal of Inebriety"'. | Mildred Massingberd | | The Journal of Inebriety | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt f... | Thomas Turner | | The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".' | Thomas Turner | Richard Allestree | The new whole duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort... | Gwen Raverat | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Daisy Chain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort... | Gwen Raverat | Susan Warner | The Wide Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".' | Thomas Turner | Richard Burn | The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | Robert Browning | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Leadbetter's "General Gauger".' | Thomas Turner | Charles Leadbetter | The royal gauger; or gauging made perfectly easy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | | Bible, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sh... | Thomas Turner | Richard Allestree | The whole new duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sh... | Thomas Turner | William Sherlock | A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I ver... | Henrietta Darwin | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of "The London Magazine" for February.' | Thomas Turner | | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".' | Thomas Turner | Arthur Collins | The peerage of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".' | Thomas Turner | Arthur Collins | The peerage of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of "The Peerage of England".' | Thomas Turner | Arthur Collins | The peerage of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even finished reading Wake's "Catechism", which I think is a very good book and proper for all families, there... | Thomas Turner | William Wake | The principles of the Christain religion explained in a brief commentary upon the church catechism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my op... | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day I saw in the "Lewes Journal", which was an extract from "The Gazette", that our troops under the command of ... | Thomas Turner | | Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the lan... | Thomas Turner | John Gay | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".' | Thomas Turner | Thomas Salmon | A critical essay concerning marriage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appea... | Thomas Turner | Thomas Salmon | A critical essay concerning marriage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's ... | Henry James | Gustave Flaubert | correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had critici... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He oppos... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." | Henry James | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I ... | Henry James | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many Engl... | Henry James | | magazines and newspapers | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many Engl... | Henry James | | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have j... | Henry James | A. W. Kinglake | Eothen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | | The British Chronicle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | | bound weekly newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | Friedrich von Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numer... | Henry Fox | William Camden | The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been r... | Henry James | Robert Browning | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just be... | Henry James | Maurice de Guerin | Journals/Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just be... | Henry James | Eugenie de Guerin | Journals and Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolut... | Henry James | Vaughan | English Revolutions in Religion | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (Jul... | Matthew Arnold | Henry James | Review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with M... | Henry James | Harriet Beecher Stowe | [two or three works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here... | Henry James | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your le... | Henry James | Hippolyte Taine | Notes sur Paris, Vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Thomas Graindorge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your le... | Henry James | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | Nouveaux lundis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [Geor... | Henry James | George Sand | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, e... | Henry James | Matthew Arnold | New Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm... | Henry James | William James | Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good ... | Henry James | unknown | French texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Stendhal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Charles de Brosses | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Nathaniel Hawthorne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, in letter begun 10 March 1869 (continued on 12 March), on evening spent at home of William... | William Morris | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Francis Lord Bacon | essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence a... | Sarah Scott | Sarah Fielding | David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | | an account of the government in Venice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Thomas Randolph | his answer to Christianity not founded on argument | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Elizabeth Carter | Elizabeth Rowe | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Philips | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."' | Elizabeth Carter | Francois-Marie Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I... | Elizabeth Carter | Jean Jacques Rousseau | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Tobias Smollet | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Eliza Haywood | various novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Lennox | Henrietta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | many works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she... | Elizabeth Montagu | John Hawkesworth | An account of voyages undertaken... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1702 to 1771) drawn up from the Journals... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book ... | Harriet Grove | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of modern philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreci... | Arnold Bennett | W.L. Alden | article/review of "Anna of the Five Towns" | Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement |
| 1700-1799 | 'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I ha... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel |
| 1700-1799 | 'Methinks, Sir, Mr Pope might employ his Time, and his admirable Genius better than in exposing Insects of a Day: For... | Samuel Richardson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to i... | Samuel Richardson | Aaron Hill | Fanciad | Manuscript: Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript |
| 1700-1799 | '[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much... | Samuel Richardson | William Whitehead | Essay on Ridicule | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have bought Mr Pope over so often, and his "Dunciad" before his last new-vampt one, that I am tired of the Extrava... | Samuel Richardson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Mrs Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Miss Cheyne | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Freke | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Edward Young | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you... | Samuel Richardson | Sophia Westcomb | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoure... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find t... | Samuel Richardson | Pliny the Elder | [observations and transcriptions from work] | Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi... | Samuel Richardson | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi... | Susanna Highmore | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Susanna Highmore | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Samuel Richardson | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 af... | John Drummond Erskine | James Beattie | Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proport... | John Drummond Erskine | James Steuart | An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | | a number of novelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Jane West | A Tale of the Times and other works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Ann Radcliffe | A Sicilian Romance [and other novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, ami... | visitors staying at Great Malvern | | The Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, ami... | visitors staying at Great Malvern | | The Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: "[after crossing Bernadine pass] I ..... | Henry James | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Old Town Folks | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, from Lake Como: "I read yesterday in the Times the news of the defeat of t... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: "I have of course no company but my own [in Rom... | Henry James | Stendhal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of ... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | "reply to a 'Swedenborgian'" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Josephus's "Jewish Antiques".' | Thomas Turner | Flavius Josephus | The genuine works of Flavius Josephus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening read part of the "Jewish Antiques".' | Thomas Turner | Flavius Josephus | The genuine works of Flavius Josephus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After I came home, I read part of "The London Magazine" for October, as also a poor empty piece of tautology called "... | Thomas Turner | | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'After I came home, I read part of "The London Magazine" for October, as also a poor empty piece of tautology called "... | Thomas Turner | anon | A Serious Address to the Public, concerning the most probable means of avoiding the dangers of innoculation | |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Wiseman's "Chyrurgery".' | Thomas Turner | Richard Wiseman | Several Chirurgical Treatises | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Addison's "Evidences of the Christian Religion".' | Thomas Turner | Joseph Addison | The evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations". | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations". | Thomas Turner | James Hervey | Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the extraordinary "Gazette" for Wednesday, which gives an account of our army in America, under the ... | Thomas Turner | | The London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Derham's "Physico-Theology".' | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even and the day read 6 of Bishop Sherlock's sermons, which I think extremely good, there being sound reasonin... | Thomas Turner | Thomas Sherlock | Sermons on various subjects, moral and theological, now first published | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of Bracken's "Pocket Farrier", which I look upon as a very complete thing of its kind.' | Thomas Turner | Henry Bracken | The traveller's pocket-farrier: or a treatise upon the distempers and common incidents happening to horses upon a journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy agai... | Thomas Turner | Edmund Gibson | The evil and danger of lukewarmness in religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy agai... | Thomas Turner | Edmund Gibson | Trust in God the best remedy against fears of all kinds | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even Tho. Davy at our house, to whom I read three of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Young's "Night Thoughts".' | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | The complaint or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | Charles Drelincourt | The Christian's defence against the fears of death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the morning read part of a book entitled "A Defence of Plurality of Church Benefices", but I cannot be persuaded b... | Thomas Turner | Henry Wharton | A defence of pluralities, or, holding two benefices with cure of souls | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even Mr Tipper read to me part of a -I know not what to call it but "Tristram Shandy".' | Thomas Tipper | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Young's "Estimate of Human Life".' | Thomas Turner | Edward Young | A vindication of providence; or, a true estimate of human life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you seen two volumes called "Deism Revealed"? 'Tis a well written piece, and much approved here. I think it is n... | Samuel Richardson | Philip Skelton | Ophiomaches: or, Deism Revealed | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of work Richardson printed |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down ... | Samuel Richardson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with i... | Samuel Richardson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (1st vol.) | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.' | Samuel Richardson | Lord Orrery | Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Swift | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | articles on Swedenborg | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | "Is Marriage Holy?" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article." | Henry James | Robert Lowell | poem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article." | Henry James | William Dean Howells | "A Pedestrian Tour" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Charles de Brosses | Lettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Henry Crabbe Robinson | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Charles-Augustin Saint-Beuve | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870, regarding process of Italian unification: "[A] reflection I have ... v... | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870: "[At home in Cambridge] I take so much satisfaction in reading the pap... | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec... | Henry James | F. Harrison | article on Bismarck | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec... | Henry James | J. Morley | article on Byron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so tha... | Henry James | unknown | various works (dealing with Innsbruck) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickene... | Henry James | Leslie Stephen | The Playgrounds of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I... | Henry James | unknown | "lightish books" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 9 August 1871: "Every now and then I vaguely scheme to take up my valises and wal... | Henry James | | timetables | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Elizabeth Boott, 24 January 1872: "I heard read in MS. the other evening a new story by Bret Harte (for... | Henry James | Francis Bret Harte | [unidentified story] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Fors... | Henry James | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... [Henry James] would [after 1872] be a close reader of Renan ... whom he later met." | Henry James | Joseph Ernest Renan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): " ... I read the Figaro every day, religi... | Henry James | | Le Figaro | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though bu... | Henry James | William James | Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873: "Yesterday came an Atlantic with my Bethnal Green notice and its other r... | Henry James | | The Atlantic, including articles by Henry James and William Dean Howells | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent... | Frances Anne Kemble | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: "I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of J... | Henry James | | Roman newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very... | Henry James | unknown | Italian texts | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster.... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | anecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster") | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Midd... | Henry James | William James | "criticism of Middlemarch" | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sam. Jenner drank tea with me, and to whom in the evening I read two of Tillotson's sermons.' | Thomas Turner | John Tillotson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ... | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ... | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | The taming of the shrew | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the fatigue of the day was over, I read part of Shakespeare's "Works".' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Shakespeare's "Works", which I think extreme good in their kind.' | Thomas Turner | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Beveridge's "Thoughts".' | Thomas Turner | William Beveridge | Private thoughts upon religion digested into twelve articles, with practical resolutions form'd thereupon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read several political papers called "The North Briton", which are wrote by John Wilkes Esq., member for ... | Thomas Turner | John Wilkes | The North Briton | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | | Marcus Tullius Cicero | [Letters] | |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Marcus Tullius Cicero | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Conyers Middleton | History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Colley Cibber | The Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him ... | Samuel Richardson | Jonathan Swift | [letters and poetical scraps] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ... | Samuel Richardson | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ... | Samuel Richardson | Charlotte Lennox | The Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ... | | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which h... | Martin | n/a | Old and New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful an... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Tom Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Bishop Watson | Apology for the bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my moth... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | William Cobbett | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [French pocket dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Telemaque | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French ... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...' | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Moniteur | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answeri... | | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D of Prospect Villa | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a... | Mrs Smith | Dr D of Prospect Villa | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'Sometimes I played dices with m... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'By the middle of March 1831, I ... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D | [manuscript of his book] | Manuscript: manuscript of book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and le... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 9 May 1873: "Some time since I began to read Tasso with Miss Bartlett and though h... | Henry James and Miss Bartlett | Torquato Tasso | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 11 May 1873 (letter begun 9 May): "I have seen some newspaper mention of [Aimee Ol... | Henry James | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a "scrap from the Advertiser" (en... | Henry James | | comments on Henry James's April 1873 North American Review article on Theophile Gautier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance (fifth part) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I've just seen Aldrich's Marjory Daw in the Revue looking as natur... | Henry James | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Marjory Daw | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I ... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s... | Henry James | Henry James | Eugene Pickering | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the morni... | Henry James | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 May 1874: "Of Aldrich's tale, I'm sorry to say I've lost the thread, through mi... | Henry James | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | story | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: "I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph ... | Henry James | | wedding announcement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemb... | Fanny Kemble | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth yo... | Henry James | unknown | "dullish books" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | review of Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Qu... | Henry James | Alfred Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Loui... | John Drummond Erskine | Jean de La Bruyere | Les caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. Coste | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes ... | | Robert Thomas | The modern practice of physic, exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostic, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating, the diseases of all climates | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days... | John Drummond Erskine | John Sinclair | Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... | | [unknown] | [prayer book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even t... | William Tinsley | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often ask... | Sarah Tinsley | | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and... | villagers of South Mimms | [n/a] | The Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I ... | William Tinsley | [unknown] | [various titles] | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live ... | Thomas Burt | Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live ... | Thomas Burt | Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which I should not omit to mention, since it made a great sensation when it ap... | Peter Burt | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read "The White Slave" and the autobiograph... | Thomas Burt | Richard Hildreth | The white slave, or memoirs of a fugitive | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to... | Thomas Carlyle | Horace Benedict Saussure | Voyage dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Baptiste Biot | Traite de Physique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.' | Harriet Martineau | John Gay | Gay's Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geo... | Harriet Martineau | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so mu... | Harriet Martineau | | Old and New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the doo... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading a sweet book, "The Farthing Spinster", by Catherine Dodd. Some of the passages about gardens are beauti... | Hilary Spalding | Catherine Dodd | Farthing Spinster, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading a lovely book "And so to Bath" by Cecil Roberts. I must try to get it at home next hols.' | Hilary Spalding | Cecil Roberts | And So to Bath | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another lovely book called "The Story of San Michele".' | Hilary Spalding | Axel Munthe | Story of San Michele, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A very exciting book called "The Secret Battle" by APH. It is about the last war, and is rather pathetic in parts. ... | Hilary Spalding | A.P. Herbert | Secret Battle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading "Diary of a Di... | Hilary Spalding | Kenneth Bradley | Diary of a District Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "Peter Abelard" ...[it's] a wonderful book and not at all hard to read. I have nearly finished it now. ... | Hilary Spalding | Helen Waddell | Peter Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I tried to finish "The Three Saplings" [sic] by Mazo de la Roche but couldn't'. | Hilary Spalding | Mazo de la Roche | Two Saplings, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read a lot of "Farewell Victoria"'. | Hilary Spalding | T.H. White | Farewell Victoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading a very thick fiction book, although we have to give them in by Monday. Dangerous!... We had a super day... | Hilary Spalding | Francis Brett Young | My Brother Jonathon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read and read "Fame is the Spur" which is gorgeous.' | Hilary Spalding | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spent the morning in the Public Library and am reading some lovely books. I read all afternoon and tried to think ... | Hilary Spalding | | [books on party games] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read most of day. I am reading "Dandelion Days", and love it. I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.' | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Dandelion Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have almost finished "The Surgeon's Log". The first fiction book of this term!' | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Surgeon's Log, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", as I always do when in the sick room.' | Hilary Spalding | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Old Man's Birthday". | Hilary Spalding | Richmal Crompton | Old Man's Birthday, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Ego 5", which is super.' | Hilary Spalding | James Agate | Ego 5 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until... | Hilary Spalding | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until... | Hilary Spalding | Ernest Seton Thompson | Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.' | Hilary Spalding | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "Jane Eyre" and adore it.' | Hilary Spalding | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "The Man in Grey" which is simply glorious. I must ry and get it.' | Hilary Spalding | Eleanor Smith | Man in Grey, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I th... | Hilary Spalding | Mary Webb | House in Dormer Forest, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "The house in Dormer Forest" by Mary Webb; it has such a lovely cover that I must try and get it, but I th... | Hilary Spalding | Mary Webb | Precious Bane | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | Richard Llewellyn | How Green Was My Valley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | John Buchan | Witch Wood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Lotos Eaters, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1943 My Favourite:
Books: "How Green Was my Valley", "Witch in the Wood".
Authors: T.H.White, Hugh Walpole
Poems: ... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Ian Fraser | Whereas I was Blind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Hammond Innes | Attack Alarm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | John Rode | Murders in Praed Street, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Eleanor Smith | Lover's Meeting | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Donald Ross | MD - Doctor of Murder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R.A.J. Walling | Murder at the Keyhole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Dora Olive Thompson | That Girl Ginger | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Anthony Armstrong | Ten Minute Alibi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan the Untamed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Ian Hay | Pip | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Nevil Shute | Pied Piper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Ngaio Marsh | Man Lay Dead, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | James Hilton | Random Harvest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Eve Curie | Madame Curie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Rudyard Kipling | Stalky and Co | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Rafael Sabatini | Bellarion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nicholls | Down the Garden Path | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Noel Streatfeild | House in Cornwall, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | "Bartimeus" | Tall Ship, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | H.A. Vachell | Quinneys | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Edward Woodward | House of Terror | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next le... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | 'Considerations on the French Revolution' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have ofte... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Jameson | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci... | Thomas Carlyle | Horace Benedict Saussure | Voyages dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grie... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I heard the greatest part of the Gamester read by Mr Garrick, before it was brought upon the stage. On the whole, I m... | David Garrick | Edward Moore | The Gamester | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life,... | Samuel Richardson | Thomas Edwards | [letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of i... | Samuel Richardson | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | 'Determinta' | Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder... | Samuel Johnson | Lady Bradshaigh | 'Determinta' | Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more ... | Samuel Richardson | William Shakespeare | [illustrated, edited version] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet... | Hester Mulso | Lady Bradshaigh | [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet... | Mrs Donellan | Lady Bradshaigh | [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read ... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them ... | Lady Bradshaigh | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them... | Lady Bradshaigh | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intitled, "A Journey thro' Life." My wife and girls, and Miss C... | Richardson's wife and daughters | Sarah Scott (attrib) | A Journey Thro' Every Stage of Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intituled, A Journey thro' Life. My wife and girls, and Miss Co... | Miss Collier | Sarah Scott (attrib) | A Journey Thro' Every Stage of Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | | The History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | Ninon de Lenclos | Letters of Ninon de Lenclos to the Marquis of Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published... | Dr (Edward?) Young | David Hartley | Observations on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose fr... | Samuel Richardson | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the omniscence of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the power of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Penguin Parade 4 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy L Sayers | The Man Born to be King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Casterton Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Harrison Ainsworth | Old Saint Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | John Steinbeck | The Moon is Down | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | W.C. Sellar | 1066 and All That | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | A.E.W. Mason | Ensign Knightley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Paul de Kruif | Men Against Death | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | Mesmer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | James Agate | First Nights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Hound of the Baskervilles, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | T.S. Eliot | Little Gidding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | P.C. Wren | Beau Geste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | P.C. Wren | Beau Sabreur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | James Agate | Amazing Theatre, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Pleasure of your Company, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | F Anstey | Humour and Fantasy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Sean O'Casey | Juno and the Paycock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Beautiful Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Salar the Salmon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Dream of Fair Women, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Star-born, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Unknown | Teach yourself to Think | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Cathedral, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Harry S. Keller | Mysterious Mr I, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Arthur Ransome | Picts and the Martyrs, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | H.G. Wells | Three Short Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | Thatched Roof, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | George Sava | Healing Knife, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Nine Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Alexander Woolcot | While Rome Burns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | Star Spangled Manner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Anna Sligh Turnbull | Day Must Dawn, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Harrison Ainsworth | Tower of London, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Sarah Hodgson Burnett | Little Princess, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Ian Hay | Lighter Side of School Life, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Kay Ambrose | Ballet Lover's Notebook | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | J.M. Barrie | Plays of J.M. Barrie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Noel Coward | I'll Leave it to You | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Henry the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Palgrave | Longer Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | S.P.B. Mais | Writing of English, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | E.F. Benson | Miss Mapp | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Franz Werfel | Song of Bernadette, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Laurence Housman | Happy and Glorious | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Rudyard Kipling | Sixty Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R Brimley Johnson | Birth of Romance, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R Brimley Johnson | Comedy of Life, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R Brimley Johnson | Some Little Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Kenneth Grahame | Dream Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Margaret Irwin | Royal Flush | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which is glorious, but very sad. I cried buckets and buckets!" | Hilary Spalding | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Whole afternoon and evening of prep in which I (most regrettably) finished "Roper's Row".' | Hilary Spalding | Warwick Deeping | Roper's Row | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "Tom's Brown's Schooldays", which is awfully nice.' | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Two Survived", the most amazing book, which is most exciting.' | Hilary Spalding | Guy Pierce Jones | Two Survived | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse", which is really glorious.' | Hilary Spalding | Sister Black | King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading, at long last, "Early Stages" by John Gielgud.' | Hilary Spalding | John Gielgud | Early Stages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read lovely book: "Cold Comfort Farm"'. | Hilary Spalding | Stella Gibbons | Cold Comfort Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shopped and tried to find some books. Succeeded at last in getting "The Great Ship", the play by Linklater that JG w... | Hilary Spalding | Eric Linklater | Great Ship, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged) which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.' | Hilary Spalding | Alexandre Dumas | Count of Monte Cristo, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Didn't do much work as was reading "The Killer and the Slain", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.' | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Killer and the Slain, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.'
NB "Song... | Hilary Spalding | Franz Werfel | Song of Bernadette | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Worked rather intermittantly [sic] as was dying to read the end of "King's Solomon's Mines" [sic]. However, when thi... | Hilary Spalding | H Rider Haggard | King Solomon's Mines | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Have His Carcase". Will be the last fiction I'll read at weekends till after exams, worse luck. Am beginning ... | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy L Sayers | Have His Carcase | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Revised all day and was really sick of it. Got very stale & ended up by reading "Alice in Wonderland"! Much more ref... | Hilary Spalding | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read all afternoon and evening, to parent's [sic] disgust but my delight. Pub. Lib. books.' | Hilary Spalding | | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provinci... | Hilary Spalding | Enid Bagnold | Lottie Dundass | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provinci... | Hilary Spalding | E.M. Delafield | Provincial Lady in America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent glorious morning doing book [i.e. sorting bookcase] & enjoying myself thoroughly. Bought "Balletomania" at lon... | Hilary Spalding | Helen Waddell | Peter Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fort... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Lamb | Some Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fort... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Lamb | The Best of Lamb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I... | Hilary Spalding | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I finished "Wuthering Heights" and began "Villette". I must try and get a set of the Bronte books as soon as I... | Hilary Spalding | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.' | Hilary Spalding | William Hazlitt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Villette", and went fast asleep on couch.' | Hilary Spalding | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read Shaw, which is wonderful, but I'm sure I don't understand half of it.' | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Complete Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Axel Munthe | Story of San Michele, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Beverley Nichols | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Walter de la Mare | Arabia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | The Specialist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Rachel Field | All This and Heaven Too | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Lord Lytton | Antony: A Record of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Eleanor Smith | Life's a Circus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | A.J. Cronin | Keys of the Kingdom, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Paul Gallico | Snow Goose, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Daphne Du Maurier | Gerald | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Cross Creek | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Caryl Brahms | Footnotes to the Ballet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Daphne Du Maurier | Hungry Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Rafael Sabatini | Captain Blood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Rafael Sabatini | Scaramouche | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Heartbreak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Rafael Sabatini | Fortune's Fool | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Talbot Baines Reed | Fifth Form at St Dominic's | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Rafael Sabatini | Lost King, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | E.M. Delafield | Diary of a Provincial Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Daphne Du Maurier | Frenchman's Creek | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Sava | Surgeon's Destiny, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Norman Collins | Anna | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Georgette Heyer | Black Moth, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Walter de la Mare | Peacock Pie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | A.J. Cronin | Citadel, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | J.B. Priestley | Good Companions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | C.O. Skinner | Our Hearts were Young and Gay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Sava | Healing Knife, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | First Year Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | A.J. Cronin | Stars Look Down | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Thornton Wilder | Bridge of San Luis Rey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Rogue Herries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Caesar and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Stella Gibbons | Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Dark Lady of the Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Velvet Deer, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | J Harpole | Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Dickens | Christmas Carol, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | A Seyler | Craft of Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | A.P. Herbert | She Shanties | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Actor, Soldier, Poet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Alice Duer Miller | White Cliffs, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | H.V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | M.M. Were | Poems of Contemporary Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Wilfred Massey | Crime at the Club | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | J.M. Barrie | Quality Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | You Never Can Tell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Doctor's Dilemma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pi... | Thomas Burt | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | Aeropagitica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Cowper | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | British Controversionalist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | [n/a | Popular Educator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | Educational Course | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B... | Thomas Burt | | Historical educator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Samuel Bailey | Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Samuel Bailey | Alexander van Humboldt | Cosmos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of B... | Thomas Burt | Phillip James Bailey | Festus: A poem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Measure for measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | The Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan... | Thomas Burt | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | Lucy Gray | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | We are seven | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Daffodils | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From b... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | Newcastle Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar ... | Thomas Turner | John Nicholl | The execrable practice of buying and selling livings commonly called Simony: in a sermon | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar ... | Thomas Turner | James Walder | The ax laid to the root; or, a preservative against the erroneous doctrines of the Methodists; candidly offered to the consideration of all Christians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even, read some "Universal Magazines".' | Thomas Turner | | Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon and even read part of Burnet's "History of the Reformation" which I esteem a very impartial history,... | Thomas Turner | Gilbert Burnet | The history of the reformation of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of the "London Magazine" for July, in which I find a great many excellent pieces, more than I e... | Thomas Turner | | The London magazine; or, gentleman's monthly intelligencer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being ... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Her [Louise-Florence d'Epinay's] Memoirs I read years ago ..." | Henry James | Louise-Florence d'Epinay | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] vol... | Henry James | Countess Claire-Elisabeth de Remusat | Correspondence (vols 6 and 7) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as on... | Henry James | Anthony Trollope | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been readi... | Henry James | Ivan Turgenev | Senilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho. | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | Sapho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high apprec... | Henry James | Francis Parkman | Montcalm and Wolfe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Ca... | Henry James | James Anthony Froude | Life of Carlyle (concluding instalments) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it suc... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Euphorion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..." | Henry James | Grace Norton | [unidentified articles] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's i... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..." | Henry James | Mrs Humphry Ward | Miss Bretherton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... ... | Henry James | Henry James Sr and William James | The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the le... | Henry James | E. L. Godkin | review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Miss Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Miss Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrou... | Henry James | Emile Zola | Germinal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and deli... | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: "I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..." | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an... | Henry James | H. Rider Haggard | King Solomon's Mines | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an... | Henry James | H. Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial ... | Henry James | Thomas Carlyle | The Early Letters of Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Minister's Charge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen... | Henry James | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 't... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 23 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges. | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Mensonges | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other ... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, jus... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Life of Congreve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballan... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | [items in Dodsley's Miscellanies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | [Life of Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro'... | Samuel Richardson | David Hartley | [passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro'... | Lady Bradshaigh | David Hartley | Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The princi... | Lady Bradshaigh | John Hawkesworth | The Adventurer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The princi... | Samuel Richardson | John Hawkesworth | [items in Cave's Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, w... | Samuel Richardson | various authors | correspondence and other papers | Manuscript: Letter, letters and papers |
| 1700-1799 | 'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less... | Samuel Richardson | Edward Young | The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend on The Life in Vogue | Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS |
| 1700-1799 | 'I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not ap... | Samuel Richardson | Joseph Warton | An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app... | Samuel Richardson | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app... | Samuel Richardson | Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters and Reflections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them... | Samuel Richardson | Sarah Fielding | Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot b... | Samuel Richardson | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rudolph Lehmann | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rudolph Lehmann | | ['great Victorians' - presumably novelists] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Hans Andersen | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Edith Nesbit | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Comtesse de Segur | Les Petites Filles Mod?les | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | | [adult novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Hardy | [poem in the London Mercury] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"... | Rosamond Lehmann | Rupert Brooke | [poem(s) in the London Mercury] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | Aldous Huxley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | William Alexander Gerhardi(e) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Leslie Runcimann | William Alexander Gerhardi(e) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Leslie Runcimann | Aldous Huxley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Leslie Runcimann | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century"... | Rosamond Lehmann | | [nineteenth century fiction by women] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of... | Rosamond Lehmann | May Sinclair | Life and Death of Harriet Frean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Through her old friendship with Stephen Tennant, Rosamond became devoted to his lover, Siegfried Sassoon, whose work ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Siegfried Sassoon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Stearns Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Roy Fuller | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Wystan Hugh Auden | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Cecil Day Lewis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | William Faulkner | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Ford Madox Ford | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Ivy Compton Burnett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Sylvia Townsend Warner | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Elizabeth Bowen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Jean Rhys | Voyage in the Dark | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, u... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Four Quartets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar ... | John Drummond Erskine | William Jones | Grammar of the Persian Language, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Ra... | John Drummond Erskine | Francois Bernier | History of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and pu... | | Patrick Gordon | Famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince, Robert sirnamed, the Bruce, King of Scotland, ... A history both pleasant and profitable, set forth and done in heroic verse, by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | John Stuart Mill | Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traffic and war | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t... | Thomas Burt | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chr... | Arnold Bennett | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the adv... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the re... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & ... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . ... | Arnold Bennett | Agnes Farley | Ashdod | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.'
| Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Secret Agent, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is ... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Bomb, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetra... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe ... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.'... | Arnold Bennett | W.L. George | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.'
| J.B. Pinker | Arnold Bennett | preface to The Old Wives' Tale | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me th... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Regent, The | Manuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?) |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received your fourth and last article for Austin Harrison, and I have read it with a great deal of enjoyment.'... | J.B. Pinker | Arnold Bennett | Artist and the Public, The | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read ... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | Price of Love, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I asked James if he had read Shaw?s Manifesto. He said "I have it here and have made several attempts, but his horri... | Henry James | G. B. Shaw | Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the ... | Arnold Bennett | Compton McKenzie | Sinister Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights... | Arnold Bennett | | legal contract | Print: draft legal contract |
| 1900-1945 |
The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish a... | Arnold Bennett | | legal contract | Print: draft legal contract |
| 1900-1945 | '[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had aske... | Hugh Walpole | Arnold Bennett | 'New Age' articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'
| Arnold Bennett | James Douglas | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition i... | Thomas Burt | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma... | Thomas Burt | Todd | Student's Manual | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma... | Thomas Burt | Channing | [volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fenelon] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodic... | Thomas Burt | [n/a] | London Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was fini... | Thomas Catling | [n/a] | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t... | Thomas Catling | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | Charles Dickens | [works] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | [n/a] | Cassell's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | [n/a] | London Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | ?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my c... | Samuel Bamford | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man... | Daniel Bamford | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the R... | Samuel Bamford | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's Letters on Education, Louis Sebastie... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Madame de Genlis | Letters on Education | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebast... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Louis Sebastien Mercier | Mon Bonnet de Nuit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebast... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Baroness de Montoliere | Caroline de Litchfield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided ... | Mary Wollstonecraft | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided ... | Mary Wollstonecraft | John Hewlett | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided ... | Mary Wollstonecraft | William Paley | Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Mary Wollstonecraft] 'told Everina that she had been reading Hugh Blair's "Letters on Rhetoric" and found them "an in... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Hugh Blair | Letters on Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her;... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stori... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Hauntings | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts include... | Mary Wollstonecraft | [various] | [various works] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am sorry for poor Hewlett - Betty Delane read his sermons with great pleasure...' | Betty Delane | John Hewlett | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him ... | Frank Swinnerton | Arnold Bennett | How to Become an Author | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a ... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro." | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real the... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Lost Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limi... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Richard Price | Sermons on the Christian Doctrine, as Received by the Different Denominations of Christians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limi... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Richard Price | Four Dissertations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel ... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Coeur de Femme | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me a... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Jacques Necker | De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.' | Mary Wollstonecraft | [probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann | [probably] Moralisches Elementarbuch | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your p... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | The South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with bene... | Mary Wollstonecraft | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Delighted with some of her husband's letters, [Mrs Barlow] has exultingly shewn them to me; and, though I took care n... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mr Barlow | [letters to his wife] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'
| Arnold Bennett | unknown | Old Wives' Tale, The | Manuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshnes... | Henry James | William James | Principles of Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinati... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary Hays | Cursory Remarks | Manuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 immedi... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Jane West | A Gossip's Story | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Henrik Ibsen | Rosmersholm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. ... | Mrs Robinson | Mary Hays | Memoirs of Emma Courtney | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'
| Algernon Methuen Marshall | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it a... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Anne Radcliffe | Italian, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptur... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Addington | [Letters] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.' | George Eliot [pseud] | 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with grea... | George Eliot (pseud) | August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben | [a bacchanalian poem] | Manuscript: Unknown, own poem |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with grea... | George Eliot (pseud) | [a french artist] | [his own poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.' | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | 'Kestner letters' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Letters of People in Love". Quite good.' | Hilary Spalding | Donagh McDonagh | Letters of People in Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They ar... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Henry Brocken" all evening, as had finished prep. It's enchanting.' | Hilary Spalding | Walter de la Mare | Henry Brocken | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent evening dancing, and reading Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee".' | Hilary Spalding | Maurice Maeterlinck | Life of the Bee, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsor... | Hilary Spalding | Arthur Quiller Couch | Art of Writing, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsor... | Hilary Spalding | C.S. Lewis | Screwtape Letters, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's s... | Hilary Spalding | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished all my prep so indulged in a little fiction reading - "The Headmistress" - very light & witty.' | Hilary Spalding | Angela Thirkell | Headmistress, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".' | Hilary Spalding | Angela Thirkell | Headmistress, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".' | Hilary Spalding | unknown | People's Government, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot,... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | ["silly school stories"] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot,... | Hilary Spalding | Florence Converse | House of Prayer, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Franz Liszt | [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Franz Liszt | [article on Meyerbeer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a... | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Wahlverwandtschaften | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read Bradley on "Hamlet" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over "Antony and Cleo", if that is p... | Hilary Spalding | A.C. Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent half an hour reading Flecker - he's wonderful'. | Hilary Spalding | James Elroy Flecker | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Denis Diderot | Le Nevue de Rameau | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I felt incapable of doing any Zoo [zoology preparation for mid-school exams] so read Flecker's poetry all night! Felt... | Hilary Spalding | James Elroy Flecker | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] | Egmont | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Great Hoggarty Diamond | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Hangman's Holiday" with great enjoyment.' | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy Sayers | Hangman's Holiday | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first r... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gross Cophta | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Strong Poison" all day and enjoyed it thoroughly.' | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy Sayers | Strong Poison | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstra... | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Moore | Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.' | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Armstrong | Crowthers of Bankdam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz | [if this Gotz, then poetry] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Der Burgergeneral | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read quite a lot of the "Antiquary" and felt quite virtuous.' | Hilary Spalding | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's "Ghosts", which is a masterpiece, I think.' | Hilary Spalding | Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I stayed up late reading "The Gay Galliard" by Margaret Irwin, which is a lovely book.' | Hilary Spalding | Margaret Irwin | Gay Galliard, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can unde... | Hilary Spalding | Ovid | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the "Antiquary" at last. It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.' | Hilary Spalding | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'. | Hilary Spalding | Geoffrey Chaucer | Knight's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." | Hilary Spalding | Geoffrey Chaucer | Knight's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." | Hilary Spalding | Robert Browning | Luria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I spent ages trying to find a poem for Elocution [Grade 6 exam] in my special choice part. At last I chose "Th... | Hilary Spalding | James Elroy Flecker | Old Ships, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.' | Hilary Spalding | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Summer Evening | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there ... | Hilary Spalding | Edwyn Robert Bevan | Jerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedictus de Spinoza | Ethics | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there ... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'. | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'. | Hilary Spalding | A.C. Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Carl Eduard Vehse | Der Hof zu Weimar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I revised "Pericles" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it. It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite f... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did a lot of "The Rivals", which I don't like a bit. It has momentary flashes of wit, but otherwise it's awful.' | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Me... | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | "Donna Clara" | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read Flecker most of evening and am more and more convinced that his poetry is wonderful'. | Hilary Spalding | James Elroy Flecker | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As it was very hot I decided to pretend I had finished HSC [Higher School Certificate], and read Joad's book on Post ... | Hilary Spalding | C.E.M. Joad | Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Nine Tailors" all pm although I'd promised myself I'd work at night. But it was a lovely evening and I lay i... | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy Sayers | Nine Tailors, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Nine Tailors" all evening.' | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy Sayers | Nine Tailors, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Plac... | Hilary Spalding | Naomi Michison | Conquered, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Plac... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | People and Places | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | poems | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Laocoon'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | | newspapers | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear a... | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have begun "Peter Abelard" again. I do love it, & can never leave it once I've begun.' | Hilary Spalding | Helen Waddell | Peter Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Briefe Uber Spinoza | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt "Jabberwocky" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, b... | Hilary Spalding | Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Nathan der Weise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "The Sun is My Undoing" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'. | Hilary Spalding | Marguerite Steen | Sun is my Undoing, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent a very sleepy afternoon nodding over "Midas"'. | Hilary Spalding | John Lyly | Midas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Minna von Barnhelm | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Italianische Reise.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Fanny Lewald | Wandlungen | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Italianische Reise | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' | Hilary Spalding | A.G. Macdonell | England their England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.' | Hilary Spalding | Christopher Marlowe | Jew of Malta, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johannes Scherr | Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte' | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading "By Greta Bridge" instead of the Milton I ought to be reading! But it is lovely, & very cleverly written &... | Hilary Spalding | Louis Goodrich | Jew of Malta, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England th... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England th... | Hilary Spalding | A.G. Macdonell | England their England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Dog Beneath the Skin", a most peculiar play.' | Hilary Spalding | W.H. Auden | Dog Beneath the Skin, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ... | Hilary Spalding | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, whi... | Henry James | Marcelin Marbot | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of s... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Across the Plains | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, ... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | La Terre promise | Manuscript: Sheet, proofs |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Island Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: "The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] c... | Henry James | James Russell Lowell | Letters of James Russell Lowell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fe... | Henry James | | cutting from Venetian newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discuss... | Henry James | Alice James | The Diary of Alice James | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed... | Henry James | George Meredith | Lord Ormont and His Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's a... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | "paper on Pater" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- intere... | Henry James | Horatio Brown | Memoir of John Addington Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | Petite Paroisse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | Sapho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | L'Immortel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I find the political situation here very interesting an... | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..." | Henry James | | Debats | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..." | Henry James | | Temps | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charmi... | Henry James | anon | Review of Henry James, Roderick Hudson | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it... | Henry James | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mm... | Mme. Blaze de Bury | Henry James | stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entert... | Henry James | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing a... | Henry James | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: "I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum C... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to sto... | Henry Sidgwick | Henry James | Roderick Hudson | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of th... | Henry James | | magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: " ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over ... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the ... | Archibald Grove | Henry James | The American | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be... | Sir Charles Dilke | Henry James | "French essays" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : "He read out 'Locksley ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling... | Henry James | Jacob Burkhardt | The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson'... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [a farce] | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Euripides | Iphigenia | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th... | | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From ... | | Priscilla Wakefield | Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. | George Eliot [pseud] | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Torquato Tasso | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Geg... | [Professor] Gruppe | Homer | [hymn to Aphrodite] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Silvio Pellico | Prisons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"... | Sir Walter Raleigh | [unknown] | [French novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | Die Gotter im Exil | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [discourse on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [on Spinoza] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [draft of Life of Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | De l'Allemagne | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He... | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | Der Salon | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud ... | George Henry Lewes | Thomas [?] Knight | [studies of Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Eliot [pseud] | Adolf Stahr | Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy' | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich Heine | [on German philosophy] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [Dr] Fischer | [a pamphlet] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 p... | John Drummond Erskine | John Wheatley | Remarks on currency and commerce | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We went in the evening to Gruppe's. He read to us parts ofa poem "Ferdusi" still in M.S. which is to be read to the K... | [Prof] Gruppe | [Prof.] Gruppe | [poem in MS] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, book M.S. |
| 1850-1899 | 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hamburgische Briefe | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | West-Ostliche Divan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Adolf Stahr | Ein Jahr in Italien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough... | George Eliot [pseud] | Georg Gottfried Gervinus | [on Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Romische Elegien | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Venetian Epigrams | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Karl Eduard Vehse | probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Reformation | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re... | Sir Walter Raleigh | [unknown] | [dramatists' works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came aw... | George Eliot | [Prof] Gruppe | Ferdusi | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came aw... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Richard III'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | part of the MS of his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin... | Sir Walter Raleigh | [unknown] | [Roman History] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed... | Sir Walter Raleigh | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Emily Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Anne Bronte | [Unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Nathaniel Wraxall | Historical Memoirs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | MS of his Life of Goethe | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'. | [M.] Dessoir | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Sp... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare (and others) | The Passionate Pilgrim | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [various] | The Leader | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Macbeth".' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon | Nibelungen Lied | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Athenaeum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Contemporary Literature | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johannes Scherr | [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur? | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Reineke Fuchs"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Reineke Fuchs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Schrader's German Mythology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Eberhard Schrader | [German Mythology] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight point... | John Drummond Erskine | William Jones | Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Herbert Spencer | The Genesis of Science | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Cumming | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Sydney Smith | [Letters] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | James Boswell | probably Life of Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | William Whewell | History of the Inductive Sciences | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Homer | Odyssey | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Heinrich Heine | Reisebilder | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These ... | John Drummond Erskine | Horace | Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad, book II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, app... | Henry James | | Visitors' books | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back ... | Henry James | | American newspaper telegrams | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article on "Brute and Human Intellect" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says '... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my l... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Lady of the Aroostook | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jule... | Henry James | Jules Valles | Jacques Vingtras | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they sho... | Henry James | Henry James | review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the su... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but y... | Henry James | unknown | [extracted texts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered,... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Bro... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | poems | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..." | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two ... | Henry James | Charles Eliot Norton | Historical Studies of Church Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think ... | Henry James | Grant Allen | article (?in response to work by William James) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the ... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | Dr. Breen's Practice | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "I see in the last Academy that you have never seen the magazin... | Henry James | | The Academy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [ap... | Henry James | | The Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late fo... | Henry James | William James | letter to Henry James Sr | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in wh... | Henry James | G. W. Smalley | article on American novels | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in la... | Henry James | George Pellew | dissertation on Jane Austen's novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecim... | David Marshall | Andrew Birnie of Saline | A compend or abreviat of the most important ordinary securities of, and concerning. [sic] rights personal and real, redeemable and irredeemable; of common use in Scotland. Containing above an hundred different securities. Collected from the stiles of seve | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor... | Thomas Carlyle | Baron Jacob Berzelius | Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Histories of Jack the Giant Killer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Saint George and the Dragon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Tom Hickathrift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Jack and the Bean Stalk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | History of the Seven Champions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Fair Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | History of Friar Bacon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Account of the Lancashire witches | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | The witches of the woodlands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Robin Hood's Songs | Print: Book, Broadsheet |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou... | Samuel Bamford | anon | The Ballad of Chevy Chase | Print: Book, Broadsheet |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had don... | Samuel Bamford | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fi... | Samuel Bamford | John Wesley | Journals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | [n/a] | The Armenian Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | An account of the Inquisition in Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | The Drummer of Tedworth | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | Some account of the disturbances at Glenluce | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | [unknown] | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | [miscellaneous poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet... | Samuel Bamford | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | [miscellaneous works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printe... | Thomas Carlyle | Baron Jacob Berzelius | Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities | Print: Proof-sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great f... | Thomas Carlyle | August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. How... | Thomas Carlyle | | Book of Job | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect;... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean le Rond D'Alembert | Unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | Charles Rollin | Ancient history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | David Hume | Decline and fall of the Roman empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | Anachaises | Travels in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | James Macpherson | Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | Lindley Murray | Murray's Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", an... | Samuel Bamford | William Cobbett | Cobbett's Weekly Register | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listen... | Samuel Bamford | William Cobbett | Weekly Register | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listen... | Samuel Bamford | William Hone | [political pamphlets] | |
| 1800-1849 | ?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?. | Samuel Bamford's wife and child | [n/a] | The Testament | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex.... | Francis Wemyss | Mostyn John Armstrong | Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time repl... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time re... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | Charles Knight | Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of... | William Edwin Adams | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Eliot Warburton | Crescent and the Cross | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their o... | William Edwin Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ... | William Edwin Adams | John Cobbett | Cobbett's Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ... | William Edwin Adams | John Cassell | Popular Educator | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with ... | William Edwin Adams | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] m... | | [n/a] | Northern Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, wher... | James Watson | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, wher... | James Watson | Thomas Jonathan Wooler | Black Dwarf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where sh... | James Watson | Richard Carlile | Republican | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where sh... | Mrs Watson | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It w... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Morning Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the m... | William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' | William Thackeray | Virginians | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the m... | William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' | Charles Dickens | Little Dorritt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me wit... | Joseph Mayett | anon | Reading made easy in a variety of useful lessons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor... | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor... | Joseph Mayett | Dr Watts | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read h... | Joseph Mayett | [unknown] | [religious books] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progre... | Joseph Mayett | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?on the Thursday evening following I went to my fathers to the meeting with an intention to stay out all night with a ... | Joseph Mayett | John Rippon | A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors Including a Great Number of Originals: Intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I la... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a ... | Joseph Mayett | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. ... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were... | Thomas Carter | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were... | Thomas Carter | James Hervey | Meditations among the tombs; in a letter to a lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover ... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following... | Thomas Carter | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Mor... | Thomas Carter | Isaac Watts | Divine and Moral Songs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Among these books was a brief abstract of that amusing story "Robinson Crusoe", which I read with much eagerness and ... | Thomas Carter | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly s... | Thomas Carter | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Hymns in Prose for Children | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious ... | Thomas Carter | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Child... | Thomas Carter | Anne Taylor | Original Poems for Infant Minds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | The Assembly's Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were c... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Arminian Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were c... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical ex... | Thomas Carter | Daniel Fenning | The Universal Spelling Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | William Enfield | The Speaker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall i... | Thomas Carter | Sir Richard Phillips | Geography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall i... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wante... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's ... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Lloyd's Evening Post | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Rel... | Thomas Carter | David Simpson | A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were ... | Thomas Carter | Rev. Thomas Scott | [various essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Sand | Lucrezia Floriani | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'. | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Gilbert White | The Natural History of Selborne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'. | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Theodor (?) Schwann | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'. | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | S.T. Coleridge | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative ... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Franz Joseph Gall | Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative ... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | William Benjamin Carpenter | Principles of General and Comparative Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative ... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading Longfellow's Hiawatha'. | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | P. von Bohlen | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Emanuel Swedenborg | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Meredith | The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Kingsley | The Greek Heroes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Karl Friedrich August Kahnis | [history of German Protestantism - title unclear] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Heinrich (?) Riehl | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Masson | [essay on the Life of Chatterton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud] | David Masson | 'The Three Devils' | Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856 |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Richard Chenevix Trench | An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Beaumarchais | M?moires contre Goezman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]|: 7pp (6 ink, 1 pencil) of ms notes of journeys (all in south of England or Wales) in the blank pages fol... | | John Cary | Cary's New itinerary: or an accurate delineation of the great roads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | various | [articles in the National] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | W.H. Harvey | The Sea-side Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | The Lover's Seat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have now taken up Quatrefages again.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau | [zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Honore de Balzac | The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."' | George Eliot [pseud] | Sophocles | Ajax | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace' | George Eliot [pseud] | Harriet Martineau | History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infid... | George Eliot (pseud) | Sara Hennell | Christianity and Infidelity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we spent the evening pleasantly, in spite of ailing bodies, reading Mrs Gaskell's pretty "Cranford".' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading, in the evening, "Poor Peter".' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford - 'Poor Peter' section | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "The Scarlet Letter".' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Agnes Catlow | Popular Field Botany | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Thomas Carlyle | Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot (pseud) | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'. | George Eliot (pseud) | John William Draper | Human Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read "Emma" in the evening.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".' | George Eliot (pseud) | George Eliot (pseud) | Janet's Repentance | Manuscript: MS of own work |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"... | Thomas Carter | n/a | Courier | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Aeschlyus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Thomas Buckle | History of Civilization in England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Harriet Martineau | The history of the British Empire in India | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays on Lord Clive And Warren Hastings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Harriet Martineau | The history of England during the thirty years' peace : 1816-1846 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Wat... | Thomas Carter | Isaac Watts | Horae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | The Wreath | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inne... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from ... | John Drummond Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also... | Magdalene Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | [volumes by the British Essayists] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Pris... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Wilkie Collins | Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Pris... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Charles Dickens | Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Die Familie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Land Und Volk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr... | George Eliot (pseud) | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe... | George Eliot (pseud) | George Eliot (pseud.) | Adam Bede | Manuscript: MS of own novel |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a... | Thomas Carter | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe... | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus | Choephorae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Pierre Jean de Beranger | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | anon. | [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ... | George Eliot (pseud) | Charles Dickens | The Haunted Man | Print: Unknown, could have been book or serial |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus | Eumenides | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ... | Thomas Carter | James Cook | [narratives of voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ... | Thomas Carter | Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse | [narratives of voyages] | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist... | | Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de Pompadour | Suite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de Pompadour d'apres les pierre gravees de Guay graveur du Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ... | Thomas Carter | Louis Antoine de Bougainville | [narratives of voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ... | Thomas Carter | James Bruce | [narratives of travels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: a page of ms notes on the first binding page gives nautical instructions 'The course by the Compass From... | William Ferguson | Anon | General treatise of naval trade and commerce, as founded on the laws and statutes of the realm: in which those relating to His Majesty's customs, merchants, matters of ships &c. are particularly considered and treated with due care ? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ... | Thomas Carter | Fran?ois Le Vaillant | [narratives of travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ... | Thomas Carter | Isaac Weld | [narratives of travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tr... | Thomas Carter | Christoph Christian Sturm | Reflections on the Works of God and of His Providence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbe... | | Anon | Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipment of a frigate to be employed in sailing between London and Calcutta; touching at the Cape of Good Hope; for the conveyance of passengers only | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentim... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | History of the Thirty Years Peace | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.' | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Prometheus" in the morning'. | George Eliot (pseud) | Aeschlyus [?] | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Horace | The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas Carlyle | Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Scott's Life in the evenings with much enjoyment.' | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | J.G. Lockhart (probably) | Life of Scott | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.' | Erasmus Wilson | unknown | Hunger and Thirst | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Miche... | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti... | Henry James | unknown | review of Barrett Wendell's critical study of Shakespeare | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti... | Henry James | Barrett Wendell | critical study of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yester... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratef... | Henry James | Edward Holton James | two stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which h... | Henry James | Pierre Louys | Aphrodite: moeurs antiques | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at t... | Henry James | Emile Zola | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August]... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | article on death of Edmond de Goncourt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which... | Henry James | Maurice Barres | Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afterno... | Henry James | Edward Fitzgerald | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897:... | Henry James | Arthur Christopher Benson | Diary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on s... | Agnes Halkerston | James Duncan | Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 20 April 1898: 'I scarcely know what the newpapers say [about the Spanish-American war] ... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Antonio de Navarro, 15 June 1898: 'Well, my dear Tony, I have read your ms. [...] It is Hans Andersenes... | Henry James | Antonio de Navarro | MS story | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"... | Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop | n/a | Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"... | Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop | William Cobbett | Weekly Political Register | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"... | Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop | n/a | The Independent Whig | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"... | Thomas Carter | n/a | The Independent Whig | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"... | Thomas Carter | William Cobbett | Weekly Political Register | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - w... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Planta | History of the Helvetic Confederacy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jard... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jard... | Thomas Carlyle | John Bristed | America and her Resources | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meanin... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Lady Sidney Owenson Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond | Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Lady Sidney Morgan | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [Penny Dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | Walter Scott | [from 'The Lady of the Lake'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [extracts in school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [didactic poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [works not reproduced in schoolbooks] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | [Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Freddie's Friend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Little Billie's Button | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Sally's Sacrifice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of C... | George Eliot (pseud) | Flouren | [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel "La Femme... | Henry James | Pierre Louys | La Femme et le Pantin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Ma... | Henry James | Matilda Serao | [unidentified novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and r... | Henry James | E.M. De Vogüé | Jean d'Agreve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you hav... | Henry James | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is... | Henry James | Mrs Everard Cotes | His Honour and a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particula... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Katherine Prescott Wormeley | MS notes to Balzac's Letters | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Katherine Prescott Wormeley | Preface [on Balzac] | Print: proof |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | Un Roman d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | Lettres a l'Etrangere | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Drames de Famille | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which h... | Henry James | George Santayana | Interpretations of Poetry and Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think... | Henry James | Ford Madox Hueffer | Poems for Pictures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Ragged Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Their Silver Wedding Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | 'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story) | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feel... | Henry James | W. Morton Fullerton | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short ta... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Pair of Patient Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous ... | Henry James | Sarah Orne Jewett | The Tory Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I ... | Henry James | Rudyard Kipling | Kim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, s... | Henry James | Graham Balfour | Life of Robert Louis Stevenson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You d... | Henry James | Owen Wister | The Virginian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decisio... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Valley of Decision | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediatel... | Henry James | unknown | article on Zola | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in m... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y... | Henry James | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | The Morgesons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y... | Henry James | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | Two Men | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie... | Henry James | Urbain Mengin | Italie des Romantiques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"]... | Henry James | Howard Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: In proof |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"]... | Henry James | Howard Sturgis | A Sketch from Memory | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | David Ramsay | History of the American Revolution, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | John Smith | Travels in Canada and the United States | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | Edward Parkinson | Travels in North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, t... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | [morning newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's School Days | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) | Auguste Comte | Catechism Of Positive Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ, The (?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.' | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.' | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Francois Huber | New Observations on the Natural History of Bees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interestin... | George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes | Charles Darwin | Origin of Species, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.' | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | anon. | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested... | George Eliot (pseud) | John Bunyan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi... | Thomas Carter | Robert Bloomfield | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.' | George Eliot (pseud) | unknown | [Life of Francois de Sales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi... | Thomas Carter | James Montgomery | Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last... | Henry James | Viscount Garnet Wolseley | The Story of a Soldier's Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to ... | Henry James | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | [book on Greek history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted t... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted t... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Twelve Stories and a Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to yo... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth (second instalment) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago,... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth (final instalment) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munif... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munif... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three wee... | Henry James | William James | [Unidentified recently published writings] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with imm... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Les Deux Soeurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a ... | Henry James | Ralph Gordon Noel King, second Earl of Lovelace | Astarte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of "Astarte", Lovelace's account of his ... | Henry James | various | Byron family papers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea". | Henry James | Joseph Conrad | The Mirror of the Sea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generous... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | The Future in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with... | Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop | [n/a] | The News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, "The Visions of... | Thomas Carter | Francisco de Quevedo | The Visions of Don Quevedo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these m... | Thomas Carter | Torquato Tasso | Jerusalem Delivered | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the request of our landlady, I looked over a volume of Sermons by the eminent Unitarian minister, Dr. Price. I did... | Thomas Carter | Richard Price | [volume of sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | British Press | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | The Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi... | Thomas Carter | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home I acquired increased facilities for reading, by means of a small book-club, consisting of my landlord and a f... | | Charles Rollin | The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portr... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Etudes et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinan... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | article on Ferdinand Brunetiere | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the "Whole Family" -- whi... | Henry James | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward | The Whole Family (chapter) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a chil... | Henry James | various | [unidentified book of fairy stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a lon... | Henry James | Clare Benedict | "Roderick Eaton's Children" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston For... | Johnston Forbes-Robertson | Henry James | "Covering End" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | journal articles on psychology | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] w... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Fruit of the Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52:
'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], ... | Henry James and John Buchan | unknown | Byron family papers | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52:
'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], ... | Henry James and John Buchan | George Gordon, Lord Byron | letters to Lady Melbourne (copies) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and ... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | Maradick at Forty | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book repre... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreci... | Henry James | Josiah Royce | Phi Beta address on the work and influence of William James | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | review of Henry James, The Outcry | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in ... | Henry James | unknown | "the Green Book" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but ... | Henry James | Mrs W. K. Clifford | The Getting Well of Dorothy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]Ameri... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinbu... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | life of Swinburne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let... | Henry James | George Meredith | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 18 October 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'you may not have forgotten that you kind... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for yo... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Portraits and Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two ... | Henry James | Andrew Lang | The Maid of France, being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two ... | Henry James | Andrew Lang | compendium of English literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Nove... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Reef: A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr. Park's... | Thomas Carter | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace... | Thomas Carter | Quintus Horace | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace... | Thomas Carter | Henry Kirk White | Remains | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | European Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Black Dwarf | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | William Cowper | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Liberty, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I... | Thomas Carter | James Beattie | The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the ... | Thomas Carter | William Giles | Guide to Domestic Happiness, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the ... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | Letters on the Marriage State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | James Hervey | Theron and Aspasia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and swee... | Thomas Carter | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and swee... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | [History of the recent wars] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feel... | Thomas Carter | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling and other tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful... | Thomas Carter | Washington Irving | Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful... | Thomas Carter | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of the Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly ... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | New Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Anti-Jacobin Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a... | Thomas Carter | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a... | Thomas Carter | Ebenezer Henderson | Iceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the years 1814 and 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a... | Thomas Carter | William Edward Parry | Journal of a Voyage to discover a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this... | Thomas Carter | Josiah Conder | The Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various Countries of the Globe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini... | Thomas Carter | Gray | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini... | Thomas Carter | J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi | Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D... | Thomas Carter | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Reid | Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D... | Thomas Carter | Dante Alighieri | The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D... | Thomas Carter | William Jowett | Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | James Beattie | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | James Beattie | Essay on truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ... | Thomas Carter | James Arminius | [works on theology and account of his life] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ... | Thomas Carter | James Montgomery | Lectures on poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was... | Thomas Carter | John Wesley | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was n... | Thomas Carter | John Wesley | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | Sharon Turner | Sacred history of the creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | Samuel Drew | Memoirs of Mr Samuel Drew | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | Jung Stilling | Theory of pneumatology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day... | Henry James | Gilbert Cannan | Round the Corner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] an... | Henry James | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, "The Passionate Friends": 'I ... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'. | Henry James | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsle... | Henry James | Aubrey Beardsley | The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Sinister Street (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Carnival | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chro... | Henry James | William Roughead | chronicle of trial of Mary Blandy | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack... | Henry James | Joseph Conrad | Chance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her y... | Lady Mathew | Rhoda Broughton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has appare... | Henry James | Gabriele D'Annunzio | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton M... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Sinister Street (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness ("Sir Isaac Harma... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Sir Isaac Harman's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The... | Henry James | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to sen... | Henry James | Rupert Brooke | sonnets | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I hav... | Henry James | Margot Asquith | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquit... | Margot Asquith | Margot Asquith | Diaries | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume "Boon, etc.", from a loose leaf ... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got my [first] peep into "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Arabian Nights" at the home of an old uncle of mine. But even t... | William Tinsley | anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | [Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be... | Johannes [ie John] Chrystie | John Middleton | The laws and acts of the first Parliament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experienc... | | Molly V Hughes | London Child of the Seventies, A | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experienc... | | Margaret Phillips | Within the City Wall | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. ... | | Molly V Hughes | A London Child of the Seventies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our root... | | Molly V Hughes | London Child of the Seventies, A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to L... | David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan | David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan | Anonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Buchan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp... | Thomas Burt | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan... | Thomas Burt | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | [essays] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It w... | Thomas Carlyle | Abbe Raynal | Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It w... | Thomas Carlyle | Eliza Draper | Inscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. Indies' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucub... | Thomas Carlyle | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing ... | Thomas Carlyle | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Millar on the English government &c-' | Thomas Carlyle | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government, An | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t... | Thomas Catling | [unknown] | The lives of the Stoics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t... | Thomas Catling | [unknown] | [unknown various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by... | Elizabeth Barrett | [author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon | History of a Flirt, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?' | Elizabeth Barrett | Elizabeth Inchbald | Simple Story, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" d... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Howitt | Home, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" d... | Elizabeth Barrett | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Felicia Hemans | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. ... | Mr Kenyon | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that bo... | Elizabeth Barrett | [Miss] Pickering | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer?s Prologue. I had been depressed and ill ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Psalm of Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley, who was much interested in her account of Dr... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Frances Burney | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt an... | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Morte d'Arthur | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Ch... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Horace Walpole | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Ch... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Samuel Pepys | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Humphry Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss T... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie | Madame de Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Old Curiosity Shop, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376... | Magdalene Erskine | Mariano Vasi | Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ? | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men... | Daniel Bamford | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men... | Daniel Bamford | [unknown] | [theological works] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest... | | Mariano Vasi | Itineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou description generale ? de cette ville celebre et de ses environs, antiquaire Romain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | [unknown] | [works on travel and antiquities] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to t... | H. Wansey | Venerable Bede | Ecclesiastical history of the English Nation, from the coming of Julius Caesar, into this island, in the 60th year before the incarnation of Christ, till the year of our Lord 731. Written in Latin by Venerable Bede, and now translated into English fro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleri... | John Drummond Erskine | Andrew Fuller | An apology for the late Christian missions to India | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: Each sermon has a ms date (or dates), possibly indicating use of material: e.g. p. 40 sermon on "Self-i... | | John Caird | Sermons | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points o... | John Drummond Erskine | John Richardson | Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India Company | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | [penny bloods] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's ... | Thomas Carter | Patrick Colquhon | Treatise on the Police of the metropolis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto... | Thomas Carter | Charles Lamb | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Holcroft | The life of Thomas Holcroft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | Life of General Washington | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | William Hutton | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | Jung Stilling | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | Walter Scott | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | Robert Southey | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English,... | John Marsh | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Campbell | The Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Rapin de Thoyras | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Dryden | Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Francois Fenelan | Les Aventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Alain Rene le Sage | Diable Boiteaux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Virgil | Eneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?t... | John Marsh | Richard Graves | The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing... | John Marsh | members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. | Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made easie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to... | John Marsh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon becam... | John Marsh | Thomas Burnett | Theory of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack'... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Carlyle | Letter (date unknown) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'. | John A. Carlyle | Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Samuel Bailey | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Thomas Burt | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Highland Girl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav... | Thomas Burt | William Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma... | Thomas Burt | [unknown] | [theological magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally w... | Thomas Wright | [n/a] | [playbill] | Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill |
| 1850-1899 | 'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally w... | Tommy Davies | [n/a] | [playbill] | Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused ... | John Marsh | Richard Walter | Anson's Voyage round the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & M... | John Marsh | [n/a] | The Lounger | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflec... | John Marsh | [n/a] | Star, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and ... | John Marsh | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | James Ferguson | His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | John Bonnycastle | An introduction to astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls ... | John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White | Charlotte Smith | Celestina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls ... | John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, th... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lo... | | Miss Pilkington | Rosina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | German fable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre reviews | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre review in The Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'. | Fanny Kemble | Grahame | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties.... | Francis William Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene... | Edward Austen Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interes... | Edward Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interes... | George Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - w... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselve... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the ... | Anna Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Craw... | Anne Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'. | [Miss] Clewes | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd preferred it altogether to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility]. - Deligh... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on ... | Edward Trelawny | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rus... | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.' | James Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'. | James Edward Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Alfieri | Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Washington Irving | A Tour on the Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene. - Angry with Edmund for not be... | Benjamin Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Dr Combe | Principles of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.' | [Miss] Burdett | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [Mansfield Park] better than P. & P.' | [Mrs James] Tilson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language ... | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke... | [Mrs] Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke... | [Mr] Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoy... | Mary Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'. | Fanny Kemble | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.' | [Miss] Burrel | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Bramstone - much pleased with it; particularly with the character of Fanny, as being so very natural. Thought La... | [Mrs] Bramstone | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. bet... | Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, letter composed between 29 October-3 November 1838: 'I have just finished the play ... | Harriet St. Leger | Fanny Kemble | English Tragedy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.' | Anna Harwood | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it; - preferred it to either of the others.' | | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my Germa... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | German text/s | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.' | John Marsh | Erasmus Darwin | Zoonomia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.' | Thomas Egerton | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free... | Fanny Kemble | Anon | [Sicilian song] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Socie... | John Marsh | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan | A View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it t... | Lady Robert Kerr | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover wher... | John Marsh | C B E Naubert | Hermann of Unna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Sharpe - "I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Ch... | [Miss] Sharpe | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Carrick. - "All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park."' | [Mrs] Carrick | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after th... | George Pitts | James Hall | Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Ann Radcliffe | A Sicilian Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr J. Plumptre. - "I never read a novel which interested me so very much throughout, the characters are all so remark... | J. Plumptre | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike ... | Sir James Langham | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike ... | [Mr] Sanford | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Alethea Bigg. - "I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised. I like it myself & think it ver... | Alethea Bigg | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.' | Charles Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | Elizabeth Marsh | William Jackson | Thirty letters on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.' | [Mrs] Dickson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'. | [Mrs] Portal | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afte... | Lady Gordon | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Pole wrote, "There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by ... | [Mrs] Pole | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.' | [Admiral] Foote | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.' | [Mrs] Creed | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous ... | Thomas Wright | [n/a] | [Weekly Screamer] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | [Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genea... | | Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds) | Domestic papers of the Rose family | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ... | John Marsh | [unknown] | Life of Pope Sixtus V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ... | John Marsh | [unknown] | Life of Pope Sixtus V | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa... | John Marsh | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa... | Elizabeth Marsh | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | anon | [superstitious doctoring book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin... | Samuel Bamford | Edward Cocker | Cocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method of 1678 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | William Godwin | Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Cale... | John Marsh | William Godwin | Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach ... | John Marsh | Richard Cumberland | Henry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. ... | John Marsh | Benvenuto Cellini | The life of Benvenuto Cellini | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (... | John Marsh | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (... | John Marsh | George Keate | Sketches from nature, taken and coloured on a journey to Margate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent... | John Marsh | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking w... | John Marsh | Agnes Maria Bennett | The beggar girl and her benefactors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my nov... | John Marsh | [unknown] | [a novel] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room... | John Marsh | Alain-Rene Le Sage | The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merry Bachelor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ... | John Marsh | [anon] | Maria or The Vicarage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use..... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice o... | William Thom | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 oth... | John Marsh | Isaac d'Israeli | Varien; or Sketches of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Charlotte Smith | The Young Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Jane West | The History of Ned Evans | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . let me recommend to You, to borrow or get from the Circulating Library, "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley C... | Samuel Crisp | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers h... | Frances Burney | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w... | Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Outcasts or Henry Dunbar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", an... | Samuel Bamford | William Cobbett | [writings] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listen... | | William Hone | Political Litany | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality i... | Captain Frank Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.' | [Mrs Francis] Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.' | [Mrs J.] Bridges | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted ... | [Miss] Sharp | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.' | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like ... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil... | James Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil... | [Mrs James] Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.' | James Edward Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through... | [Miss] Bigg | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd - thought it as [italics] clever [end italics] as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasu... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.' | [Mrs] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.' | [Miss] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.' | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sherer - did not think it equal to either M P - (which he liked the best of all) or P & P. - Displeased with my pi... | [Mr] Sherer | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking al... | Miss Bigg | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The family at Upton Gray - all very amused with it. - Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs Beaufoy.' | [Mrs] Beaufoy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spo... | [Mrs] Leigh-Perrot | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spo... | [Mr] Leigh-Perrot | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of ... | [Countess] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.' | [Mrs] Guiton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got t... | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.' | [Miss] Terry | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character... | Henry Sanford | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Haden - [italics] quite [end italics] delighted with it. Admired the Character of Emma.' | [Mr] Haden | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced... | Isabella Herries | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.' | Harriet Moore | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Morley - delighted with it.' | [Countess] Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.' | [Mr] Cockerelle | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, ... | [Mrs] Dickson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters... | Benjamin Lefroy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.' | [Mr] Fowle | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the ... | [Mrs] Lutley Sclater | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it b... | [Mrs C.] Cage | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such... | [Mrs] Wroughton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.' | Sir J. Langham | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.' | Francis Jeffrey | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.' | [Miss] Murden | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my... | Charles Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.' | [Mrs D] Dundas | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most ex... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human l... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume gre... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in or... | Sir Walter Scott | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". Th... | Sir Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to a... | Sir Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to a... | Sir Walter Scott | Susan Ferrier | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel ... | Sir James Mackintosh | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling t... | Robert Southey | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own,... | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my ... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my ... | William Wordsworth | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of... | John Henry Newman | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl... | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl... | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Laplace | Mecanique Celeste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing ... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on o... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the p... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, ... | William Charles Macready | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of... | Frances Burney | unknown | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have ra... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (e... | Charlotte Bronte | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration... | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. S... | Frances Burney | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja... | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our f... | John Marsh | Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having heard much of Miss Hamilton's celebrated novel of the "Modern Philosopher" we on Wed'y the 14th got it from Hu... | Marsh family | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of modern philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended... | John Marsh | [Anon] | The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very li... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [local newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when re... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrim... | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this b... | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Two covenants | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he le... | Joseph Mayett | [unknown] | [religious books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had ... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort fro... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Shepherd of Salisbury Plain | Print: Book, chapbooks |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Farmer's fireside | Print: Book, chapbook |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Discontented pendulum | Print: Book, chapbook |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical prin... | Joseph Mayett | William Cobbett | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical prin... | Joseph Mayett | Thomas Wooler | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical prin... | Joseph Mayett | Richard Carlisle | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us ... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...' | Francis William Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K. | Edward Austen Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' | Edward Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' | George Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.' | Anna Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny' | Anna Austen | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.' | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' | [Miss] Burdett | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.' | [Mrs James] Tilson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.' | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' | [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' | [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.' | | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.' | | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Sharpe - "I think it "Mansfield Park"] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess ... | [Miss] Sharpe | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read M P["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to... | Alethea Bigg | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read M P ["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions t... | Alethea Bigg | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.' | Charles Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.' | [Mrs] Dickson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.' | [Mrs] Creed | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.' | [Mr] Sherer | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.' | [Mr] Sherer | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabe... | [Mr] Leigh Perrot | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabe... | [Mrs] Leigh Perrot | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very... | [Countess] Craven | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' | [Mrs] Digweed | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'. | Harriet Moore | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' | [Mrs] Brandreth | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.' | [Mrs] Lutley Sclater | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.' | [Mrs] Wroughton | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | Daphne du Maurier | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | A.J. Cronin | Keys of the Kingdom, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | J.B. Priestley | Good Companions, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | Francis Thompson | Hound of Heaven, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | unknown | Squinency Wort | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Various | Modern Short Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Wilton Cole | Speech and Sound | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Unknown | Background to the Life of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Winifred Darch | Eleanor in the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | J. Patterson Milne | Adventures of Jig and Co | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Norbert Davis | Rendezvous with Fear | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | James Elroy Flecker | Poetry of James Elroy Flecker | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | Escape | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Cecil Freeman Gregg | Body behind the Bar, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Critic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Lady Eleanor Smith | Magic Lantern | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | D.E. Stevenson | Listening Valley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Pearl Buck | Dragon Seed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Noel Coward | Rat Trap, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Noel Coward | Vortex, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Noel Coward | Fallen Angels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Lady Eleanor Smith | Spanish House, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | D.A. Smith | O the Brave Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Rudyard Kipling | Light that Failed, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | William Hazlitt | Best of Hazlitt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Guy Pocock | Then They Pulled Down the Blind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Dorothy L Sayers | Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | Portrait of a Man with Red Hair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | A.A. Milne | Winne-the-Pooh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | A.A. Milne | House at Pooh Corner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Louis Bromfield | Mrs Parkinson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Dornford Yates | Adele and Co | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | E.M. Almedingen | Frossia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Margery Sharp | Cluny Brown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Margery Sharp | Four Gardens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Hermione Gingold | World is Square, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Vaughan Wilkins | Being Met Together | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Various | Best Sporting Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | A. Quiller-Couch | Selected Stories by Q | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Dornford Yates | And Five were Foolish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Lyly | Campaspe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Lyly | Endimion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs Warren's Profession | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Kyd | Spanish Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Lyly | Galathea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Christopher Marlowe | Tambourlaine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Aristotle | Art of Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | George Peele | Old Wives Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Carter Dickson | Reader is Warned, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Alexander Woolcott | Long, Long Ago | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | R. Greene | Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | R. Greene | James IV of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Neil Bell | Handsome Langleys, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Willa Cather | Death Comes for the Archbishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Don Byrne | Island of Youth, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Peter Cheyney | I'll Say She Does | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | Man of Property, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | In Chancery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | To Let | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Denton Welch | In Youth is Pleasure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | On Forsyte Change | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Anon | Book of Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Nehemiah | Book of Nehemiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Te... | Christopher Thomson | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Peter Longueville | The hermit Philip Quarll | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o... | Christopher Thomson | Robert Boyle | Boyle's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib... | Christopher Thomson | [unknown] | [religious tracts] | Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib... | Christopher Thomson | [unknown] | [religious magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed ... | Christopher Thomson | Thomas Skinner | Splendid misery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | [Samuel?] Johnson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | Laurence Sterne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett... | Christopher Thomson | William Cobbett | Cobbett's political register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett... | Christopher Thomson | Thomas Jonathan Wooler | Black Dwarf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself ... | Christopher Thomson | Charles Knight | Penny Magazine | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after so... | Isaac | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Maga... | James Glass Bertram | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag... | James Glass Bertram | [unknown] | [various English periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his req... | G H Girle | G H Girle | [memoirs] | Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Cobbett | Advice to young men | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | George L. Craik | Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Tait | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fort... | | Walter Scott | The Monastery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fort... | | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Lives of the players | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Sir Andrew Wyllie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Smiles | [biographies of men] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i... | James Glass Bertram | James Lackington | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journals of Mary Shelley
"We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction" | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary, a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journals of Mary Shelley
"We read part of l'Abbe Barruels histoire de Jacobinism" | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Augustin Barruel | Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journals of Mary Shelley
"We read Abbe Barruel" | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Augustin Barruel | Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journals of Mary Shelley
"M. & S. walk to the shore of the lake & read the description of the seige of Jerusalem in T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Histories Book V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"I had often read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", recalled [...] William Brown, "and considered myself like the apostat... | William Brown | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Long sections of [Thomas] Hardy's "Memoir" had been read out to two of the [radical society (?London Corresponding So... | | Thomas Hardy | Memoir of Thomas Hardy, Founder of, and Secretary to, the London Corresponding Society ... From its Establishment in Jan. 1792 until his arrest on a False Charge of High Treason On the 12th of May 1794. Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Stephen Duck's habits in reading whilst working, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Ste... | Stephen Duck | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Stephen Duck's self-education by mutual improvement, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of... | Stephen Duck and friend | | mathematical texts | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Queen Caroline's discovery of the poetry of Stephen Duck, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Accou... | Queen Caroline | Stephen Duck | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child [...] [Charles Shaw] [...] accepted without much complaint that at the age of seven he should abandon his ... | | | book | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, an... | Thomas Carter | | storybooks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Thomas Carter on reading enabled at the dame-school run by his mother: '"I [...] gained some profit as well as pleasur... | Thomas Carter | | books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own... | Thomas Carter | | The Arminian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own... | Thomas Carter | | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | While living in London, the tailor Thomas Carter 'made a habit of taking his breakfast at one of the coffee shops [...... | Thomas Carter | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | Philip Quarll | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | Boyle | Travels | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | religious tracts | Print: Unknown |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | Cobbett's Political Register | Print: Newspaper |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | The Black Dwarf | Print: Newspaper |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | | mechanics' magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | | "boys' books" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | Dick | Christian Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | The Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | Pollock | The Course of Time | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | George Gifillan | The Bards of the Bible | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on theology | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on metaphysics | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | history books | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on belle lettres | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | | books on science | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio... | | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read... | Thomas Wood | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able ... | Samuel Bamford | | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'The anonymous Stonemason [author of "Reminiscences of a Stonemason, By a Working Man" (London, 1848)] [...] employed... | | | | Print: Unknown |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | books on history | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | foreign language grammar | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines:
'"Historical reading, or the gramma... | Thomas Cooper | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | Shepherd's Calendar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I had made a few visits to him, Mr De Quincey was so kind as to take some particular notice of me; and afterward... | Thomas de Quincey | Thomas de Quincey | George and Sarah Green | Print: Serial / periodical, proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of ... | workmen | Walter Scott | Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of ... | workmen | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Bentley's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo... | James Glass Bertram | Robert Chambers | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened... | James Glass Bertram | Mrs Johnstone | The Schoolmaster | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a sla... | William Farish | Walkingham | arithmetic textbook | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'J. A. Leatherland clubbed together with some like-minded velvet weavers to purchase, "'Harris's Hermes', from which w... | Kettering velvet-weavers | | Harris's Hermes | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '"Blind Henry's Life of Wallace was the first book that stirred my mind, and set me on a career of reading and thinkin... | | Henry | Life of Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The nineteenth-century cabinet maker William Lovett on the development of his literary and intellectual interests afte... | William Lovett | | texts on Christian religion | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secr... | Robert Story | Isaac Watts | Divine Songs for Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ... | James Dawson Burn | Chevalier Ramsay | Life of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua... | John Harris | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua... | Mary Smith | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua... | Thomas Carter | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Unknown |
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1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Unknown |
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1800-1849 | 'William Dodd [...] exposed to the full impact of the [eighteenth/nineteenth-century] factory system, found that once ... | William Dodd | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa... | Joseph Gutteridge | Voltaire | Dictionary of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa... | Joseph Gutteridge | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associate... | William Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollecti... | Joseph Arch | | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst wor... | Samuel Bamford | Robert Burns | volume containing life and writings of Burns | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of... | Thomas Carter | | The Bible | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English:
'"Borrowing... | John Clare | | 'Spelling Book' (grammar) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When William Lovett arrived in London [from Newlyn, in the 1820s] he possessed a Cornish accent but no useful knowled... | William Lovett | Lindley Murray | Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse | "Vier Neue Novellen" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henri Marc-Bonnet | "Histoire des Ordres Religieux" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | T.A. Trollope | La Beata | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Franco Sachetti | Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | W.G. Tenneman | Manual of the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while f... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Le Moyen Age Illustre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [article in the Athenaeum] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Montalambert | The Monks of the West | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Audin de Rians | [Introduction to Savonarola's Poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte on the Middle Ages' | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [on the Middle Ages] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache' | George Eliot [pseud] | Anthony Trollope | Orley Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Ernest Renan | ?tudes d?histoire religieuse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Buhle | Textbook on the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [MS article on Mad Dogs] | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry Hallam | [perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning' | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Gibbon | [on revival of Greek learning] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Savonarola's Sermons' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermons] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Discourse on Government | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on the Epistle of John] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | [Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good st... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anton Francesco Doni | I Marmi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni Boccaccio | [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot [pseud.] | anon | Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s... | George Eliot | Jacopo Nardi (probably) | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'. | George Eliot | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Francesco Sachetti | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'. | George Eliot | Burlamacchi | Life of Savonarola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Pulci'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | [probably] Luigi Pulci | [if this Pulci, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giovanni (?) Villani | Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] | Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Joseph Pettigrew | Medical Superstitions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.' | George Eliot | Girolamo Tiraboschi | [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Daniel Rock | Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Manni | [Life of Burchiello] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [article in the National] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Daniel Rock | Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marchese | Storia di San Marco | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [article on Mormons in Westminster Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Archivo Storico | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Vespasiano da Bisticci | [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV, | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ginguene in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Pierre Louis Ginguene | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Lewes | [compositions] | Manuscript: Unknown, compositions |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Nerli'. | George Eliot | unknown | Nerli | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot | [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Machiavelli's works'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Pasquale Villari | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Donato Giannotti | Della repubblica fiorentina | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"' | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cicero | De Officiis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot | Francesco Petrarch | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Selden | Titles of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Amans-Alexis Monteil | [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger | La Tancia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Louis Ginguene | [possibly] Histoire litteraire d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Lillie Craik | History of English Literature and the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [a satire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot | Epictetus | Enchiridion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Canti Carnascialeschi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Manni | Veglie Piacevole | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Theocritus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [Sixth Satire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino' | George Eliot [pseud] | Marco Lastri | Osservatore Fiorentino | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel' | George Eliot [pseud] | Goldwin Smith | [answer to Mansel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''In the evening Bekker's Charikles' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bekker (or Becker?) | Charikles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...' | George Eliot [pseud] | Humphrey Hody | De Graecis Illustribus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Mura... | George Eliot [pseud] | Scipioni Ammirato | Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Mu... | George Eliot [pseud] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | [unknown, on the Confraternita] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' | George Eliot [pseud] | Franco Sachetti | [probably] Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo' | George Eliot [pseud] | Francesco Filelfo | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | De Veritate Profetica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Conyers Middleton | Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren | [on the XVth Century] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Politian's Lamia' | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Malmantile' | George Eliot [pseud] | Malmantile | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [unknown -novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' | George Eliot [pseud] | Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) | [possibly a story from Le Cene] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Du Bois Reymond | [book on Johannes Mueler] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Istorie fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christ... | Elizabeth Goodman | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christ... | Elizabeth Goodman | | Ally Sloper's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christ... | Elizabeth Goodman (nursemaid) and Mew children | | Christmas numbers of magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Every day [...] [Charlotte Mew] had to read a fixed number of pages from "Line Upon Line", a book which re-tells the ... | Charlotte Mew | | Line Upon Line | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reaso... | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew | 'The Changeling' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Christina Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Coventry Patmore | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Alice Meynell | Preludes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Alice Meynell | "To A Daisy" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Cate... | Amy Greener | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Catarina to Camoens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from... | Lucy Harrison | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' "Field and Hedgerow", his last essays, a book publ... | Charlotte Mew | Richard Jeffries | Field and Hedgerow | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Charlotte [Mew] [...] was a passionate reader of Thomas Hardy'. | Charlotte Mew | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '"Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] ... | Ella D'Arcy | Charlotte Mew | "Requiescat" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1910, when Alfred Noyes's "Collected Poems" came out [...] [Charlotte Mew] read his "The Old Sceptic" and reflecte... | Charlotte Mew | Alfred Noyes | "The Old Sceptic" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl... | Charlotte Mew | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl... | Charlotte Mew | Anton Chekhov | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl... | Charlotte Mew | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl... | Charlotte Mew | Paul Verlaine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexu... | May Sinclair | Sigmund Freud | The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[May Sinclair] read [Freud] in German as soon as "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" and the "Three Essays on Sexu... | May Sinclair | Sigmund Freud | Three Essays on Sexuality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Charlotte Mew 'felt stunned' by May Sinclair's novel "The Combined Maze" (published February 1913), telling Mrs Cather... | Charlotte Mew | May Sinclair | The Combined Maze | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early spring of 1913 Sappho [i.e. Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, nicknamed after a poem she had authored] wrote i... | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlotte Mew's poem] "The Forest Road" is almost impossible to follow; Dr Scott [husband of Mew's friend Mrs Cather... | Dr Scott | Charlotte Mew | "The Forest Road" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Alida Klementaski] and Harold Monro first met at a poets' club dinner at the Cafe Monico on 14 March 1913. The subj... | Alida Klementaski | John Davidson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ... | Alida Klementaski | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ... | Catherine Dawson Scott | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Alida [Klementaski] bought for thirty shillings a West Highland terrier which she had seen advertised in "Exchange an... | Alida Klementaski | | Exchange and Mart | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff litt... | Sydney Cockerell | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | Wilfred Scawen Blunt | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | A. E. Housman | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate... | Florence Hardy | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of ... | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of ... | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew | "Saturday Market" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rat... | Charles Greville | Cicero | Second Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, an... | Charles Greville | | Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmersto... | Charles Greville | | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Diary of a late physician | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Ten thousand a year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes o... | Ford Madox Ford | Rudyard Kipling | Only a subaltern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The f... | Charles Greville | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, ... | Charles Greville | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Sydney Cockerell | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Thomas Hardy | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoo... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | "Madeleine in Church" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Plays including Richard III and King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Over the New Year [1922] [...] [Charlotte Mew] went down to Cambridge and, as a particular treat, Sydney [Cockerell, ... | Charlotte Mew | Bronte | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary, a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We read Shakespeare'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talk and read the newspapers'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [romance] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'. | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | The excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Shelley] reads part of "Caleb Williams" to us.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Things as they are: or, the adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [chronicle of conquest of the Morea] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"' | George Eliot | George Finlay | A History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | La Mandragola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena | La Calandra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Romola | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1850-1899 | This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main p... | Charles Lewes | Anthony Trollope | Orley Farm | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point an... | George Eliot [pseud] | Luigi Pulci | [probably] Morgante | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Conquest in America, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades' | George Eliot [pseud] | Heinrich von Sybel | History and Literature of the Crusades | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Casa Guidi Windows | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ... | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [books on medieval Greece] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Christopher Wordsworth | Greece | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Poetes Latins de la Decadence | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Juvenal | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". T... | George Eliot [pseud] | Meiner | [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Processi | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio' | George Eliot [pseud] | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Il Principe".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Il Principe | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip... | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Stanze | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip... | George Eliot [pseud] | Poliziano | Orfeo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Girolamo Savonarola | Compendium Revelationum | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Romola | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Aristotle, a Chapter from the History of Science | Manuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Theodor Mommsen | [one of his Roman history works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Wetmore Story | Roba di Roma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henry George Liddell | A History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourage... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Eliot (pseud.) | The Spanish Gipsy | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of own work |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Prescott again and made notes' | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] William Prescott | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Aeschlyus | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Philip Wentworth Buckham | Theatre of the Greeks | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Julius Leopold Klein | Geschichte des Dramas | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Annual Register, The | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [possibly] William Blackstone | [Commentaries on the laws of England?] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [English history in reign of George III] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'. | Mr and Mrs Wigan | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Rivals | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'. | Mr and Mrs Wigan | Alfred Lord Tennyson | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Grote's Plato] | Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu | Contes populaires des anciens Bretons | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentleme... | Charlotte Mew | Anita Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentleme... | Caroline Frances Anne Mew | Anita Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came... | Charlotte Mew | David Garnett | Go She Must | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint
[...]
Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nachei... | James Joyce | Otto Weinginer | ?ber die letzten Dinge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read ... | Florence Hardy | Thomas Hardy | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which... | Thomas Hardy | Charlotte Mew | "Fin de Fete" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".' | Reginald Heber | Felicia Dorothea Browne | War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Friedrich von Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Johann Gottfried von Herder | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Johan Wolfgang Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and G... | Felicia Hemans | Karl Theodor Korner | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[e... | Felicia Hemans | John Chetwode Eustace | A Classical Tour of Italy, An. MDCCCII (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading of Herder's ballad collection "Volkslieder". | Felicia Hemans | Johann Gottfried von Herder | Volkslieder | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedg... | Felicia Hemans | Catherine Maria Sedgwick | Hope Leslie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'. | Felicia Hemans | unknown | Memoir of the Queen of Prussia | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading some of [...] [Mary Tighe's] early poems in manuscript, F[elicia]H[emans] wrote a sonnet, "On Records o... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Tighe | early poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'You have, I know, perused the papers (as I have done,) wit... | Felicia Browne | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Browne to her aunt, Miss Wagner, 19 December 1808: 'I have been reading a most delightful French romance, by M... | Felicia Browne | Stephanie Felicite de Crest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Le Siege de la Rochelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, wit... | Felicia Browne | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, wit... | Felicia Browne | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, wit... | Felicia Browne | Jane Porter | The Scottish Chiefs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicity Browne, mother of Felicia Browne, to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812: 'I saw in the paper some time ago, t... | Felicity Browne | | advertisement for poetry translation competition | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Felicity Browne, mother of Felicia Browne, to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812: 'I saw in the paper some time ago, t... | Felicity Browne | | newspaper (reporting progress of Peninsular Campaign) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to John Murray, 26 February 1817, having just sent to him the MS of "Modern Greece": 'Had I been aware ... | Felicia Hemans | | advertisements for books on the arts | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beau... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed ... | Alfred Tennyson | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Falklands | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By a quaint coincidence I received your letter directed (I suppose) by Phillip van Artevelde with Philip himself (not... | Alfred Tennyson | Henry Taylor | Philip van Artevelde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some t... | Felicia Hemans | Dr Alexander Brunton | Memoir of Mary Brunton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some t... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Brunton | Emmeline: With Some Other Pieces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present o... | Felicia Hemans | Caroline Bowles | Solitary Hours | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present o... | Felicia Hemans | Caroline Bowles | poetical/prose "pieces" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of Germa... | Felicia Hemans | Johann Heinrich Voss | poem ("nuptial benediction") | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to the Reverend Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828: 'I do not know whether you are at all a Lover of Germa... | Felicia Hemans | Germaine de Stael | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and co... | Felicia Hemans | | Reports on Mary Russell Mitford's play, Rienzi | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and co... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi (excerpts) | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'wh... | Felicia Hemans | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates hi... | Alfred Tennyson | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is to let you know that I am at present in the classiz neighbourhood of Bolton Abbey whither I was led the other... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | The white doe of Rylstone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ps. Have you read Miss Martineau on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum (two of them). I have got them and if you like I will... | Alfred Tennyson | Harriet Martineau | Miss Martineau on Mesmerism | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '... therefore was my satisfaction great to receive (as I did this morning) a copy of your works with your own friendl... | Alfred Tennyson | Ferdinand Freiligrath | Englische Gedichte als Neurer Zeit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lovely lines - but I knew them before ... the two last, two years ago in ... Schneidemn's Greek fragments - a book Fr... | Alfred Tennyson | F W Schneidewin | Delectus Presis Graeconim elegiacae, iambinis, melicae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just got Festus - order it and read. You will most likely find it a great bore, but there are really very gran... | Alfred Tennyson | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got your beautiful book of Ballads the other day at Moxon's. It contains (as far as I have seen it) much that is sw... | Alfred Tennyson | Mary Hewitt | Ballads and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His Irish book seems to me from the little I have read very clever.' | Alfred Tennyson | Aubrey de Vere | English Misdeeds and Irish Misrule | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [title underlined].' | Alfred Tennyson | Sophocles (?) | Oedipus Coloneus [sic] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].' | Alfred Tennyson | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.' | Alfred Tennyson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.' | Alfred Tennyson | Coventry Patmore | The aesthetics of gothic architecture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have only just returned to town, and found the Rhyming Chronicle [title underlined]. Your cousin must be worth know... | Alfred Tennyson | Jean Ingelow | Rhyming chronicle of incidents and feelings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Moultrie's poem seems spirited but I have had no time to study it well.' | Alfred Tennyson | John Moultrie | The Black Fence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolat... | Ford Madox Ford | Stephen Crane | The Red badge of courage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Plato | On the immortality of the soul | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Plutarch | Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Confucius | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My master said to me one day, he was surprized that I did not learn to write my own letters, and added, that he was s... | James Lackington | anon | various scraps of writing | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my fri... | James Lackington | Thomas Amory | The life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As to the little knowledge of literature I possess, I acquired that by dint of application. In the beginning I attach... | James Lackington | anon | various on divinity and moral philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Hesbert | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Tindall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Chubb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Morgan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Woolston | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Annet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Mandeville | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Sheftesbury | [?] Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Bolingbroke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ... | James Lackington | unknown | [English poets] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ... | James Lackington | unknown | Various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have also read most of our best plays.? | James Lackington | unknown | various English plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Tobias Smollet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Samuel Richardson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Frances Burney | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Lawrence Sterne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Le Sage | Gil Blas (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Pray, said Mr Thrale, do you read much??
?When I can meet with large Print,? answered the old Gentleman.
?Did you e... | Henry Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h... | Frances Burney | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with... | Henrietta Frances Ponsonby | Shakespeare | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but i... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put t... | Frances Burney | | Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke. | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me... | James Lackington | unknown | various | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe... | James Lackington | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe... | James Lackington | Wesley | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal... | Frances Burney | Whalley | Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? for a long time I read ten chapters in the Bible every day, I also read and learned many hymns, and as soon as I co... | James Lackington | Wesley | Tracts and Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] says Dr. Barnard, the Provost of Eaton, has been singing the praises of my Book . . .' | Edward Barnard | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle... | James Lackington | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . & that old Dr. Lawrence has read it ["Evelina"] through 3 Times within this last Month!' | Dr Lawrence | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w... | James Lackington | Epictetus | Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w... | James Lackington | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it alo... | Hester Thrale | Hannah Cowley | The Maid of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?"She has heard a great deal of you, ? & has seen some of your Letters" . . . I am [ital] very [ital] much concerned, ... | Anne Leigh | Frances Burney | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we want... | James Lackington | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in... | Frances Burney | | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Newton | Dissertations of the Prophecies with the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | David Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however ... | William Lamb | unknown | [a Greek play] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Lady Georgiana Morpeth | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti
Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente
Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ride... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Faustina Maratti Zappi | Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like ext... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle. As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Stephanie de Genlis | Le Siege de la Rochelle, ou le malheur et la conscience | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Laodamia | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | Lines. Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to ?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830, describing visit to Wordsworth's home Rydal Mount: 'The whole of this ... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | sonnets | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of wh... | Felicia Hemans | John Gibson Lockhart | Review of Thomas Moore's Life of Byron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr He... | Henry Tighe | Felicia Hemans | "The Graves of a Household" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscr... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Felicia Browne [later Hemans] | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, ... | Joanna Baillie | Felicia Hemans | American edition comprising two collections of poetical works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | uncollected poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | National Lyrics and Songs for Music | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | "Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | Scenes and Hymns of Life &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | "Elysium" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare;... | Felicia Browne | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'after having heard those beautiful stanzas addressed to his sister ... | Felicia Hemans | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Stanzas ("My Sister -- my sweet Sister") | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir John Moore | A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year disc... | Lady Caroline Lamb (nee Ponsonby) | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that lang... | Lady Caroline Lamb | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not thin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Childe Harold
I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with &... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"perchance my dog will whine in vain
"Till fed my stranger hands--
"But long e'er I come back again
"he'd tear me ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & h... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Jacques Cazotte | Le diable amoreux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Crabbe | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lines to a Lady Weeping | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister.
They talk of you in a mann... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Trist... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke o... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Choderlos de Laclos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never m... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Robert Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sometimes I try if I can talk in that Jargon I us'd to hear but I cannot endure it & the remembrance of what you said... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Rogers | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I reall... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | Waverly | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did n... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stanzas to Augusta | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Homer | unknown | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Toquato Tasso | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--b... | Lady Caroline Lamb | | The Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affe... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Amelia Opie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather t... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Mathew (Monk) Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'. | William Lamb | Lady Caroline Lamb | Ada Reis | Manuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer. |
| 1850-1899 | '... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels c... | Arnold Bennett | Silas Hocking | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'. | William Godwin | Lady Caroline Lamb | Graham Hamilton | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improv... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st... | Lady Caroline Lamb | unknown | Shadows in the Water | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st... | Lady Caroline Lamb | unknown | [chinese story] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my o... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and l... | Lady Caroline Lamb | J.G. Lockhart | Some Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful eff... | Arnold Bennett | Karl Baedeker | [guidebook on Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.' | Arnold Bennett | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '"drudge like Selden days & nights
And in the Endless labour die"'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Bentley | A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Wo... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Godwin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | [Memoirs] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'. | Augusta Leigh | Lady Caroline Lamb | [letters and verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'. | Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) | Lady Caroline Lamb | [letters and verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Excursion & Madoc.' | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Excursion & Madoc.' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Madoc: a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'M Read Madoc all morning.' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Madoc: a poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek & Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls.' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.' | Mary Godwin | Veit Weber | Die Teufelsbeschworung / The Sorcerer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads Political Justice all the morning'. | Mary Godwin | William Godwin | An enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on general virtue and happiness | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From fine I turned to applied art, diverted by a periodical called The Girl's Own Paper. For a long period this month... | Arnold Bennett | | Girl's Own | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at... | Arnold Bennett | Anon | Ugly Duckling | Print: Book |
| | 'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workho... | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a child, recollections from an old potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the ... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Ouida | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Emile Zola | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous con... | Arnold Bennett | Grant Allen | What's bred in the bone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | George Paston | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | H G Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of ficti... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-b... | Charles Knight | | The Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every mornin... | Mary Berry | | Psalms and chapters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, 'Notes of Early Life': 'My dear grandmother [...] made me read the Psalms and chapters to her every mornin... | Mary Berry | Addison and Steele (ed.) | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, Friday 9 April [Good Friday] 1784: 'In the evening [...] To the Academy of Arcadians, which was a... | Mary Berry | unknown | Sonnets on the Passion of Christ | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces passages from posthumously-published writings of the 23-year-old Madame Roland, transcri... | Mary Berry | Madame Roland | (passages from) Reverie du Bois de Vincennes | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud] | Fawcett | Economic Condition of the Working Classes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Friedrich Strauss | Life of Jesus [second version] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Neale | History of the Puritans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'. | Elizabeth Gaskell | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Bible' | George Eliot [pseud.] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Hallam's Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henry Hallam | The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [perhaps] History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | A System of Logic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [English History and Law] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Eliot (pseud.) | Felix Holt | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Friedrich Bouterwek | Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Georges Bernard Depping | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Juan Antonio Llorente | [Spanish history] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Georges Depping | Juifs au Moyen Age | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [works on music and acoustics] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ernest Renan | Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Ticknor | History of Spanish Literature | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Cornewall Lewis | Astronomy of the Ancients | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Simon Ockley | History of the Saracens | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [books on Astronomical Geography] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Los Judios en Espana | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Percy (ed.) | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Isis | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Iliad, book III'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | William Henry Prescott | History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ernest Renan | Averroes et l'Averroisme | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Eliakim Carmoly | Histoire des M?decins Juifs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | First Principles | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Henry Lewes | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Salomon Munk | Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Guillemin | [presumably astronomy text] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Lubbock | Prehistoric Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Lucretius | De Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Warton | History of English Poetry, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Grote | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Marcus Aurelius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Auguste Comte | Syst?me de politique positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edwin Guest | History of English Rhythms, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Frederick Denison Maurice | Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [philology books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | [Mrs] Grey | [Etruscan subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Dennis | Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Alchemist, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Bright | [Speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Bright | [4th speech on India] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | [Italian story] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | W Thomson | [essay in Revue des Cours] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Matthew Arnold | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Bright | [speech on Ireland and Church Establishment] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n... | George Eliot [pseud] | [n/a] | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'. | George Henry Lewes | [unknown] | Seraphime | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hermann von Helmholtz | [book on music] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [books on plants] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot [pseud] | Lucretius | De Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Victor Hugo | L'Homme Qui Rit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar... | George Eliot | Willhelmine von Hillern | Ein Arzt der Seele | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Co... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir Nisard | Histoire de la litt?rature fran?aise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Ancient Geography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Smith | Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | Vegetable World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Drayton | Nymphidia, The Court of Fairy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Drayton | Polyolbion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes' | George Eliot [pseud] | Louis Reybaud | Etudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read about Fourier and Owen' | George Eliot [pseud] | [unknown] | [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte' | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Littre | [on Comte] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot | Theocritus | 22nd Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Dickson | Fallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'. | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"' | George Eliot | Pierre Victor Renouard | History of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Life of or by William Cullen] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | Rutherford Russell | History and Heroes of Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | Aristophanes | Ecclesiazusae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Bekker | Charikles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Mandeville (pseud.) | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot | Max Muller | History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot [pseud] | William Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | [probably] Principles of Psychology, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I waited with much impatience for the "Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbo... | John Playfair | | The Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious bo... | John Playfair | Condorcet | [unidentified posthumously-published work] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Brand' to Mary Berry, January 1798: 'Lady Ossory, to alleviate my confinement with a very bad cold, has treated me... | Mr Brand | Horace Walpole, Lord Orford | Letters to Lady Ossory | Manuscript: Unknown |
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1800-1849 | Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a... | The Honourable Caroline Howe | unknown | Classical Greek texts | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a... | The Honourable Caroline Howe | unknown | Latin texts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamle... | Sarah Siddons | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as y... | Mary Berry | Isocrates | oration | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, October 1798: 'Do you know that I have been working as hard at Greek for this week past as y... | Mary Berry and parson | Isocrates | oration | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers'... | Mary Berry | August von Kotzebue | Lovers' Vows | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers'... | Mary Berry | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Wraxhall | work on period of Henry III (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Wraxhall | work on period of Henry III (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Condorcet | [book including discussion on population] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 11 December 1798: '[William] Roscoe has just sent us a poem of his translation from an It... | Mary Berry | Luigi Tansillo | "The Nurse" | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers o... | Mary Berry | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear... | Mary Berry | Thomas Somerville | History of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen Anne; with a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will ... | Mary Berry | Colonel Mathew | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will ... | Mary Berry | | Cease your Funning | |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am r... | Mary Berry | Wilberforce | ?Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am r... | Mary Berry | Thomas Belsham | A Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 19 February 1799: 'Mr. Sotheby sent me his "Battle of the Nile." [...] There seems to be ... | Mary Berry | William Sotheby | "The Battle of the Nile" | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though b... | Mary Berry | Hannah More | Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though b... | Mary Berry | Mary Wollstonecraft | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 17 May 1799: 'I was much entertained by some letters which [Uvedale] Price showed me from... | Mary Berry | Charles James Fox | letter to Uvedale Price on series of plays | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, Thursday 23 May 1799: 'I began Homer's Iliad on Wednesday last, to my no small delight, a... | Mary Berry | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: ... | G., Dowager Lady Spencer | William Mason | Poems (third volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 5 October 1799: 'Mentioning [...] [Madame de Coigny] puts me in mind of a book which I am... | Mary Berry | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Merc... | Mary Berry | Bartholomew Mercier | Le Nouveau Paris | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Merc... | Mary Berry | Bartholomew Mercier | Tableau de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Merc... | Mary Berry | Mackintosh | [unidentified "accounts of hs proposed lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations"] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Mary Berry, in letter of 2 January 1800: 'I have been reading [...] a new novel of Godwin's, in four vols., called "Th... | Mary Berry | William Godwin | St Leon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | [Greek] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Anacreon | [odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.' | Perct Bysshe Shelley | Diogenes Laertius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab: a philosophical poem with notes | Manuscript: Unknown, owned by author |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Edward du Bois | St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, translated from the oiginl Latin MS. under the immediate inspection of the prince by John Brown, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Smith Surtees | [probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | Rudyard Kipling | Kim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | George Alfred Henty | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Michael Ballantyne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | Henry Rider Haggard | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le ... | Lawrence Durrell | [n/a] | Le Figaro | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Aldous Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | H.G. Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] | Death of a Hero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Edith Sitwell | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | unknown Nichols | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Siegfried Sassoon | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Graves | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Thomas Stearns Eliot | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Francois Rabelais | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Francois Villon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Charles Pierre Baudelaire | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Arthur Rimbaud | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Sigmund Freud | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Havelock Ellis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Norman Haire | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Philip Sidney | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Christopher Marlowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Thomas Nashe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Greene | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Cyril Tourneur | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Peel | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | William Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | Edward Fitzgerald | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Percy Wyndham Lewis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Remy de Gourmont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing | [probably] Psychopathia Sexualis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | David Herbert Lawrence | Sea and Sardinia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | George Norman Douglas | South Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Pr... | Lawrence Durrell | Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the wrongs of woman.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Abbe Barruel | History of the Illuminati | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Posthumous works.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zastrozzi'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Abbe Barruel | Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Marcus Tullius Cicero | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish St Leon.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Wiiliam Godwin | St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Caleb Williams.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Wiiliam Godwin | Things as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Comus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be... | John Stuart Mill | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours... | John Stuart Mill | anon | The Annual Register | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum... | John Stuart Mill | Philip Beaver | African memoranda relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792. With a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Gilbert Burnet | History of my Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum... | John Stuart Mill | Collins | [account of the first settlement of New South Wales] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I ... | John Stuart Mill | Diogenes Laertius | Lives of the Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Watson | History of the Reign of Philip II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Watson | History of Philip III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours... | John Stuart Mill | William Robertson | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | David Hume | The History of England (presumably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Nathaniel Hooke | Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Isocrates | Ad Nicoclem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Isocrates | Ad Demonicum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Lucian | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Xenophon | Cyropaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Xenophon | Memorials of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be... | John Stuart Mill | Xenophon | The Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | Euthyphro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | Theaetetus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | John Rutty | History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | William Sewell | The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topogr... | John Cole | Tymms | Family Topographer | Print: Proof |
| 1800-1849 | '... I took up a London paper, and the first object in it which struck my eye, was the death of Charles Lamb. I felt i... | John Cole | anon | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Nathaniel Hawthorne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Ambrose Bierce | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Sidney Lanier | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Mark Twain | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read letter from Rev R Garvey of Lincoln (?) reps. Lecture'. | John Cole | R Garvey | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse ... | George Eliot [pseud] | William R. Grove | On the Correlation of Physical Forces | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Gibson Lockhart | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | James Anthony Froude | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [correspondence with Valat] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Friedrich August Wolf | Prolegomena ad Homerum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Paul (pseud.) | Leben des Quintus Fixlein | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [on Sicilian History] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856' | George Eliot [pseud] | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | "Principles of Success in Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [Social Function...] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Physical Basis of Mind, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work' | George Eliot [pseud] | | [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [journal, 1874] | Manuscript: Unknown, journal |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [various works Eliot was revising] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Spanish Drama, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my darling's first article on Goethe' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [first article on Goethe] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Problem III' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of Organism | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'unable to read anything except "Times".' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Times, The | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe' | George Eliot [pseud] | W. Kingdom Clifford | First and Last Castrophe, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | [on socialism] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Spencer's Psychology' | George Eliot [pseud] | Herbert Spencer | Principles of Psychology | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read on the colour-sense' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [on colour sense] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hugo Magnus | Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Allen Grant | Colour Sense: its Origin and Development, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read my darling's M.S. on Language' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [on language] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Foster | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Craster letter received'.. | John Cole | unknown | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Day wet - read'. | John Cole | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Scriptures and Natural history readings'. | John Cole | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary, William and Emma commenced their readings of Thomson.' | Mary, William and Emma Cole | Thomson | The Seasons [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.' | John Cole | unknown | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the month in Honitt's "Book of the seasons".' | John Cole | Honitt | Book of the seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [article on Philosophy in France] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Re-read "Laws of Operation".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps) | [perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of Mathematics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's st... | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Herzen | La Condizione fisica della Coscienza | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [essay on Dwarfs and Giants] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain (?) | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | [book IV - of Iliad?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Michael Foster | Textbook of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | [probably] History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Biographical History of Philosophy, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederick Pollock | [biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Edward Caird | [probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | The Grave | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection... | Thomas Carter | [unknown] | The Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection... | Thomas Carter | Dr Porteus | Death | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Joseph Addison | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Gray | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | [John] Collins | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | William Falconer | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Pomfret | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Mark Akenside | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Elizabeth Rowe | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Gay | Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Gay | [burlesque 'pastorals'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Gay | The Village Curate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly thr... | Mary Berry | Germaine De Stael | Delphine (three volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to a friend, from Nice, March 1803: 'I am reading over for the fiftieth time, I believe, the letters of Mad... | Mary Berry | Madame De Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, from Cambridge, 28 September 1804:
'In going into a great library, it often occurs to... | John Playfair | | Theatrum Cometicum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces 1805 letter from Mary Berry (writing as Catherine Fanshawe) to Catherine Fanshawe, in re... | Mary Berry | Catherine Fanshawe | "Ode, by Mary Berry." | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translati... | Mr Greathead | Greathead | "Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation after Boccaccio) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translati... | Mary Berry | Greathead | "Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation after Boccaccio) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807: 'Read a little of the "Lamento di Cecco," which, having often heard of, I had nev... | Mary Berry | Francesco Baldovini | 'Lamento di Cecco' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 23 August 1807: 'I remained in my room the whole morning reading Mr. Greathead [her host]'s Journ... | Mary Berry | Mr Greathead | Journals | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 29 August 1807: 'In the evening read a good deal of the last Scotch Review [...] What they say of... | Mary Berry | | The Scotch Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 October 1807: 'In the evening began reading the "Life of Clarendon".' | Mary Berry | Lister | Life of Clarendon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 11 November 1807: 'In the evening I read aloud "Clarendon's Life".' | Mary Berry | Lister | Life of Clarendon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 16 November 1807: 'Read "Clarendon's Life" aloud in the evening.' | Mary Berry | Lister | Life of Clarendon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 November 1807: 'After dinner read aloud some of Madame du Deffand's letters.' | Mary Berry | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 23 November 1807: 'In Madame Neckar's ridiculous Remains, published by her husband, are some of t... | Mary Berry | Madame Neckar | Remains | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."' | Mary Berry | Roscoe | [unidentified pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."' | Mary Berry | William Spence | England Independent of Commerce | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1808: 'I went in the evening to Mrs. D[?amer]. Read "Marmion," just come out, to her.' | Mary Berry | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 10 March 1808: 'Read some more of "Marmion".' | Mary Berry | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 14 March 1808: 'Began reading the "Odyssey" of Homer in Pope's translation. Delighted with it.' | Mary Berry | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 20 April 1808: 'At night finished Miss Warren's novel ["Conrade, or the Gamesters" by galloping o... | Mary Berry | Caroline Matilda Warren | Conrade, or the Gamesters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's "Travels in America", in the north-western se... | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again. They are, I think, very entert... | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the lette... | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the lette... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | Draft preface to edition of letters of Mme du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].' | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.' | Mary Berry | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 6 May 1808: 'Mrs D[?amer] and I finished [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].' | Mary Berry and [?Anne Damer] | Thomas Ashe | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 10 May 1808: 'I began reading aloud Gell's "Ithaca".' | Mary Berry | William Gell | The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 11 May 1808: 'In the evening, Gell's "Ithaca".' | Mary Berry | William Gell | The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 17 May 1808: 'Read in the "Times" the confirmation of the wreck and positive loss of Lord Royston." | Mary Berry | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 2 June 1808: 'I began reading aloud Mr. Fox's historical work, in the beautiful large-paper copy ... | Mary Berry | Charles James Fox | Historical Work | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 3 June 1808: 'I continued reading Fox's work. It is very well to read it once out; but it sugges... | Mary Berry | Charles James Fox | Historical Work | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charle... | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Corruption' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charle... | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Intolerance' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.' | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Intolerance' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.' | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Corruption' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | Life and Works of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Sully | [article on G.H. Lewes] | Manuscript: proof of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Voltaire (pseud.) | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Plato - Republic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Plato | Republic,The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Merritt (Mrs) | [recollections of her husband] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | Hebrew texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Algebra] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Purgatorio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Grote on the Sophists'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'. | George Eliot [pseud] | George Henry Lewes | [letters to George Eliot] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Albrecht Weber | History of Indian Literature, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Monier Williams' | George Eliot [pseud] | Monier Monier Williams | [presumably work on Sanskrit] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George John Romanes | Candid Examination of Theism, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Cornelis Petrus Tiele | Outlines of the History of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'. | George Eliot [pseud] | John Hill Burton | history of the reign of Queen Anne, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frances Anne Kemble | Records of a Girlhood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles' | George Eliot [pseud] | unknown | [Jewish chronicles] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical... | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Hebrew Migration from Egypt, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | anon. | Prose Edda, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Victor Hugo | Ruy Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | [probably] Archibald Henry Sayce | [if this Sayce then work of Assyriology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Le Rond D'Alembert | Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Hermann and Dorothea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max MUller's Lectures on the Science of Language'. | George Eliot and John Cross | Herbert Spencer | Principles of Sociology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max Muller's Lectures on the Science of Language'. | George Eliot and John Cross | Friedrich Max Muller | Lectures on the Science of Language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff... | Thomas Carter | [n/a] | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [poems including 'The First Quarrel'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Margaret Oliphant | My faithful Johnny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederic William Henry Myers | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | David Friedrich Strauss | Das Leben Jesu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas De Quincey | 'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the English Opium-Eater', in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly ... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Campbell | Letters from Algiers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Lion: A Tale of the Coteries, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Moliere (pseud.) | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'. | Harriet Martineau | Alfred de Vigny | Cinq Mars | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we read one of Carlyle's articles, at the T. Sedgwicks'.' | Harriet Matineau and Mary Appleton | Thomas Carlyle | [an article] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Chartism" gave me more pleasure and less pain than I expected: but the more I think it over the worse it looks. Ther... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Chartism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - t... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | Athenaeum [review of Carlyle's Chartism] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Gre... | Harriet Martineau | George Grey | Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia, 1837-1839 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; b... | Harriet Martineau | various authors | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '"Past and Present", very bad, insolent, bitter, one-sided and full of weary repetitions. I found i... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "C... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I li... | Harriet Martineau | various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreea... | Harriet Martineau | Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) | Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann | Print: Book |
| | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read "Barillon's Letters" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.' | Mary Berry | Barillon | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in La... | Mary Berry | Mrs Warburton | Letters to the Duchess of Argyll | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in La... | Mary Berry | Duchess of Queensbury | Letters to Lady Greenwich | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in La... | Mary Berry | | Letters to Lady Greenwich | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of M... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Duke of Milan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads ve... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Duke of Milan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having ... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Fatal Dowry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 10 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Lord and Lady Rosslyn a... | Mary Berry | Captain Adam | Letter to father | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas ... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | Draft preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas ... | Mary Berry | unknown | The Tale of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very an... | Mary Berry | unknown | [C14th-C15th manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 28 April 1809: 'In the morning I saw Joanna [Baillie]. She stayed nearly an hour with me. I rea... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | "Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | "Notice upon Madame du D[effand]'s Life" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortl... | Mary Berry | Joanna Baillie | The Family Legend (acts 1, 2, 3, 5) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 7 June 1809: 'Mrs Cholmley and two of her daughters and Walter Scott breakfasted with us. Shortl... | F. Cholmley | Joanna Baillie | The Family Legend (act 4) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Webb Seymour to Mary Berry, 16 July 1809:
'I hope you will congratulate [John] Playfair for me and for yourse... | Lord Galloway | John Playfair | Peerage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, August 1809: 'I have been reading a strange poem -- the "Columbiad" of Poet [Joel] Barlow. Who o... | Mary Berry | Joel Barlow | The Columbiad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [make... | Mary Berry | unknown | account of military campaign in Spain | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Life of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very live... | Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales | unknown | [books of engravings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, receiv... | John Playfair | Mary Berry | Preface and notes to Letters of Madame du Deffand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, receiv... | John Playfair | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Cambridge' to Mary Berry: 'I was about to take up my pen to you to express the pleasure and satisfaction we have j... | Mr Cambridge | Mary Berry | Life of Madame du Deffand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I go... | Mr Hope | Mary Berry | Preface and Notes to Letters of Madame du Deffand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I go... | Mr Hope | Mary Berry | Life of Madame du Deffand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Roscoe' to Mary Berry: 'I may almost be said to have past the last ten or twelve days in your society; for having ... | Mr Roscoe | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, Sunday 14 October 1810, on stay in Greathead household at Guy's Cliff: '[After church attendance]... | Mr Greathead | Clarke | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 16 March 1811: 'I had heard from Lord Stafford, at Lady Spencer's the night before, that the "Sco... | Mary Berry | anon | Review of Mary Berry, ed., Letters of Madame du Deffand | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Lette... | M. G. Lewis | Madame du Deffand | Letters (2 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, Saturday 18 May 1811: 'I went with Joanna Baillie to Hampstead, to remain till Monday. Dined bef... | Mary Berry and Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | The Two Martius | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, Saturday 18 May 1811: 'I went with Joanna Baillie to Hampstead, to remain till Monday. Dined bef... | Mary Berry and Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | ["scraps" of writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 May 1811, on stay with Joanna Baillie at Hampstead: 'Sat by the fire the whole day. Joanna Ba... | Mary Berry | Joanna Baillie | Hope | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [J... | John Thelwall | John Milton | 'Invocation to Light' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must c... | Harriet Martineau | James Esdaile | Mesmerism in India and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Can you tell me about "Jane Eyre", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve ... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Heny Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | [possibly the story, 'Stopped Payment, at Cranford' in Household Words, April 1853] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'. | Harriet Martineau | John William Kaye | Life and Correspondence of... Sir John Malcolm, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'. | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read... | Harriet Martineau | Sam Brown | Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scientific and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disprop... | Harriet Martineau | Henry Buckle | History of the Civilisation in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has ... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great [extracts of] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking | Harriet Martineau | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | William Godwin | Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zadig.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Zadigi ou la destinee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the life of Alfieri.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the life of Alfieri'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Louvets memoires' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read aloud to Jane.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read all evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read I don't know what.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O ... | Harriet Martineau | Sara Sophia Hennell | Thoughts in Aid of Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Maria | Heny Thomas Buckle | History of Civilization in England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Harriet Martineau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its C... | Harriet Martineau | John Lothrop Motley | Causes of the Civil War in America [probably] | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I'm afraid you would give me up if you knew how I am longing for the second series of "Mrs Delany". The first was an ... | Harriet Martineau | Augusta Llanover (ed.) | Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granvile (Mrs Delany) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | David Hume | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read [Mr Lucas's book]? "Secularia; Surveys on the Main Stream of History"... It altogeth... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Lucas | Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been remonstrating with Mr Knight about a couple of sentences in his charming new volume "Some Passages i... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Knight | Passages of a Working Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much ... | Harriet Martineau | Theresa Lewis | Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much ... | Harriet Martineau | George Grote | Plato, and the other Companions of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South... | Harriet Martineau | Mary Grote | A Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that ... | Harriet Martineau | Matthew Arnold | 'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi... | Harriet Martineau | [unknown] | [Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi... | Harriet Martineau | [unknown] | Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi... | Harriet Martineau | [unknown] | The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Babbage | Passages from the Life of a Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did no... | Harriet Martineau | James Anthony Froude | History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada [presumably part of] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It ... | Harriet Martineau | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Barry Cornwall | Charles Lamb: A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Ross | The Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Cornwallis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Grote | Collected Papers in Prose and Verse. 1842-1862 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fan Arnold lends me the "Spectator", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as... | Harriet Martineau | [n/a] | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Gre... | Harriet Martineau | Frances Edgeworth ? | [possibly] A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, with a Selection from her Letters by the late Mrs Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Gre... | Harriet Martineau | Henry, Earl Grey | The reform act, 1832; the correspondence of the late Earl Grey with His Majesty King William IV. and with Sir Herbert Taylor, from Nov. 1830 to June 1832 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Lost Tales of Miletus, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was simultaneously complemented and embarrassed by Pope's tribute in "Epistle to Mr Gay". S... | Mary Wortley Montagu | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Mr Gay | Unknown |
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1800-1849 | 'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irrit... | Anna Seward | Mary Wortley Montagu | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the div... | Catherine Talbot | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'An example of vivid, if not particularly fair, criticism occurs in a letter from Lady Hertford to the countess of Pom... | Lady Hertford | Alexander Pope | [volume of poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be w... | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attri... | Mary Lepel Hervey | Alexander Pope | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary] Jones particularly admired Pope's letters. In August 1735, not long after the publication of "Letters of Mr Po... | Mary Jones | Alexander Pope | Letters of Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Mark Akenside | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Erasmus Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Thomas Gray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Satires | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | [Ethic Epistles] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "po... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Eras... | Horace Walpole | Erasmus Darwin | The Botanic Garden (part 1) | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I hav... | Mary Berry | Erasmus Darwin | The Botanic Garden (first thirty lines) | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote... | Horace Walpole | Hannah More | [verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | In letter to Mary Berry and family of July 10 1790, Horace Walpole transcribes two passages from the Times of 8 July, ... | Horace Walpole | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I have most seriously been house-hunting for you. I saw two bills on doo... | Horace Walpole | anon | bills advertising houses for sale/to let | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I do hope you will be staggered about a longer journey [in Italy] for som... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper report on political developments in Italy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Mo... | Mr Lysons | John le Neve | Monumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments of Eminent Persons deceased from 1700 to 1715 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 16 October 1790, on concerns for her and her family's safety on return from travels in E... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper report of shipwreck | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cous... | Horace Walpole | Matthew Prior | The Turtle and the Sparrow: A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cous... | Horace Walpole | Matthew Prior | Apollo and Daphne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 31 October 1790: 'Burke's pamphlet is to appear tomorrow, and Calonne has published a th... | Horace Walpole | Calonne | Lettre sur l'Etat de la France, present et a venir | |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to b... | Horace Walpole | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 11 March 1791: 'I saw in today's newspaper, that the wife of the Margrave of Anspach is ... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper report of death of wife of Margrave of Anspach | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast ... | Horace Walpole | unknown | reminiscences | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 20 July 1791: 'I inclose the best printed account, I have seen, of the riots at Birmingh... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper reports of Birmingham riots | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent t... | Horace Walpole | anon | 'Attitudes -- A Sketch' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a v... | Mary Berry | Virgil | Works | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a v... | Mary Berry | Horace | Works | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a v... | Mary Berry | Francesco Petrarch | annotations to manuscript copy of works of Horace | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Damer, travelling in France, to Mary Berry, 24 April 1791, on encounter with de Broc, the mayor of Bayonne, 'the ... | Anne Damer | de Broc | A L'Orateur Fox | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | Complete History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Ossian (pseud.) | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day;... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain Boothby | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole pa... | | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Vittorio Alfieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Robert Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Maria Edgeworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable n... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Locke | Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Jean Charles de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Watson | [book on Philip of Spain] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Coxe | History of the House of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Coxe | Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Rene Aubert de Vertot | [book(s) on Revolutions] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Southey | Roderick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angri... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | John Dryden | Don Sebastian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown Darwin | [article on 'Diseased Volition'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently ... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote An... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare Thee Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [a Satire - on Annabella?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chi... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years ea... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Macdonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | [anon.] | Thousand Nights and One Night, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | Lewis Carroll (pseud.) | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | Lewis Carroll (pseud.) | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | Walter Scott | [Waverley novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | Frederick Marryat | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | William Harrison Ainsworth | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 15 October 1793: 'I called on the Princesse d'Hennin, who has been in town a week [...] ... | Horace Walpole | ?Duchesse ?de Bouillon | Letters on developments in Revolutionary France | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 14 November 1793: 'I was grieved this morning to read in the papers that poor Jardin and... | Horace Walpole | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at th... | Horace Walpole | Edward Jerningham | Prologue to The Siege of Berwick | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 21 April 1794: 'I have found on my table a rhapsody in verse on my recovery, so extravag... | Horace Walpole | anon | poem on recovery of Horace Walpole [apparently from illness] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 24 September 1794, 'near one [pm]': 'The Churchills are here in the room while I write [... | Horace Walpole and Mr Churchill | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 September 1794: 'I was diverted a few days ago by a paragraph in the "True Briton", w... | Horace Walpole | | The True Briton | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Horace Walpole, 28 September 1794, regarding remark in the newspapers that the move of the Prince of Wal... | Mary Berry | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sansc... | Horace Walpole | [probably] James Murphy | [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sansc... | Mary Berry | [probably] James Murphy | [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent ... | Harriet Martineau | | The Globe (Newspaper) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 November 1795, 'half after noon': 'Mr. Coxe, whom I could not dismiss, has sat readin... | Mr Coxe | | Life of Robert Walpole | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [..... | Mary Berry | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in prin... | Harriet Martineau | | The Monthly Repository | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 4 November 1811: 'In the evening Mrs. Damer and I read Alfieri in Italian -- but what Italian! s... | Mary Berry and Anne Damer | Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 26 February 1812: 'The morning at Devonshire House, where I found the Duke in his library with th... | The Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Douglas, and George Neville | unknown | books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."' | Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales | Madame de Cottin | Amelie de Mansfeldt | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wal... | Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales | Madame de Cottin | Amelie de Mansfeldt | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 15 June 1812: 'Called by appointment on Sir G. Beaumont to meet [George] Colman [manager of Hayma... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | The Two Martius | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay... | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Campbell | First discourse upon Poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 October 1812: 'Read the newspapers, which contained the extraordinary letter of Lord Cathcart a... | Mary Berry | Lord Cathcart | account of Battle of Borodino | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 19 January 1813, accompanying his ode on the burning of Moscow by French forces: 'I sent ... | | Uvedale Price | Draft ode on French retreat from Moscow | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read all evening' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the greek grammar' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and work in the evening' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the morning and work' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the Greek grammar' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little in the Greek grammar' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of St Leon' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | William Godwin | St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Work and read in the evening' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Petronius | Satyricon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Louvet's memoirs all day' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Louvet's memoirs' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and read' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's "Lives"'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Adolphus | Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles Brockden Brown | Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Maximes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | anon. | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Jean anon. | [tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Voltaire (pseud.) | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Stendhal (pseud.) | Le Rouge et le Noir | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Stendhal (pseud.) | La Chartreuse de Parme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Anatole France (pseud.) | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Pierre Loti (pseud.) | [exotic tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Guy de Maupassant | [tales: short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'. | Somerset Maugham | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg' | Somerset Maugham | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | John Henry, Cardinal Newman | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Walter Pater | Imaginary Portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Algernon Charles Swinburne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring... | Mary Godwin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary, A Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley... brings home Wordsworth's Excursion of which we read a part - much disapointed - He is a slave'. | Mary Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary receives her first lesson in greek - She reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock'. | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Curse of Kehama, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek and Rassalas in the evening Hookham calls - M. reads the Sorcerer'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Political Justice & the empire of the Nairs'. | Mary Godwin | James Henry Lawrence | Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Alexy Haimatoff - study a little greek - read Political Justice'. | Mary Godwin | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813, discussing the importance of association and the physical senses in aest... | Uvedale Price | Fitzpatrick | [metaphysical] poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We walk out - when we return Shelley talks with Jane and I read Wrongs of woman'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Mary Berry,18 December 1813: 'Upon reading a few days ago in the papers an account of the Queen of Na... | Uvedale Price | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own dau... | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Campbell | discourse on English poetry and poets | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. list... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Cicero | Cato Maior de Senectute | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. list... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Cicero | Paradoxa Stoicorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. list... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Julius (Or Lucus Annaeus) Florus | [possibly] Epitome bellorum omnium annorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua... | Sir Uvedale Price | Germaine de Stael | L'Allemagne (vol.3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua... | | Germaine de Stael | L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua... | Sir Uvedale Price | Germaine de Stael | L'Allemagne (vols 1-3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is ... | Mary Godwin | William Godwin | Essay on Sepulchres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Go to the tomb and read the essay on sepulchres there - Shelley is out all the morning at the Lawyers but nothing is ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | [shorter tales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon.J. W. Ward to Mary Berry, 11 May 1814: 'I have bought Mr Schlegel's book about the drama, which they have tran... | The Hon. J. W. Ward | Schlegel | work on drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me at three o'clock. She made Lady Charlotte read... | Lady Charlotte | Queen of England | Letters to the Princess of Wales | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me at three o'clock. She made Lady Charlotte read... | Lady Charlotte | Princess of Wales | Letters to the Queen of England | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 5 July 1814: 'The Princess [of Wales] sent for me to read a letter that she had sent to the Speak... | Mary Berry | Princess of Wales | Letter to the Speaker [?Parliamentary] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his ma... | James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read "Swift's Life" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott. It does ... | Mary Berry | ?Walter ?Scott | Life of Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 22 June 1815: 'All the details that one hears of the victory of the 18th [June, at Waterloo] show... | Mary Berry | | Gazette | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 26 July 1815: 'I only went out for a short time to read the papers, in which is Captain Maitland'... | Mary Berry | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of ... | Mr Wishaw | Mary Berry | Draft Life of Lady Russell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of ... | Mr Wishaw | | List of MSS of Horner | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of ... | Mr Wishaw | George Gordon, Lord Byron | journal of travels in Switzerland (extracts) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 March 1818: 'I went with the Comte Bardi to the Laurentian Library. Saw the travels (MSS.) of... | Mary Berry | Magalotti | Travels of Cosmo III in England | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 July 1818: 'Went with Lord Hardwick to see the MSS. which have been offered for sale to Sir Ch... | Mary Berry and Lord Hardwicke | unknown | MS papers relating to Peace of Utrecht | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 12 December 1818: 'I worked all the morning; before dinner I read in my own room to Lady Hardwick... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | Memoir of Lady Russell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment... | Mary Berry | Mary Berry | Memoir of Lady Russell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment... | Sir James Mackintosh | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your "Life of Lady Russell," as far as my acquaintance extends, gives gen... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | Life of Lady Russell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Wishaw' to Mary Berry, 14 July 1819: 'On returning from the country I find your kind and acceptable present [Berry... | Mr Wishaw | Mary Berry | Life of Lady Russell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in ... | The Hon. James Abercrombie | Coxe | Life of Marlborough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who rea... | Mary Berry | Martial | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who rea... | Mary Berry | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who rea... | Mary Berry | Suetonius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, in letter of August 1820: 'I have been reading after dinner, when it is too hot to write, "Anastatius." I... | Mary Berry | ?Anastatius | work on travels in East | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, October 23 1821: 'Went on a visit to Sir John and Lady Oswald. Sir John had given me a collectio... | Mary Berry | Oswald | Letters to ministers and 'distinguished persons', 1742-67 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago an... | Sarah Siddons | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. wh... | Mary Berry | Hon Mrs C. Scott | MS | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 5 November 1823, from Guy's Cliff: 'In the evening, Greathead read a portion of Irving's "Dscours... | Mr Greathead | Irving | Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 23 September 1824, from Edinburgh: 'Went with Mr. and Mrs. Davenport to [...] the Advocate's Libr... | Mary Berry | unknown | MS letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comp... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | Introduction to The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Charlotte Lindsay to Mary Berry, 25 April 1828, on vol.1 of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France an... | Lady Charlotte Lindsay | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost no... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Elements of Morality, for the use of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'. | Mary Godwin | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and En... | Professor W. Smythe | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man' | Mary Godwin | Lazare N.M. Carnot | Memoir adresse au Roi en juillet 1814 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in the greek grammar'. | Mary Godwin | unknown | [greek grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'. | Mary Godwin | Petronius | Satyricon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charles Poulett Thomson to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'I return you your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life... | Charles Poulett Thomson | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'. | Mary Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai | M?moires de Louvet de Couvrai | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative Vie... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 2) | Print: In proof |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's lives'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Adolphus | Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles Brockden-Brown | Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to 'Mrs Somerville', from Bellevue, September 1834: 'I have just finished reading your book [apparently on ... | Mary Berry | Mrs Somerville | [work on astronomy] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Let... | Mary Berry | Victor Jaquemont | Letters describing a journey in India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Earl Granville, Monday 18 November 1834, on recent dissolution of Government: 'On Saturday, Lady Lansdow... | Lady Lansdowne | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to 'a friend at Paris,' October, 1835: 'I have read with much attention the "notice" on the life of M. Gout... | Mary Berry | unknown | Notice on life of M. Gouthier | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry , Journal, 18 September 1836: 'I have been unequal this day to anything but reading my Bible for amusement;... | Mary Berry | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry on the Life and writings (including memoirs) of the Princess Dashkoff, published 1840: 'The whole work -- o... | Mary Berry | Princess Dashkoff | Life and Writings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.' | Rev. Sydney Smith | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to a friend, [1841]: 'I have read every word of Mazzini, and agree entirely with him in his views of what c... | Mary Berry | Mazzini | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the St... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | unknown | Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections | Print: Book, catalogue |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable le... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | Mary Berry | Letter to Lord Francis Jeffrey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | Thomas Babington Macaulay | article on Frederick of Prussia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune k... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | | Church appointment notice | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Joanna Baillie, 24 October 1844: 'I have been reading "Mrs. Grant's Letters" with considerable amusement... | Mary Berry | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Theresa Lewis reproduces letter from Mary Berry to 'Mr. Everett' of Harvard College, of 25 August 1846, in which ... | Mary Berry | Mr Everett | Inaugural discourse given at Harvard College | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [it... | Mary Berry | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was ... | Gabriel Harvey | Geoffrey Chaucer | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | | Roman texts | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Sturm | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Manutius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Osorius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Sigonius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Buchanan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | Works including On Friendship | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Osorius | Works including On Glory | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Sambucus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Ramus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Varro | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Sallust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Pliny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Columella | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's siste... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | anon | Howleglas | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | Skoggin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | John Skelton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How... | Gabriel Harvey | Lazarillo | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and u... | Gabriel Harvey | | Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Palm Sunday
Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.' | John Cole | Richard Mant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dr Sandford's lecture on Good Friday.' | John Cole | Dr Sanford | lecture on Good Friday | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Butcher's Sermon "He is risen" &&'. | John Cole | Butcher | Sermon 'He is risen' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Inspected Mr Dash's large collection of books.' | John Cole | | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening - suitable readings'. | John Cole | unknown | ['suitable readings'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discove... | John Cole | unknown | [Inscription over entrance gate] | Print: Incription on gate |
| 1800-1849 | 'Letters were at home awaiting me, intimating that John was about to leave Leamington.' | John Cole Jr | John Cole | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1500-1599 | In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | Topica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's "Topica", of the German philologist Hegendorff's wr... | Gabriel Harvey | Hegendorff | Writings on law | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.' | John Cole | Evans | Tourist | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of ... | John Cole | Evans | Tourist | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.' | Gabriel Harvey | S. Stefano Guazzo | Civil Conversation | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired... | Gabriel Harvey | Baldassare Castiglione | The Book of the Courtier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening a change came on, a slight thunderstorm, during which a beautiful rain-bow appeared, when we read Dr B... | John Cole | Belfrage | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rheto... | Gabriel Harvey | Aristotle | Organon | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rheto... | Gabriel Harvey | Aristotle | Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you Tom Davis's Life of David Garrick? I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, and should like to peruse ... | | Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | 'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close assoc... | Gabriel Harvey | Audomarus Talaeus | Academia | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After the service we inspected the monument of Thomas Robinson... The Saviour appearing in the clouds with an open bo... | John Cole | | [Scripture] | Print: Monument of Thomas Robinson, St Mary's Church, Leicester (Sculptor, Bacon) |
| 1800-1849 | 'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer... | John Cole | Clarke | Lake of Tiberias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer... | John Cole | King | Hymns | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | 'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | Italian grammars | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | Spanish grammars | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and... | Gabriel Harvey | unknown | French grammars | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | 'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"]... | Gabriel Harvey | Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton | A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on ... | Gabriel Harvey | Jacob Hugkel | Semeiotice | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broads... | Gabriel Harvey | anon | Broadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmaceuticals) of John Hester | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus]... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.' | Gabriel Harvey | Livy | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe... | Gabriel Harvey | Frontinus | The stratagemes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe... | Gabriel Harvey | Frontinus | The stratagemes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe... | Gabriel Harvey | Frontinus | The stratagemes | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567... | Gabriel Harvey | Thomas Wilson | The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | '[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summariz... | Gabriel Harvey | Thomas Blundevill | The foure chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, ar... | Gabriel Harvey | A. P. Gasser | Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of ... | Gabriel Harvey | George North | Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and... | Gabriel Harvey | Lodovico Domenichi | Facetie, motti, et burle | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with ... | Gabriel Harvey | John Hart | An Orthographie | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual ... | Gabriel Harvey | Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | 'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes an... | Gabriel Harvey | Sacchi de Platina | Hystoria de Vitis pontificum | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | 'In [Gabriel Harvey's copy of] G. Breule's "Praxis Medicinae Theorica" (1585) on the front flyleaf is a manuscript ind... | Gabriel Harvey | G. Breule | Praxis Medicinae Theorica | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582). | Gabriel Harvey | Joannis Foorth | Synopsis Politica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Fi... | Gabriel Harvey | John Florio | Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi ("First Decade") | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | 'Although he read Rabelais and several other French authors in the original, it is unlikely that [Gabriel] Harvey's ma... | Gabriel Harvey | Francois Rabelais | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and R... | Gabriel Harvey | Antonio de Corro | Spanish Grammer | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and R... | Gabriel Harvey | Richard Perceval | Bibliotheca Hispanica | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribe... | Gabriel Harvey | John Astley | The Art of Riding | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Arte of Warre | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive... | Gabriel Harvey | Peter Whitehorne | Certain wayes for the ordering of Soldiours | Print: Book |
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1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Vegetius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Sutcliff | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Heinrich Rantzau | Commentarius Bellicus ... praecepta, consilia et stratagemata | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Marco Antonio Gandino | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Carlo Theti | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Digges Stratioticos | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Sir Roger Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152... | Gabriel Harvey | Joannis de Sacrobosco | Textus de Sphaera | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152... | Gabriel Harvey | Bonetus de Lates | Annuli ... super astrologiam | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152... | Gabriel Harvey | Euclid | First book of geometry | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence"... | Gabriel Harvey | John Blagrave | The Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called ... The use of which Jewel ... leadeth ... through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes ... | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of ci... | Gabriel Harvey | Luca Gaurico | Tractatus Astrologicus | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Eunapius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Tacitus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Philostratus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Julian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Theodore Zwinger | Theatrum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Theocritus | "Idyll I" | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Bion | epitaphs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Adonis | epitaphs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Hesiod | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi... | Gabriel Harvey | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | ''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di divers... | Gabriel Harvey | Solomon | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and... | Gabriel Harvey | Barnabe Barnes | Parthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals, elegies and odes. | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium ... | Gabriel Harvey | Joannes Boccatius | Compendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintum, & jam primum in lucem editum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 15... | Gabriel Harvey | William Bourne | A Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five severall passages to Cattay | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes 'Many underlinings and MS. notes' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of George Buchanan, "Ane admonition... | Gabriel Harvey | George Buchanan | Ane admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B. ... accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert Lekpreuik | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February]... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February]... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | M. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem Vindocinum | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided ... | Gabriel Harvey | Cicero | M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "The Telegraph" in Evans.' | John Cole | Evans | The Telegraph | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a letter of interest from G Danes Esq.' | John Cole | G Danes | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Annals of my village" - the month.' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips' Personal tour.' | John Cole | Sir R Phillips | Personal Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the... | John Cole | anon | Wonders of the human body | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the... | John Cole | Pulley | Etymological compendium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Natural History of Rabbit. On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my frie... | John Cole | Rhind | Natural history of the Rabbit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston]. | John Cole | James [?] Edmeston | The penny magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different c... | John Cole | Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued "Wonders of the human body" and began again Watson's "Intimations and evidences of a future state. Studied ... | John Cole | Watson | Intimations and evidences of a future state | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr. Walcot went into the shop of Mr Wright, where Mr. Giffard was seated reading a newspaper; he asked him if his nam... | Mr Giffard | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The boy was reading a play bill, when the prisoner went up to him and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.' | | [n/a] | [playbill] | Print: Advertisement, Poster, playbill |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | | Latin grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | Cicero | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shaksper... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository [...] a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, w... | Martineau family | Thomas Noon Talfourd | "On the System of Malthus" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [..... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Books on logic] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [..... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Books on rhetoric] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [..... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [History books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Mr Perry | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Mr Perry | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his professi... | Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) | unknown | [Italian prose texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his professi... | Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin) | unknown | [Italian poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his professi... | Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and "C" family | Petrarch | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightil... | Harriet Martineau | Hugh Blair | Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily r... | Harriet Martineau | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily r... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Carpenter | Notes and Observations on the Gospel History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily r... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Kenrick | Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's... | Harriet Martineau | David Hartley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'I surrendered myself [...] to the charm of Dugald Stew... | Harriet Martineau | Dugald Stewart | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea ... | | Harriet Martineau | article on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to... | | Harriet Martineau | Devotional Exercises | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud f... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud f... | | unknown | [Classical texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Houlston [Harriet Martineau's publisher] wrote to ask for another story of somewhat more substance and bulk [than the... | Harriet Martineau | | The Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on one of her early publications: 'A most excellent young servant of ours [...] went out to Madeira ... | Martineau family servant, and husband | Harriet Martineau | My Servant Rachel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's "Conversat... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau mentions using 'Sale's Koran', borrowed from a public library, in preparation for entering a Central... | Harriet Martineau | | The Koran | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on German studies continued during stay in Kent: 'There I refreshed myself among pretty scenery, fre... | Harriet Martineau | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never re... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Texts on American geography and politics] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | Lichtenstein | "South Africa" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | Edwards | "West Indies" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | McCulloch | "Highlands and Islands of Scotland" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing "Weal and Woe in Gar... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | "Weal and Woe in Garveloch" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing ... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Article attacking Harriet Martineau] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon | Harriet Martineau | volume containing "Garveloch" stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon woman and husband | Harriet Martineau | Series of Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtaine... | Harriet Martineau | | [Blue-book on Ireland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtaine... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Blue-book on "Colonization"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads aloud out of the "Female Revolutionary Plutarch"'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Stewarton | Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'. | Mary Godwin | Stewarton | Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read "P. Proteus" in the even'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Christopher Wieland | Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she reads the Italian'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man; being an answer to Burke's attack on the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'. | Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont | Ann Radcliffe | Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Italian & talk all day'. | Mary Godwin | Ann Radcliffe | Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fairie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'. | Mary Godwin | Charles Brockden Brown | Philip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of Love | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Louis-Marie Prudhomme | [unknown, possibly one of his French revolutionary works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Moore | A Journal during a residence in France from August to December 1792 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'. | Mary Godwin | Joanna Baillie | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Agathon part of which I like but it [is] not so good as Peregrine'. | Mary Godwin | Christopher Martin Wirland | Geschichte des Agathon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter ... | Mary Godwin | Christopher Martin Wirland | Geschichte des Agathon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Mungo Parks travels loud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Drummond'. | Mary Godwin | William Drummond | Academical Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Pennants view of Hindostan'. | Mary Godwin | Thomas Pennant | Outlines of the Globe (Vol I. The View of Hindostan) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.' | Mary Godwin | Lord Macartney | Journal of an Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finish Mungo Parks travels - they are very interesting & if the man was not so prejudiced they would be a th... | Mary Godwin | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walk out with Shelley. he reads Suetonius all day'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Suetonius | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'. | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Charles Rollin | The ancient history of the Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | James Hervey | Meditations and contemplations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | William Sherlock | Meditations and A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic ... | John Cole | [n/a] | [notice] | Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window |
| 1800-1849 | 'Called one morning on the Rev S Hilliard & saw Bunyan's "Pitcher" and several pages of his writings in some documents... | John Cole | John Bunyan | [Pitcher and writings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Sir Richard Phillips | Personal Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Anon | Curios of natural history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Hugh Blair | A sermon on the death of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some descriptions of West Indies.' | John Cole | [unknown] | [descriptions of the West Indies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.' | John Cole | E Butcher | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.' | John Cole | [Anon] | [suitable readings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".' | John Cole | [unknown] | [Account of the Tailor Bird] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had becom... | J. J. Gurney | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had becom... | Family of Elizabeth Fry | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour".' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his e... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thoug... | Harriet Martineau | Sir William Temple | [work on Holland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents o... | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | Maria Graham | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | Heber | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | | Columbo almanack | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixotte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In "Briery Creek," I [Harriet Martineau] indulged my life-long sentiment of admiration and love fo Dr. Priestley, by ... | Lady Durham | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Garcilaso de la Vega | History of the Incas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] sent the first copy I could get [of her two "Excise" stories, "The Jerseymen Meeting" and "The... | Harriet Martineau | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Feyjoo | Theatro critico universale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since reading "Cousin Marshall" and others of my Numbers, [Lord Henley] had dropped his subscriptions to some hurtful... | Lord Henley | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Juan de Mariana | History of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | John Robinson | Illuminati | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, recalling acquaintances of her youth: 'Mr. Hallam one day called, when, as it was the first day of ... | Mr Hallam | | The Monthly Repository | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you... | Elizabeth Smith | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Tuscular Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdl... | Elizabeth Smith | Edward Hyde Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.' | Elizabeth Martineau | anon | "ribald" song about Harriet Martineau | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the pa... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Gisbourne | An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[The eldest Hallam daughter] died [...] while her mother was reading to her. She exclaimed "Stop!" and was dead with... | | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solit... | Harriet Martineau | R. Monckton Milnes | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Miss Berry [...] told me [Harriet Martineau] how she found on her table, on her return from a ball, a volume of plays... | Mary Berry | Joanna Baillie | Plays on the Passions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] saw much of Fanny [Kemble] in America [...] She showed me the proof-sheets of her clever "Journ... | Harriet Martineau | Fanny Kemble | Journal | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read t... | Mrs Marsh | Mrs Marsh | The Admiral's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published. I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marsh | Two Old Men's Tales (including The Admiral's Daughter) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Harriet Martineau | Tales | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Wiliam Godwin] told me [Harriet Martineau] [...] that he wrote the first half of "Caleb William" in three months, an... | Harriet Martineau | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Par... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" ... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I h... | Harriet Martineau | Miss Kelty | The Favourite of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I h... | Harriet Martineau | Miss Kelty | Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A neighbour lent me [Miss Bremer's] novel, "Brothers and Sisters," the first volume of which we thought admirable: bu... | Harriet Martineau and neighbour | Frederika Bremer | Brothers and Sisters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Conyeds Middleton | History of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Tobias George Smolett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Ossian | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | travel writing | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Homer | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending a... | Amelia Opie | Amelia Opie | Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to th... | Elizabeth Smith | Ossian | hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending a... | Elizabeth Martineau and daughter | Amelia Opie | Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [various English poets] | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Secker | Lectures on Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793
'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since... | Elizabeth Smith | [unknown] | Den golden spiegel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793
'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since... | Elizabeth Smith | Wiessen | Lyrische Gedischte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Kliest | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hallen | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Zimmerman | Einsamkert | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hunt | Essay on the happiness of the life to come | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) w... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Article on St. Domingo] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) w... | Harriet Martineau | | Biographie Universelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a... | anon | Harriet Martineau | work on Toussaint L'Ouverture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on inspiration for an ultimately abandoned novel: 'There was a police report, during that winter [?... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Police report] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) t... | Princess Victoria | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Ella of Garveloch" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'On reaching the gallery, I found that a back seat wa... | Harriet Martineau and two other females | | [Order of coronation service] | |
| 1800-1849 | From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of ... | Harriet Martineau | | Order of Queen Victoria's coronation service | |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas De Quincey | [article] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | Sir Thomas Dick Lauder | Floods in Morayshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | | Penny Cyclopedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect of Western Travel | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and s... | Harriet Martineau | Laing | [work on Norway] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and s... | Harriet Martineau | Inglis | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the histo... | Harriet Martineau | Heeren | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the histo... | Harriet Martineau | Warburton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,... | anon | Harriet Martineau | articles on Household Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (writing as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, 7 November 1849: 'When C.B. first read "Deerbrook" he ... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I [Harriet Martineau] read ["Jane Eyre"], I was convinced that it was by some friend of my own, who had portions... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Hous... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau | Household Education | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] wrote a letter [...] to an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, who was earnest in his endeavours t... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Letter to Assistant poor-law Commissioner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'When "Currer" [Charlotte Bronte] and I [Harriet Martineau] came home, there were proof-sheets [of Martineau's corresp... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Atkinson | Letter on "distribution of the brain" | Print: In proof |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Harriet Martineau, on Martineau's published correspondence with Atkinson: 'Having read your book, ... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau and H.G. Atkinson | Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | G.H. Lewes | Chapter on Auguste Comte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | Littre | "epitome" (relating to Auguste Comte) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse... | anon | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my T... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. Titmarsh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Esmond" appears to me [Harriet Martineau] [italics]the [end italics] book of the century, in its department. I have... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'While at Cromer [...] I read "Pendennis" with such intense enjoyment [...] that the notion of trying my hand once mor... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In "Memorials of Harriet Martineau", Maria Weston Chapman gives extract from letter from a schoolmate of Martineau's, ... | Harriet Martineau and friend | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end... | Maria Weston Chapman | Harriet Martineau | Mary and her Grandmother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | "scraps of antique English" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'. | Lord Durham | Harriet Martineau | article | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family ... | Harriet Martineau | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soo... | Harriet Martineau | | hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Prefa... | Harriet Martineau | Norton | Work "in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Prefa... | Harriet Martineau | Palfrey | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Prefa... | Harriet Martineau | | [Institutional reports] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burn... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Article on Burns | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, s... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Gibbon | correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.' | Harriet Martineau | | Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]' | Harriet Martineau | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." ... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters. What an exquisite specimen is that man of... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Lamb | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics] Read [...] to my mother [...] my Sedgwic... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | article on Sedgwick | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.' | Harriet Martineau | | Anti-slavery documents | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's "Pensees". They sh... | Harriet Martineau | Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 October 1837: 'I read Felkin's excellent report on the working-classes of Nottingham, sh... | Harriet Martineau | Felkin | Report on working classes of Nottingham | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."' | Harriet Martineau | Channing | Texas | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American' | Harriet Martineau | Beaumont | Marie | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of "Archy Moore." A terrible story, which stirred m... | Harriet Martineau | Richard Hildreth | Archy Moore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 23 October 1837: 'I read Whateley's review of Miss Austen. Good, but not particularly str... | Harriet Martineau | Whateley | Review of Jane Austen | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration. Though fanciful, it has much truth and be... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | oration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no jud... | Harriet Martineau | Lord Brougham | speech on education | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 5 December 1837: 'Read the newspaper aloud.' | Harriet Martineau | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.' | Harriet Martineau | Hall | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on Br... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | article on British [?Monarchism] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Morning, read one of my own stories, -- "Loom and Lugger." Was quite d... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Loom and Lugger | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how com... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 20 December 1837: '[italics]Afternoon[end italics] Read in the Pictorial Bible, which is t... | Harriet Martineau | | Pictorial Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 28 December 1837: 'Read Defoe's "Plague." Was somewhat disappointed [...] The best part i... | Harriet Martineau | Daniel Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, [?6] January 1838: 'Read, in Blackwood, article on Mademoiselle Gautier, a devotee, -- muc... | Harriet Martineau | | article on "Mademoiselle Gautier" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 January 1838: 'Read Life of Scott, Vol. VI. It is far more interesting than the former... | Harriet Martineau | ? J. G. ?Lockhart | Life of Scott (vol. 6) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read "Pride and Prejudice" again last night. I think it as clever as be... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finish... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finish... | Harriet Martineau | | (Book of) Judges | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; thoug... | Harriet Martineau | Moliere | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 January 1838: 'Read "Northanger Abbey." Capital: found two touches of pathos.' | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read... | Harriet Martineau | Channing | Texas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Article on cemeteries | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 15 January 1838: 'Probably the greatest day of my year. While I was reading one article in... | Harriet Martineau | | Article on Grecian philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 January 1838: 'Wrote notes and letters, and then sat down to read Smedley. What a tale ... | Harriet Martineau | | [Work on/by Smedley] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 January 1838: 'Read much of "Emma" this evening'. | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 February 1838: '[At Captain Beaufort's] Met [...] C. Darwin, Mr. F. Edgeworth, and Mr. H... | | Harriet Martineau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 February 1838: 'Read beautiful speeches at the Lovejoy meeting in Boston, in the "Liber... | Harriet Martineau | | Speeches to Boston meeting (anti-slavery?) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 30 June 1838: 'Read the Gospel of John in Porteusian Bible.' | Harriet Martineau | | Gospel of John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 26 August 1838: 'Very happy in reading American newspapers.' | Harriet Martineau | | American newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.' | Sir Arthur Helps | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Derbyshire Patriot | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p... | Mr Hollingsworth | [n/a] | The Derbyshire Patriot | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p... | Mr Dobb | [n/a] | The Derbyshire Patriot | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p... | Mr Ward | [n/a] | The Derbyshire Patriot | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to West... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | Bells Weekly Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts "Improvement ... | Joseph Jenkinson | Ebeneezer Elliot | Corn Law Rhymes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of "Colton's Work" with which I was very well satisfie... | Joseph Jenkinson | Calvin Colton | Manual for Emigrants to America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliame... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliame... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Parliamentary Review | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (heal... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | [advertisement / poster for next week's preacher] | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wr... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "M... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of "Watts Logic... | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of "Watts Logic" smok... | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of "Watts Logic". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring wi... | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking ref... | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of "Watts".' | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.' | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stat... | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to b... | Joseph Jenkinson | Isaac Watts | Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very jus... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Noticed at dinner time the improper conduct of Mr Slyfield he having taken the paper and not reading aloud. I kindly ... | Mr Slyfield | [n/a] | [The Morning Chronicle?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The account of the money market rather more favourable.' | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | [The Morning Chronicle?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.' | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | [The Morning Chronicle?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the paper and smoked a pipe.' | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | [The Morning Chronicle?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'. | Joseph Jenkinson | Patrick Murphy | The Weather Almanack, 1838-39 | Print: Book, almanac |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' "Comedy of Notoriety"; I think it is fully equal to... | Joseph Hunter | Frederick Reynolds | Notoriety: A Comedy [Five Acts in Prose] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Encyclopedia Britanica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not ple... | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Gleanings in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controv... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscripti... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | [The Sheffield Iris] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very ca... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the "Iris"] ...all this I had read before ... in the "Sup. ... | Joseph Hunter | George Gregory | The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchest... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin ... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | A Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin ... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | Evenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy o... | Joseph Hunter | John Aikin | A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'. | John Jones | [n/a] | [Greek or Great?] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'. | Anthony Hammond | Samuel Rosewell | The Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High Treason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, th... | Francis Cain | John Dawson | John Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40. | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown,... | Frances Burney | Rev. George Butt | Timoleon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | 'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about... | Sarah Churchill | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all. Made a cap, therefore.' | Harriet Martineau | Leigh Hunt (ed) | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. C... | Harriet Martineau | Wilberforce | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. C... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Crowther | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writ... | Harriet Martineau | Thom | account of "Oxford Movement" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writ... | Harriet Martineau | William Wilberforce | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man... | Francis Jeffrey | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease, 27 February 1841: 'I have read the statements in "Right and Wrong among the Abol... | Harriet Martineau | | Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the United States | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's "In Memoriam": 'Like most o... | Harriet Martineau | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam A. H. H. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end it... | Harriet Martineau | Alfred Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article ... | Harriet Martineau | Louisa May Alcott | Transcendental Wild Oats (article) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the ... | Harriet Martineau | Lucas | Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal ... | Harriet Martineau | John Forster | The Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much w... | Harriet Martineau | Curtis | Eulogy on Charles Sumner | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I a... | Harriet Martineau | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | W. Matthews, father of Harriet Martineau's maid Marianne Matthews, to Martineau's sister Susan: 'A short time before t... | W. Matthews | | Local newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historic... | Florence Nightingale | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to ... | Elizabeth B. Ker | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sickroom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilat... | Horace Walpole | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilat... | Horace Walpole | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [old-fashioned theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [early Methodist magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [cookery books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [tales of murder and robbery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Ontranto | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | Sir Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | Adam's First Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | Bring flowers | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | The season of death | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Sir Richard Steele's Dedication of his Account of the state of the Roman Catholic Religion to the Pope'. | Dudley Ryder | Richard Steele | An Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've don... | [M35B] Anon | unknown | unknown ["solid reading"] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mot... | family of Hannah Mitchell | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant ... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown-probably various contributors] | [poems in newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbo... | Hannah Mitchell | Mary Humphrey Ward | The History of David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names a... | Joseph Banks | John Gerard | The Herball or General Historie of Plants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who ha... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Amboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that S... | Joseph Banks | George Shelvocke | A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making... | Joseph Banks | Charles De Brosses | Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our pala... | Joseph Banks | [uknown-ship's cook?] | [recipe] | Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe. |
| 1700-1799 | 'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to bec... | Joseph Banks | Hulme | [book with medical directions] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ... | Joseph Banks | Patrick Browne | The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Amboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) ... | Joseph Banks | Charles de Brosse | Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, ... | Joseph Banks | Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville | A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade & navigation ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dal... | Joseph Banks | Alexander Dalrymple | An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the clot... | Joseph Banks | Abel Jansen Tasman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo"... | Joseph Banks | Amedee Francois Frezier | Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | Mrs. Henry Wood | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | Sir Walter Scott | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.' | Hannah Mitchell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in... | Hannah Mitchell | Robert Blatchford | Nunquam | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist we... | Hannah Mitchell | [n/a] | The Clarion | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 |
'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books sh... | Hannah Mitchell | Emmeline Pankhurst | My Own Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show... | Hannah Mitchell | Helena Swanwick | I have been Young | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"... | Hannah Mitchell | Joseph Macabe | The Religion of Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"... | Hannah Mitchell | Joseph Macabe | Women in Political Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." T... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | "Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two m... | Harriet Martineau | James Edward Austen-Leigh | A Memoir of Jane Austen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Hemans | The voice of spring | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Gordon, Lord Byron | When coldness wraps this suffering clay | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on an Idiot | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday, Feb 4 (1940)
'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm getting on in age, I want light reading. You understand that, don't you? I don't want heavy reading. I don't want... | | unknown | [light readings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of ... | | [unknown] | [life of Joan of Arc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it's written snappy, you see. . . . Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, T... | | J G Brandon | Death in Downing Street | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Thomas] [Moore] | [The Blue Stocking] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron] | [Don Juan - Canto the Third] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Beresford | [On vaccination] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Montgomery | Night | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingi... | Joseph Jenkinson | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct ... | Tom | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'. | John Jones | Eusebius | De Praeparatio Evangelica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Mor... | Charles Darwin | William Paley | A View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Mor... | Charles Darwin | William Paley | Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insis... | John Kidd | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arriv... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Advert. S. side of Euston Road reading "Morris Commercial Vehicles-a Body for every Trade" heavily draped with decora... | | [n/a] | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up ... | | [n/a] | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... | | [unknown] | [crime novel] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... | | [unknown] | Pitman's book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chai... | | [unknown] | [pamphlet] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Very few people appeared to be out, in fact it seemed like Sunday in the High Road, I called in a snack bar, ordered ... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wire... | | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After that I read Voltaire's "Candide", and at 12 o'clock adjourned for a pint to the local pub. Switched on the wire... | | Pat Sloan | Soviet Democracy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After tea I completed my notes on this subject and then finished a book I was reading, "The Evolution of Love", by Em... | | Emil Lucka | Evolution of love, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description o... | | Ethel Mannin | Green Willow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy... | | [unknown] | A Guide to philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Suddenly, he gave a sort of cry, and read out the opening sentences from the "Times" announcing a battle in the valle... | Philip Gosse | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of c... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [sensational novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'. | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a bo... | Edmund Gosse | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a b... | Edmund Gosse | Benjamin Wills Newton | Thoughts on the Apocalypse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream... | Edmund Gosse | James Hyslop | The Cameronian's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, ... | Edmund Gosse | Andrew John Jukes | The law of the offerings in Leviticus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...' | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [Translation of an Arabic Ode] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though s... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is e... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.' | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [Memoirs] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do h... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | ournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [The Ton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Burns] | [Lady Mary Anne] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Ode to the closing year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Now it was meeting James at seven in the morning to read Lowth's Prelections in the Latin," | Harriet Martineau | Lowth | Lowth's Prelections in Latin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I we... | Harriet Martineau | Tacitus | Agricola | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I we... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Aitkin | Translation of the Agricola of Tacitus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This landlord was new to the game and took me to see how he was studying to be master of it. He was busy reading th... | | unknown | Licensed houses and their management | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A man is playing the piano briskly; on music stand is a newspaper, open at the sports page, which he is reading. A hu... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conversation went on about Darwin's "Origin of species", and F. said to S. "tha doesn't favour a monkey, but tha ... | | Charles Darwin | Origin of species | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thin... | | [unknown] | Carpentier's life | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper |
| 1800-1849 | ?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour
Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in ... | | Bronislaw Malinowski? | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purch... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'While an old working-class lady of 68 in Worktown, reading a newspaper, summed up her opinion of the war as follows.' | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Brown | Paradise of Coquettes | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When one has finished reading through this pamphlet one comes to the inevit-
able conclusion that there is absolutel... | | [unknown] | [pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Twould make a Paradise of Hell--
& fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all' | Lady Caroline Lamb | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?Dear Sir,
if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in r... | Lady Caroline Lamb | [unknown] | [copy books] | Manuscript: Copy Books |
| 1800-1849 | 'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it beca... | Lady Caroline Lamb | [unknown] | Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Lord Byron?
I must thank you for yr. Poem you have sent me I [this word is illegible] not say how good I think ... | Lady Sarah Jersey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.' | George Canning | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends ... | Molly | Charles Dickens | A tale of two cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?' | Ellen | [unknown] | Sketch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smother... | Miss V | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning. "I suppose Eden thought they'd... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Actually Hotspur is reading from a letter and the quotation goes on: "'The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the fr... | | | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading t... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | The grave of a poetess | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]? | [Adieu] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Dr Clark | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | The record | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe
Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year,
Through all his days... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Crabbe | Tale II, 'The Parting Hour' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite ... | Kay | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very... | | [unknown] | [English novel] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate... | people gathered near the Eros statue | [n/a] | [news running on electric signboard] | Print: electric signboard with scrolling text |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"... | | [unknown] | Low Company | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"... | | Ignazio Silone | Bread and wine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and
read the closing scene, "Othello".' | | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read Freud's "Introductory Lectures".' | | Sigmund Freud | Introductory Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and re... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the dressing table were three books, my own, "Sanders of the River", Snowden's "Wages and Prices", a relic of my s... | | Edgar Wallace | Sanders of the River | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was th... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to rea... | a young couple | [n/a] | [newspaper?] | Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed? |
| 1900-1945 | 'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane... | | [n/a] | [tomb inscriptions] | Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today
Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] re... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, Epistle I | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Maria Tighe | The lily | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Croly | Evening's daughter | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | The Troubadour [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art
There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [On Friendship] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | H. Smith | Country and Town | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]:
'If guardian Powers preside above
Who still extend to virtu... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robert Spencer | Urania | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand] | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Moore | 'Gazel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Edmund Burke | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine | [L'Homme] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines on Home | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Henry Neele | The comet | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The illuminated city | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The forest sanctuary | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [unknown] | Poesie di Ossian | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Mary] [Tighe] | The old Maid's prayer to Diana | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Pollock] | The Course of Time [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | The Dead and the Living [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | William Wordsworth | [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat in a seat in the square, my neighbours were mainly old men wrapped in dowdy overcoats and growling spasmodicall... | | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 9.50 I went into the general office in order to await any cases of infectious diseases or nuisances which may aris... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, ... | | [n/a] | Light and Dark | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coron... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide... | | [n/a] | [morning newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | ' I am disappointed that it is not raining, but bethought myself that it might rain at the time of the procession. I w... | | Emile Burns | Handbook of Marxism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.' | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Started to read George Orwell's "Road to Wigan Pier" -Left Book Club choice for March. Arrived at Liverpool St. punct... | | George Orwell | Road to Wigan Pier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and ... | | | Glasgow Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and ... | | [n/a] | Ayrshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".' | | [n/a] | Daily Worker | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I gave her E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India". She- "I'm not sure, but I believe I've read it. I don't really remem... | | E. M. Forster | A Passage to India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | To my mother | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Resignation | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Joseph Addison | [Spare Time] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Journal of an Annuyee | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not e... | Joseph Banks | Fredrik Hasselquist | Iter Palestinum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the b... | Joseph Banks | Sir Hans Sloane | History of Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,... | Joseph Banks | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,... | Joseph Banks | Peter Simon Pallas | Miscellanea Zoologia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westwa... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San... | Joseph Banks | Abel Janszoon Tasman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took... | Joseph Banks | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly cove... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Aboinense | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Aboinense | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profu... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ... | Jem Parsons | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, w... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the bo... | Joseph Banks | Amedee Francois Frezier | Relation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du Perou | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not ... | Joseph Banks | Francois Valentijn | Oudt en Nieuw Oost-Indie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbrium Aboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that... | Joseph Banks | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1823 I read in Scott?s novel of ?Quentin Durward? the prophetic words of Martivalle, ?Can I look forward without w... | Charles Knight | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somew... | | [unknown] | [news bulletin] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thus under one-third had, on their own showing, attempted to read all the nformation leaflets. But further questionin... | | | information leaflets | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the P.I.L. I read them with contemptuous and cynical amusement. Some people, I suppose, will darken thei... | | | [information leaflets] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out.... | | [n/a] | [information leaflets] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an h... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'To the Poolites each week comes a packet containing two Pool coupons (one to pass on to a friend) and the current iss... | | | Littlewood's Sports Log | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Well, because I do like Ernest Raymond's books and I read all of them as far as I can." '
| | Ernest Raymond | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' | | [unknown] | [thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I've read John Buchan's books before. That's the reason.' | | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to r... | | G B Stern | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to r... | | Archibald Joseph Cronin | Hatter's Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole I'd rather have a book like G. B. Stern's, or Hatter's Castle or The Stars Look Down. It's very sad to r... | | Archibald Joseph Cronin | The stars look down | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But when we read the long speech of the Bishop of London, addressed to his first Diocesan Conference, we were, we con... | | Bishop of London | [speech] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made ... | | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, t... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read a book of H. G. Wells, he's good, I saw that film about "Things to Come", it's good, never read about scien... | | H G Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, w... | | [unknown] | [newspaper?] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's mo... | | [n/a] | People | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthd... | | [unknown] | [horoscopes] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people hav... | | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and An... | | Ann Temple | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and An... | | Marceline d'Alroy | The d'Alroy Diary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] Southey | [The curse of Kehama, canto X] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Walter] [Scott] | [The monastery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | [Kindred hearts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Malcolm | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | Matilde a novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | G.I. C..... | The Eve of the Battle | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | A Highland Salute to the Queen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words r... | | [unknown] | Long ago! | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath ... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her da... | | [n/a] | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-... | | [n/a] | Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The Star of Missions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Innes[?] | Lines on Mountghaine [?] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Luis Baylon | Farewell to the Year | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Maria] Abdy | Worsted work | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | M. Vicary | Lines | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The dead friend | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Mackintosh | Adieu | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles] | To one at rest | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 255
April 7th 1940
'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen ... | Benjamin Britten | Michelangelo Buonarrotti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 271
4 July 1940
'Please forgive me not having written eight and a half days ago or more to thank you for your... | Peter Pears | Somerset Maughan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 292
7 October 1940
Referring to the Blitz on London:
'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a ni... | Benjamin Britten | [n/a] | New York Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Afternoon: read one of Blair's Sermons.' | John Cole | Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in ... | John Cole | [unknown] | Royal Academy Catalogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called awa... | John Cole | [unknown] | [album] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening before I left, walked to Falsgrave and on making a call looked over Perceval's "Account of Ceylon".' | John Cole | Perceval | Account of Ceylon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.' | John Cole | Thomas Cape | [private writing] | Manuscript: Sheet, mss |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking over the Articles of a General Factor in the village, where I was transacting some business, a little book... | John Cole | John Edwards | Recollections of Filey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small p... | John Cole | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts... | John Cole | [unknown authors] | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Procured the loan of Bridge's [sic] "History of Northamptonshire" from Birdsall's Library in order to consult it for ... | John Cole | Bridges | History of Northamptonshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon rea... | John Cole | [unknown] | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrim... | Joseph Mayett | [n/a] | Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... he [ie George III] paid attention when books were read to him, and asked for excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Jo... | King George III | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and par... | Prince George | Joseph Addison | [Political works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the pri... | Prince George | [unknown] | [explanation of the principles of the Christian religion] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, h... | King George III | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm ... | Amelia Opie | [n/a] | Psalm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | [Sunday newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | John Bull | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' | | [n/a] | Sports Illustrated | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...' | | [n/a] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but not... | | [unknown] | [thrillers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.'
| | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stu... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".' | | [n/a] | News of the World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the "Times", which takes a time, - I suppose about an hour a day.' | | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.' | | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, ... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours ea... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.' | | [n/a] | Woman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' | | [n/a] | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel'
| | [n/a] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.' | | [n/a] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much a... | | [n/a] | The Engineer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'F 25 C is holding a slim book (looks new), approximate size 81/2" x 51/2", yellow jacket cover, title "Man Born to be... | | Dorothy Sayers | Man born to be king | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between han... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the "Iliad". To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard ... | Robert Mitchell | Homer | The Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Professor Hansteen | Inquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | [Brothers] Grimm | [Fairy Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | Joan O'Neill | The Daisy Chain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Carrots | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th... | Flora Thompson | [n/a] | Bow Bells | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th... | Flora Thompson | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th... | Flora Thompson | [unknown] | His Ice Queen | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laura's greatest find was a battered old copy of Belzoni's "Travels" propping open somebody's pantry window. When she... | Flora Thompson | Giovanni Battista Belzoni | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's condit... | | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to rea... | | [unknown] | [detective novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [n/a] | Sunday Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [n/a] | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [unknown] | Guide to Edinburgh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [unknown] | [books on James IV] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... | | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'His lesson consisted of Bible reading, turn and turn round the class, of reciting from memory the names of the king... | Flora Thompson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'Laura, who by this time was reading "Old St Paul's" at home, simply romped through this Little-Go' | Laura Thompson | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 |
'Once he gave out to Laura's class two verses of "The Ancient Mariner", reading them through first, then dictating t... | Flora Thompson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Ancient Mariner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laura was lucky enough to be given a bound volume of "Good Words" - or was it "Home Words"? - in which the Queen's ow... | Flora Thompson | Queen Victoria | Leaves from Her Majesty's Life in the Highlands | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of... | Flora Thompson | Sir Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''A grand old book, "The Pilgrim's Progress"! But I've something here you'll like better. "Cranford". Ever heard of it... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wid... | Flora Thompson | Maria Charlesworth | Ministering Children | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wid... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Wetherell | Queechy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide, Wi... | Flora Thompson | Elizabeth Wetherell | The Wide, Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She was shocked by some of the hero's adventures but more often thrilled. Laura learned quite a lot by reading "Don J... | Flora Thompson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'."
These sort of abrupt speeche... | Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [cl... | Frances Burney | Jerningham | 'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the first page of the newspaper first, then turn to the back page, then fold the outside in. A chance headline... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the headlines and the adverts. If any particular headline strikes me I follow it up. Particularly comment on p... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'First of all I read the main headlines, then the various news paragraphs in order of importance on the front page, th... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an ... | | [n/a] | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading t... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Jeffrey | Article IX | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Jeffrey | Article X | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | Article ix | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | Article iv | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read... | Flora Thompson | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read... | Flora Thompson | William Thackery | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [n/a] | Jack O' London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... | | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... | | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case ... | Princess Elizabeth | Fanny Burney | Camilla | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Do you know Dr. Burney, Ma'am?" said Mr Thrale.
"No Sir, but I know his Book. I think it's vastly pretty;"' | Victoria Kynaston | Charles Burney | 'Present State of Music in France and Italy' or 'General History of Music' vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord, Ma'am, I was so entertained & I was quite ill, too, Ma'am, quite ill when I read it! - but for all that, Lord, ... | Victoria Kynaston | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains... | Frances Burney | Henry Harrington | Nugae Antiquae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have breakfast (next real interval is tea time, so breakfast includes prayers, reading and any urgent letters - this ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading the other day the story of an air flight. They had a long and dangerous journey to undertake, and befor... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the papers lately and I am astonished read what Mr. Heathcot-Amery has done. His people are highl... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, see Miss. Christmas Day my father was reading his paper. His glass of beer was at his side. He feel asleep and ... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"Oh here they are again! I'll be glad when the bloody election's over. Why don't they make their minds up, what they ... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegra... | | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 1... | | [n/a] | [periodical] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 1... | | [n/a] | [newspaper cutting] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunc... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Alphonse Daudet | Tartarin sur les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie | Letters from a Silent Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Thomas Jonathan Jackson | [Military History] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dimitri Merejkowski | The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As regards books, such a lot depends on what sort of life you are leading. I always relish Ingram's terse epigrammat... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Brooke Foss Westcott | Introduction to the Study of the Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier | History of the War in the Peninsular | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dom Lorenzo Scupoli | The Spiritual Combat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I h... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | [unknown] | [unknown - on Higher criticism] | Print: Unknown, cuttings |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dr Robert William Dale | The Doctrine of Atonement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Gore | Prayer and the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Brooke Foss Westcott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio... | Donald William Alers Hankey | [unknown] | [essay on rifling] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ... | Jem Parsons | [unknown] | The adventures of a louse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ... | Jem Parsons | Henry Watson | Valentine and Orson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ... | Jem Parsons | [unknown] | Roslin Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ... | Jem Parsons | [unknown] | [book of prayers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the... | | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers someti... | | [n/a] | [Left-wing newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading o... | | [n/a] | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | C E M Joad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | H G Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | A Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and tr... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with t... | | [unknown] | Arise to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say th... | | Dick Sheppard | [article in News Chronicle] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another lovely day: almost too hot to do anything. I've been depressed all day after reading Churchill's speech. It's... | | Winston Churchill | [speech] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The leaflet makes a special point of common sense but the way it urges people to use it is unconsciously the upper cl... | | Ministry of Information | [invasion leaflet] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'And a housewife, after reading it, says she is satisfied the she has done everything and knows everything that can be... | | Ministry of Information | invasion leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fig... | | [n/a] | [Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain s... | | [n/a] | [Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '(after reading story): " I see what he (Kennedy) means. The government's all Labour at the moment except Mr. Churchil... | | Kennedy | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than... | | [unknown] | [works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read ... | | Mary Border | Passport for a girl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thrill... | | [unknown] | [a thriller] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... | | [n/a] | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and transla... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Mohs | Crystalography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Du Contrat Social | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic]... | Jane Austen | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I would not let Martha [Lloyd] read First Impressions [later published as "Pride and Prejudice"] again upon any accou... | Martha Lloyd | Jane Austen | First Impressions | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn fo... | Jane Austen | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter... | Jane Austen | Madame de Genlis | les Veillees du Chateau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sen... | Thomas Carlyle | Leigh Hunt | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, ... | Jane Austen | Robert Henry | History of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc... | James Austen | Dr Edward Jenner | pamphlet on the cow pox | |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc... | Augusta Bramston | Dr Edward Jenner | pamphlet on the cow pox | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent int... | Eliza de Feuillide | | [newspaper reports] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.' | Jane Austen | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was s... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f... | James anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.' | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read ... | Jane Austen | Thomas Gisborne | An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies... | Austen family | Madame de Genlis | Alphonsine, or Maternal Affection | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies... | Austen family | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of Arabella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.' | Jane Austen | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.' | Jane Austen | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading ... | Jane Austen | Sarah Harriet Burney | Clarentine, A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear ... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.' | Jane Austen | Joseph Baretti | Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wif... | Jane Austen | Revd T. Jefferson | Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng... | James Austen | Walter Scott | Marmion, or A Tale of Flodden Field | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I r... | Jane Austen | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of ... | Lizzy Knight | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'While I write now, George is most industriously making and naming paper ships, at which he afterwards shoots with hor... | Edward Knight | Anna Maria Porter | Lake of Killarney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillo... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & l... | Austen Family | Anne Grant of Laggan | Memoirs of an American Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & l... | Austen Family | Mrs S. Sykes | Margiana, or Widdrington Tower | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being al... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athen... | Austen Family | Sydney Owenson | Woman, or Ida of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athen... | Jane Austen | Sydney Owenson | The Wild Irish Girl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed t... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | unidentified work in MS | Manuscript: novel in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & ... | Jane Austen | | Hampshire Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have ju... | Jane Austen | | Newspaper report on Parliamentary Sessions | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marc... | Jane Austen | | Newspaper report | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & ... | Harriot Webb | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.' | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be convey... | Jane Austen | Rachel Hunter | Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the 28th September I was reading "Blackwood", when the magazines of our metropolis were just getting on their oute... | Charles Knight | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The proc... | Charles Knight | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jonathan Swift | The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles James Blomfield | A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Blanco White | Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Blanco White | Letters from Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Blanco White | A letter to Charles Butler, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Payne Knight | An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Hookham Frere | Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Blanco White | The Poor Man's Preservative against Popery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Beaumont | The Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | August Heinrich Matthiae | A Copious Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | The Doctor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Philip Skelton | The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Henry George Grey | Corrected Report of the Speech of Viscount Howick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Nicholson | A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | David Lyndsay [pseud] | Dramas of the Ancient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Herder | Kalligone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Georg August Goldfuss | Handbuch der Zoologie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lorenz Oken | Erste Ideen zur Theorie des Lichts, der Finsternis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Principien | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Grundiss des Eigenthumlichen der Wissenschaftslehr | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre als Han | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Camden | Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn Got | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ernst Platner | Ernst Platners Philosophische Aphorismen nebst ein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Ueber die Idee der Universitaten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | Prodomus Philosophiae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Spee | Trutz Nachtigal ein geistlich poetisches Lustwaldl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus | Das Leben Jesu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Aristophanes | The Birds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Nehemiah Grew | Cosmologica Sacra OR A Discourse of the Universe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gebbard Ehrenreich Maass | Versuch uber die Einbildungskraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hermann Boerhaave | A New Method of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Petrarch | Il Petrarca di nuova ristampato, & c diligentement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Einleitung in das Neue Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Benjamin Wheeler | The Theological Lectures of the Late Rev. Benjamin Wheeler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Robinson | Miscellaneous Works of Robert Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugh James Rose | Prolusio in Curia Cantabrigiensi recitata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Ritson | A Select Collection of English Songs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Charles Wells | Two essays: one upon single vision with two eyes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ferdinand Friedrich Runge | Neveste phytochemische Entdeckingen zur Begrundung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Webster | The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Ritson | Ancient songs, from the time of King Henry the Third | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | Book of Common Prayer [unknown edition] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Hayley | The Life of Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Daniel | The Poetical Works of Mr Samuel Daniel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alighieri Dante | The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alighieri Dante | The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Wissenschaft der Logik | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Charles Louis D'Arblay | The Vanity of All Earthly Greatness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Herder | Briefe das studium der Theologie betreffend | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Hearne | A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort, in Hudson's Bay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Spottiswoode | The History of the Church of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Foster | The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Galt | Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon | A Select Collection of Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Harwood | Annotations, Ecclesiastical and Devotional | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Mariana Starke | Travels on the continent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Dugald Stewart | Dissertation First | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Emanuel Swedenborg | The Nature of the Intercourse between the Soul and the body | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Thomson | A System of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Isaac Taylor | Elements of Thought | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Philosophische Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Nicola Francesco Haym | Notizia de' libri rari viella lingua italiana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Anderson [Editor] | The Works of the British Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Bond Head | Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an old man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christian Heinroth | Lehrbuch der Anthropologie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Bull | Defensio Fidei Nicaenae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Abbti | Vermischte Werke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Royal Society | The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Nelson Coleridge | "Life and Writings of Hesiod" Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India Colonies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville Illon | Les ages de la nature et histoire de l'espece human | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Scott | The Christian Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Jefferson | Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Mary Lamb | Mrs Leicester's School: or, the history of several young ladies, related by themselves | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Fitzwilliam Owen | Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Eikon Basilike | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jeremy Taylor | A collection of polemical discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia Londinensis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Encyclopaedia Londinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Williams | Poems, Lyric and Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Philosophische Schrifte[n] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Philosophische Schrifte[n] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Sedgwick | Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the nature and effect of evangelical preaching | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Walter Wilson | Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Wolf | Curae philologicae et criticae, ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Sedgwick | Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Selden | Table-Talk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Selden | Table-Talk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Karl Christian Wolfart | Jahrbucher Fur den Lebens-Magnetismus oder Neues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christopher Wordsworth | Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christopher Wordsworth | "Who Wrote Eikon Basilike?" considered and answered | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Shakespeare | Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | System des transcendentalen Idealismus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | System des transcendentalen Idealismus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling | Ueber die Gottheiten von Samothrace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Wrangham | The Life of Dr. Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christian Wolff | Logic, or rational thoughts on the powers of the human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | August Wilhelm Schlegel | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | August Wilhelm Schlegel | Ueber dramatische Kunst und Litteratur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Wrangham | Scraps | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher | A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St Luke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher | Ueber den sogenannten ersten Brief des Paulos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Davison | Discourses on Prophecy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Abraham Hillhouse | Hadad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Daniel Defoe | The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Hooker | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | anonymous | A Dialogue on Parliamentary Reform | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugh of Saint Victor | De Sacramentis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Darley | Sylvia or the May Queen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rene Descartes | Opera Philosophica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Antoine Desmoulins | Histoire naturelle des races humaines | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Homer | Whole Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Homeri Hymni et epigrammata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Homeri Hymni et epigrammata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette | Theodor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Howie | Biographia Scoticana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Hughes | The Believer's Prospect and Preparation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Donne | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jean Antoine Dubois | Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India, and of their Institutions, religious and civil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John and Michael Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francesco Baldovini | Lamento di cecco da Varlungo | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Peter Augustine Baines | Faith, Hope, and Charity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Karl Friedrich Bahrdt | Glaubens-Bekanntniss | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
mainly 1804-1811; a few notes added up to 1818-1819, one note is as late as 1826 or later | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Asgill | A Collection of Tracts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Asgill | A Collection of Tracts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | M Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens | Kabbalistische Briefe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Anster | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Annual Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Analysis of the Report of a Committee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | The Age. A Poem. In eight books. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Aeschylus | Prometheus Vinctus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Adelung | Deutsche Sprachlehre fur Schulen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae Li | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Adam | Private Thoughts on Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Patrick Colquhoun | A Treatise on Indigence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Collins | Poetical Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Nelson Coleridge | Six Months in the West Indies in 1825 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | Athenaeum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Nelson Coleridge | Notes on the Reform Bill | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Ellery Channing | A Discourse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir George Colebrooke | Six Letters on Intolerance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gabriello Chiabrera | Delle Opere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Chambre | Some Animadversions upon the Declaration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hartley Coleridge | The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Chalmers | The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Chalmers | The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Chalmers | The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Cave | Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Claudius Claudianus | Quae exstant opera | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Conrad Barchusen | Elementa Chemiae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Byfield | The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Butler | The Anatomy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Butler | Vindication of "The Book of the Roman Catholic Church" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Butler | The Book of the Roman Catholic Church | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Burnet | De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium Liber | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gilbert Burnet | The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gilbert Burnet | The Life of William Bedell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gottfried August Burger | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Thomas Browne | Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Brooke | The Fool of Quality OR The History of Henry Earl of Moreland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Brerewood | A Second Treatise of the Sabbath | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hendrik Brenkmann | Historia Pandectarum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Lisle Bowles | Sonnets, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Book of Common Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Claude Alexandre, Comte de Bonneval | Memoirs of the Bashaw Count Bonneval | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gottfried Christian Bohn | Wohlerfahrner Kaufmann | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jakob Bohme | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Blake | The Ladies Charity School-House Roll of Highgate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | A Harmonie upon the Three Evangelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Holy Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Holy Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Holy Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Holy Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Beaumont | Fifty Comedies and Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Baxter | Reliquiae Baxterianae & c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Baxter | Reliquiae Baxterianae & c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Baxter | Reliquiae Baxterianae & c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Baxter | Catholick Theologie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Bartram | Travels Through North & South Carolina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Barclay | Argenis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Barclay | Argenis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Lavington | The Moravians compared and detected | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | St Francis of Sales | Il Teotima osia il trattato dell'amor di Dio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading an article by a Labour M.P. who wants to harbour refugees. He's all wrong. Good job we haven't got dict... | | anon [A Labour MP] | article | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well you know I think I'd read number 15 first. I did read it the other day as a matter of fact. It's got a bit of a ... | | | Fuel economy leaflet 15 | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh I did see that (15). I read it - actually it makes you read it because you have to go through to the end to find o... | | | Information leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Army officer: The first I heard of the invasion was when I was reading the papers in the mess after breakfast, when s... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sit... | | unknown | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sit... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestl... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads the front page, turns to the back, looks at the cartoon intently as if trying to understand it; then opens it a... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads part. "This is very interesting". Reads carefully. "Of course it was ridiculous jamming all foreigners into con... | | anon | Internees Leaflet | |
| 1900-1945 | 'was reading Hitler's speech (oddly enough I read Hitler's speeches but very seldom read Churchill's I feel there is m... | | Adolf Hitler | Speeches | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me see. (Then, after reading it all through very carefully) - But we know all about this. They sent round leaflet... | | | Gas mask poster | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Laud | The Second Volume of the Remains of the Most Reverend father in God, and blessed martyr, William Laud | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Duncan Forbes | The Whole Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Laud | The History of the Troubles and Tryal of The Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Carl Friedrich Flogel | Geschichte der Komischen Litteratur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Claude Fleury | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Fitzgibbon | The speech of the Right Honourable John Lord Baron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge | Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magneti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge | Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magneti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Kenyon | Rhymed Plea for Tolerance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Fielding | The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Richard Field | Of the Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Marsilio Ficino | Platonica theologia de imortalitate animorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Sammlung einiger bisher unbekannt gebliebener klei | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Ver | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Veber den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Naturwissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Die Metaphysik der Sitten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Critik der reinen Vernunft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Critik der reinen Vernunft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Immanuel Kants Logik ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Critik der Urtheilskraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Die Bestimmung des Menschen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Anthropologie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Die Anweisung zum seeligen leben | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus; or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | "Junius" | The Letters of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann | Fantasiestucke in Calloti Manier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pierre Jurieu | The History of the Council of Trent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Heinrich Hoffbauer | Der Mensch in allen Zonen der Erde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hyman Hurwitz | The Elements of the Hebrew Language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edwin Atherstone | The Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Panthea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Philippe de la Clyle, sire de Commines | The History of Philip de Commines | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Johnson | The Works of the Late Reverend Mr Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joannes Scotus Erigena | De divisione naturae libri quinque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joannes Scotus Erigena | De divisione naturae libri quinque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Einleitung ins Alte Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr Moses Mendelssohn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr Moses Mendelssohn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen Litteratur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas W Dymock | England's Dust and Ashes Raked up | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James Hutton | An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Law | A serious call to a devout and holy life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Immanuel Kant | Vermischte Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | David Friedlander | Sendschreiben an seine Hochwurden Herrn Oberconsistorialrath und Probst Teller zu Berlin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Andrew Fuller | The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and Compared as to their Moral Tendency | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Theodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Gute Gottes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Leighton | The Expository Works and Other Remains of Archbishop Leighton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | The Church-History of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | The Church-History of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | The Holy State and Profane State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | Life Out of Death | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, With The History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Leben, nebst seinem noch ubrigen litterarischen Nachlasse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessings samm Hiche Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | A Triple Reconciler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judenthum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Lightfoot | The Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Benedetto Menzini | Poesie di Benedetto Menzini Fiorentino divise in due tomi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Fulke Greville | Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Hacket | Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams, DD | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | The Theological Works of the most pious and learned Henry More, DD Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Hacket | A Century of Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | Philosophical Poems, etc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima Magica abscondita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Hall | An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Nemesius of Emesa | Nemesii Philosophi Clarissimi de Natura Hominis Liber Utilissimus | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | David Hartley | Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Nicolson | The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Martin Luther | Colloquia mensalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Nicolson | The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Lyttelton | The History of the Life of King Henry the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Cotton Mather | Magnalia Christi Americana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bernard de Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees: or, private vices, publick benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Von Matthisson | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Von Matthisson | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Stillingfleet | Origines Sacrae, or a rational account of the grounds of natural and revealed religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Steele | Mr Recorder's Speech to the Lord Protector | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Stanley | The History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc, an epic poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Smith | Select Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Sherlock | A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Algernon Sidney | The Works of Algernon Sidney | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Philip Sidney | Arcadia der Graffin von Pembrock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | The Second Lash of Alazonomastix | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | The Appeal of Inivred Innocence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugo de Groot | De jure belli et pacis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann | De emendenda ratione graecae grammaticae pars prim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Heinrich Jung | Theorie der Geister-Kunde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling | Jahrbucher der Medicin als Wissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Jahn | Appendix hermeneuticae seu exercitationes exegetic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi | Werke (Vol I-III [of 6]) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Anton Mesmer | Mesmerismus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Cesare Mussolini | Italian Exercises | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Ludwig Von Hardenberg | Novalis Schriften (Vol I of 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Napoleon Bonaparte | Codice di Napoleone il Grande pel Regno d'Italia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'Anvers | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Law Magazine OR Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Leighton | The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Leighton | The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Fuller | The History of the Worthies of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne | Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Benjamin Pitts Capper | A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | An Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Macdiarmid | Lives of British Statesmen, & c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Noble | An Appeal in behalf of the views of the Eternal World And State And The Doctrines Of Faith And Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Nathan Hale | The American System OR The effects of high duties | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Miller | Sermons Intended to Show a Sober Application Of Scriptural Principles To The Realities Of Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Gray | The Works of Thomas Gray | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Godwin | Thoughts Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Parr's Spital Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | M Loewe | A Treatise on the Phenomena of Animal Magnetism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Lloyd | Nugae Canorae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Galt | The Provost OR Memoirs of His Own Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Leighton | The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, D.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the importation of foreign corn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Smith | Seven Letters on National Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Philip Massinger | The Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes critic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | History of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Lives of the British Admirals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | Omniana, or horae otiosiores | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym] | The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa Defended | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Benedictus de Spinoza | Benedicti de Spinoza opera quae supersunt omnia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel O'Sullivan | The Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in the | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Parnell | An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John James Park | The Dogmas of the Constitution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir William Stewart | Outlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the British Land Forces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Sterling | Arthur Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Friedrich Meckel | System des vergleichenden Anatomie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger | Philosophische Gesprache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John James Park | Conservative Reform | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Oxlee | The Christian Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Der Geschlossne Handelsstaat | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Grundzuge der philosophischen Naturwissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Grundzuge der philosophischen Naturwissenschaft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Anthropologie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lorenz Oken | Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Caricaturen des Heiligsten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Caricaturen des Heiligsten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Lorenz Oken | Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Die gegenwartige zeit und wie sie geworden mit besonderer R?cksicht auf Deutschland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Steffens | Beytrage zur innern Naturgeschichte der Erde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Malcolm Laing | The History of Scotland, from the Union of the Crowns on the accession of James VI to the throne of England to the Union of the Kingdoms in the reign of Queen Anne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Manuel Lacunza Y Diaz | The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Falconer | The Shipwreck | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Stanley Faber | A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy and Crete | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Stanley Faber | A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy and Crete | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A member of the Church of England | Eternal Punishment Proved to Be Not Suffering, But Privation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Adolph Carl August Eschenmayer | Psychologie in drei Theilen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ben Jonson | The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Swinburne | A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Peel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Jahn | The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Irving | Sermons, Lectures and Occasional Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Irving | For Missionaries after the Apostolical School | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [n/a] | The Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v... | John B. Gough | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v... | John B. Gough | Wiley and Putnam (eds) | Library of Choice Reading | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.' | Benjamin Newton | [n/a] | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th... | Sarah H. Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"- Alas only twice... | Sarah H. Burney | Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We got the Iris this morning I copied out of it the petition of the G [?] dispersed thro Germany and Hartman's Solilo... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Fisher who came up to alter Mr E a gown &c against our journay bought in a "Cambridge Inteligencer" to look at; it... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Cambridge Inteligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '[Brought from the library] "Varieties of English Literature" vol 1st which being unintelligible stuff for the most pa... | Joseph Hunter | [William] [Tooke] | Varieties of Literature From Foreign Literary Jour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was deeply engag'd in Homer & Burgesdicius, otherwise should have answer'd it [letter from John Potter] sooner. I ... | Richard Hurd | Francis Burgerdiscius [Burgersdijk] | Institutionum Logicarum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out... | Alexander Monro | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c o... | James Jenkins | John Tomkins | Piety Promoted in Brief Memorials ... Society of F | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Person... | Joseph Hunter | Anon | The Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye fifteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see my Grandmother, she lent me 2 romances "Richard Couer de Lion" by Mr White author of "Earl Strongbow" &... | Joseph Hunter | James White | The Adventures of King Richard Couer de Lion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to Mr Gales to order two book which I saw at Birmingham [...] I brought the "Life of Lackington" from the Libr... | Joseph Hunter | James Lackington | Memoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I brought from the Library "Pennant's [Views?] of London", out of which I drew a view of the Savoy Hospital' | Joseph Hunter | Thomas Pennant | Account of London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I drew out of Pennant a View of the Ruins of Clerkenwell Church' | Joseph Hunter | Thomas Pennant | Account of London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'bought Dodsley's "Trifles", a very entertaining book [in margin] Price 1s which Mr E. gave me to buy it with & has li... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Dodsley | Trifles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took the 2nd Vol. & brought the 3d of Lyons &c. They are very entertaining books.' | Joseph Hunter | Daniel Lyons | The Environs of London, Being an Historical Account | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We got "The Iris" this morning; it contained an Advertisement from Mr [Sorby?], saying that he intended to resign the... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed ... | Joseph Hunter | [unknown] | [Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library] | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We learn from the "Iris" of this morning that the "Wisperer" is just published by J.M.Gomery [James Montgomery].' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Sheffield Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.' | Joseph Hunter | Humphrey Prideaux | The Old and New Testament Connected | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Within these few days I could not have a book from the library because Mr E. had lent the "Castle of Otranto" to Miss... | Joseph Hunter | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fetched the "Castle of Mowbray" from Lindley's Library; a very silly Love tale. Took the "Castle of Otranto" to the L... | Joseph Hunter | Mrs Harley | The Castle of Mowbray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought from the library for Miss Haynes the 4 [th] vol. of Mrs Godwin's Posthumous Works. It contains Letters, one o... | Joseph Hunter | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumos Works, Vol IV: Letters and Miscellaneous | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought [...] the European Magazine for April 1798; it contains an essay on provincial Half-pennies by Joseph M[orer]... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | European Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took Radcliffe's "Tour" to the Library; I was not so much entertained with it, as I expected tho her descriptions a... | Joseph Hunter | Ann Radcliffe | A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Returned from S. Read as I came along a considerable part of "Cotoni Posthuma" which Mr M[anley] lent me.' | Joseph Hunter | Robert Cotton | Cotoni Postuma: Divers Choice Pieces of the Renown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to copy out of Lodge's "Illustrations", the lives of the 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Earls of Shrewsbury; the book con... | Joseph Hunter | Edmund Lodge | Illustrations of British History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the account of the Earls of Shrewsbury.' | Joseph Hunter | Edmund Lodge | Illustrations of British History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to draw out of Lodge, the monument of George 4th Earl of Shrewsbury.' | Joseph Hunter | Edmund Lodge | Illustrations of British History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imi... | Joseph Hunter | Anon | Fragments in the Manner of Sterne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.' | Joseph Hunter | Anon | Fragments in the Manner of Sterne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought from the Library Gifford's "Address to the loyal Association". [In margin:"A Pamphlet"] he says that he has ... | Joseph Hunter | John Gifford | A Short Address to the Members of the Loyal Association | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very enterta... | Joseph Evans | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Wollstoncraft's "View of the French Revolution" Vol I. It appears to rather a panegyric upon the actions of ... | Joseph Hunter | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I begun to write in my Common-place book, the account of the King of Patterdale [from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', bor... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took the "Gent. Mag." to the Library, & brought Frederick Morton Eden's "State of the Poor"; he gives an account of t... | Joseph Hunter | Sir Frederick Morton Eden | The State of the Poor; or an History of the Labour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Percy's "Reliques" to the Library [no evidence of reading this text], & brought Ireland's "Picturesque Views on ... | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Ireland | Picturesque Views of the River Thames | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We got the "Iris"; it contains an exceedingly humourous account of the first campaign of our Loyal Independant Sheffi... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Bought Mr Smith's "Sermon to the Odd Fellows", Professor Robinson's "Proof of a Conspiracy" seems to have made a deep... | Joseph Hunter | George Smith | A Sermon Delivered in the Parish Church of Sheffield | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it &... | Joseph Hunter | Donald Campbell | A Journey Over Land to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who... | Joseph Hunter | Donald Campbell | A Journey Over Land to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late be... | Joseph Hunter | Lawrence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vols] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part o... | Joseph Hunter | James Montgomery | The Whisperer; or Tales & Speculations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, re... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Mrs Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho"; I wish I had not read it before, for upon a second reading it loses h... | Joseph Hunter | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are... | Joseph Evans | Thomas Pennant | Outlines of the Globe: the View of Hindoostan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of the "Monthly Mag." an example of English hexameter. [Borrowed 'the first 12 no.s' from Miss Haynes on 1... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Iris" this week contains an advertisement from the Cutler's Company [annual ball] White Bear Inn. Price 10s 6d.' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of Zimmerman on "Solitude" the introduction to it. [Notes that it is a 1797 edn when borrowed on 26 Aug. 1... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Zimmermann to the library [In margin: 'vestry']. It consists for the most part of declamation, tho' it is very i... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Saw at Book John's [In margin: A person who stands in the Market Place & sells books & of whom I have sometimes bough... | Joseph Hunter | De La Roche | New Memoirs of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read part of Townson but I think I shall read no more as it consists of nothing [else?] but mineralogical & bo... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Townson | Travels in Hungary with a Short Account of Vienna | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took the 1st vol of Staunton to the library [borrowed on 7 Sept], & brought Townson's "Travels" ... The 1st part of S... | Joseph Hunter | Sir George Leonard Staunton | An Authentic Account from the King of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".' | Joseph Hunter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took [the] "Answer to Wilberforce" to the Chapel Library & brought "The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, Being... | Joseph Hunter | [unknown] | The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of the "Spirit of the Public Journals" "Washing Day", a poem in blank verse; originally printed in the "Mon... | Joseph Hunter | [unknown] | The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I brought the "Spirit of the Journals", I did not think that it would have contributed anything towards the acco... | Joseph Hunter | [unknown] | The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote also out of the "Spirit of the Journals" "a hymn for the fast day" by Captain Norrice on Foxe's Birthday.' | Joseph Hunter | [unknown] | The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took the "Spirit of the Journals" to the Chapel Library [...] there are no less than 101 Epigrams on Messrs Pitt & Du... | Joseph Hunter | [unknown] | The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". ... | Joseph Hunter | [Anon] | Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appe... | Joseph Hunter | [Anon] | Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Monthly Magazine" contains an account of the publication of that long expected work by Mr Conder of Ipswich, "an... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of the "Analytical Review" an account of the Abbey of Glastonbury which they have extracted from Gilpin's O... | Joseph Hunter | William Gilpin | The Analytical Review; or History of Literature | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Iris" in mentioning the Sessions at Sheffield says ...' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read a beautiful story in Pratt [borrowed on 11 Oct] concerning a decayed merchant & his daughter who had retired int... | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Procured a paper in form of an advertisement called "Long Faces" published Feb. 28th 1794 on the fast which was held ... | Joseph Hunter | Anon | Long Faces; Amusement for Starving Mechanics | Print: Advertisement |
| 1700-1799 | 'brought also the "Gent Mag" for Sepr 1798. [It] speaks very severly of Mr Smith's Sermon to the Odd-fellows; they say... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is ... | Joseph Hunter | Helen Maria Williams | A Tour in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Wolstonecraft's "View of the French Revolution", from the Chapel Library, for Miss Haynes to read. Read in Mi... | Joseph Hunter | Hannah More | Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Spy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought from the Library as a pamphlet Bunbury's "Academy for Grown Horsemen"; in some parts he is exceedingly humuro... | Joseph Hunter | Henry William Bunbury | An Academy for Grown Horsemen | |
| 1700-1799 | 'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appeara... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought the 2d number of the "Anti-Jacobin Review & Magazine", which is got into the Surry Street library instead of ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Anti-Jacobin Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Borrowed the "Spy" of one of our men; it is peculiarly calculated for the lower class of people. Mr Harrison a school... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Spy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she g... | Joseph Hunter | Helen Maria Williams | A Tour in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ... | Joseph Hunter | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ... | Joseph Evans | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du... | | Samuel Rogers | 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du... | Charlotte Sussannah Fry | Samuel Rogers | 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dus... | Charlotte Sussannah Fry | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to read as my Sunday Reading Benson's "Life of Christ".' | Joseph Hunter | George Benson | The History of the Life of Jesus Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh! Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please...'[6 lines] 'Marmion' | Carey/Maingay group | Walter Scott | Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written to the Memory of Sir G Campbell' 'To Him whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | Lines Inscribed on the Monument Lately... Erected | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...' | Carey/Maingay group | [Thomas] [Moore?] | 'When Love was a Child' OR ['Loves Wreath'] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written by Moore on Miss [Curria]' 'She is far from the Land, where her young Hero sleeps/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | 'She is Far From the Land' [Irish Melodies] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Remember the Past!' '"Remember the Past" Oh since Fate has bereft me/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Alaric Alexander Watts | Remember the Past | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Tear' 'When the soft tear steals silently from the eye/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Susanna Blamire | 'When The Soft Tear Steals Silently' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Affectionate Heart' 'Let the great man, his treasures possessing/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Joseph Cottle | 'The Affectionate Heart' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Fanny' 'Oh! Name him not unless it be/...' 'T Haynes Bayly' | Carey/Maingay group | Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly | 'The Forsaken to her Father' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text.... | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | 'Remember Thee' [from Irish Melodies] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On a Gold Heart Which Was broken' 'Ill fated heart and can it be/...' [transcript changes the gender of the speaker] | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Farewell to...' 'Fare thee well! Tis meet we part, /...' 'July 6th 1835/Julia' | Julia | Alaric Alexander Watts | A Woman's Farewell. Adapted to an Air by Mozart | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To My Mother' 'Oh! Thou whose tender smile most partially/...' | Julia | Mary Tighe | Sonnet Addressed To My Mother | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron' | Julia | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'They sin who tell us Love candie/...' [16 lines] 'Southey' | Julia | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama OR 'Love' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Riddle/which every reader may solve for herself/but none to another'
'I know not who these lines may see/I know n... | Julia | James Montgomery | A Riddle | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Modern Greece/ From the Bride of Abydos'
'Know ye the land where the cypress & myrtle/...' [canto one, stanza one (... | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos OR 'Modern Greece' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."' | George or Edward Carey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'To A Lady Weeping' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | 'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Selina' 'I have known thee in the sunshine/of thy beauty and thy bloom/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Haynes Bayly | I Have Known Thee in the Sunshine | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed] | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Oh Thou Who Dry'st the Mourner's Tear | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Bridesmaid' 'The bridal is o'er the guests are all gone/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Haynes Bayly | The Bridesmaid | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../' | Julia | George Gordon, Lord Byron | From the Turkish [The Chain I Gave] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nature and Nature's Laws lay hidin night/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Alexander Pope | Epitaph XI:Intended for Sir Isaac Newton | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835' | 'R.G.C.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lines Written Beneath A Picture | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Deck not with Gems"' 'Deck not with gems that lovely form forme/...' | Julia | Thomas Haynes Bayly | Deck Not With Gems | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We waste, not use, ourtime; we breathe, not live' [single line] 'Young' | Carey/Maingay group | Edward Young | Night Thoughts OR 'Night Two' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [mino... | Edward or George Carey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love" | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Last Green Leaf' 'The last green leaf hangs lonely now/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly | The Last Green Leaf | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extract from Moore's Love of the Angels' [The Second Angels Story, ll. 1043-1066] | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | The Love of the Angels | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The dews of the evening most carefully shun Being tears of the sky for the loss of the sun! Chesterfield' | Carey/Maingay group | [P.D.] [Stanhope] | Advice to a Lady in Autumn | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Fragment' 'When to their airy hall... [printed first line 'When, to their...] 'Byron' | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | A Fragment | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...' | Margaret Maingay [?] | Thomas Moore | 'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' -... | Margaret Maingay [?] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | To [George, Earl Delawarr] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Change' 'And this is what is left of youth/...' [in 'Fragments' section of 1831 text] | Carey/Maingay group | Laetitia Landon | Change | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Farewell' 'Farewell! If ever fondest prayer/...' [Some differences in punctuation from Byron's text] | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Tear' 'When Friendship or Love' [Epigraph from Gray, not transcribed] | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Tear | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some... | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written by Montgomery on Home' 'There is a spot of earth...' | Carey/Maingay group | James Montgomery | [The West Indies] OR 'Home' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ah ['Oh!' in original] do not quite your friend forget/...' [4 lines: last 4 lines of 48-line text]' | Carey/Maingay group | Mary Tighe | On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To A Dilatory Correspondent' 'Much as thy Silence I admire/...' [4, 6 line stanzas] | Carey/Maingay group | Bernard Barton | To A Dilatory Correspondent | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655] | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22] | Margaret Maingay [probably] | Josiah Conder | Home | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh There are moments in life, keen,blissful, never to be forgotten!!!' | Carey/Maingay group | Susan Ferrier | Marriage. A Novel in Three Volumes | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Mrs Wolstonecraft's "Letters from Norway" [etc.] Mr Godwin in his "Life of Mrs W." speaks very highly of it.' | Joseph Hunter | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought the "Gents Mag" for May. It contains an advertisement for a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" with... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | 'Printed Description' accompanying a comemorative medal | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | 'Learnt to play those Games which are wrote down in the abbreviations in the "History of Chess".' | Joseph Hunter | Lambe Robert | The History of Chess | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took the "Curiosities of Literature" to the Library. It contains many curious things; a great part of it consists of ... | Joseph Hunter | Isaac D'Israeli | Curiosities of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | [The Annual] Register | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".' | Joseph Hunter | Philip Doddridge | The Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and Version | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Beckman's "History of Inventions" to the Library; I have been very much entertained with it. Brought the "Gent. ... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Beckmann | A History of Inventions and Discoveries | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took the 1st vol of Lodges' "Illustrations of British History" to the Library; I brought the 2nd volume; the 5th volu... | Joseph Hunter | | The European Magazine and London Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had it before, but have brought it now for the sake of copying a story or two out of it, of which there are ve... | Joseph Hunter | Leman Thomas Rede | Anecdotes and Biography, including many modern characters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library [...] The author ... | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Memoirs of Living Authors" appears to be quite a catch-penny job. The author gives a list of their works & somet... | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".' | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey compo... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'took "Joan of Arc" to the library. I think the 4 first books, are much superior to any which follow, if we except the... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Southey | Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to re... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Analytical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on ... | Joseph Hunter | David Rivers | Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Monthly Magazine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For the sake of improving myself in the French language, began to translate Vertot's "Revolutions of Portugal".' | Joseph Hunter | Rene Vertot | Histoire des Revolutions de Portugal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".' | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Rogers | An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The anecdotes of Bowyer is to me a very entertaining book, I intend to read it through. I was much pleased with the f... | Joseph Hunter | John Nichols | Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of W Bowyer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The following story is taken from p 248 of the anecdotes of Bowyer. Among the innumerable stories that are told of hi... | Joseph Hunter | John Nichols | Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of W Bowyer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we... | Joseph Hunter | Robert Dodsley (editor) | A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procu... | Joseph Hunter | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have ... | Joseph Hunter | Peter Pindar | Tales of the Hoy, interspersed with song | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Went to the library. Saw in Volume 4th of Nichol's "Select Collections of Poems" a poetical account of the monuments ... | Joseph Hunter | John Nichols | A Select Collection of Poems; with notes (Vol IV) | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he ... | Joseph Evans | Patrick Colquhoun | Treatise of the police of the metrpolis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Marwick advertises again.' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Home's "tragedy of Douglas", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the "Memoirs of L... | Joseph Hunter | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please ... | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Gleanings in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.' | Joseph Hunter | Samuel Foote | The Minor, A Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues... | Joseph Hunter | Elizabeth Robinson Montagu | An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's pl... | Joseph Hunter | David Garrick | Catharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I ha... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas Mathias | A Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, French and Italian in the Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'It was when I was very ill that the article in the "Monthly Rev." was read to me.' | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly,... | Joseph Hunter | James Thomas Kirkman | Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Stri... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the co... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who wi... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Mont... | Joseph Hunter | Joanna Baillie | A Series of Plays In Which It is Attempted to Deli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.' | Joseph Hunter | John Dryden | The Spanish Fryar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the pla... | Joseph Hunter | John Walker | Copper-Plate Magazine | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety o... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Beckmann | A History of Inventions and Discoveries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing ... | William Windham | [n/a] | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read with Cecilia a good deal of "marmion" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.' | William Windham | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have read, since I have been here, about 30 pages in the Bipont edition of "Thucydides", the part, the latter part of... | William Windham | Thucydides | [Two orations] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the pap... | William Windham | [n/a] | Adventurer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c' | William Windham | [n/a] | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, vi... | William Windham | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I looked also one evening into Prideaux's "Connections" [...]But my chief employment was [...]the renewed attempt at ... | William Windham | Humphrey Prideaux | Connections or The Old and New Testament Connected | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of memory"; thought less of the pap... | William Windham | Samuel Rogers | Pleasures of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides' | William Windham | Thucydides | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasure of Memory"; thought less of the pape... | William Windham | [unknown] | Spanish Grammar | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of' | William Windham | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more tal... | William Windham | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Up by nine. Read a little this morning in Lord Bolingbroke's "Study of History". What extreme foppery! Yet what can o... | William Windham | Henry Saint John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Letter on the Study and Use of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked... | William Windham | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon... | William Windham | [unknown] | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little in Thucydides.' | William Windham | Thucydides | [History of Peloponessian War?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Edinburgh Review"; afterwards, for first time, after I know not what interval, a little Greek, viz. Plut. "Phoc... | William Windham | Plutarch | Phocian or Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides' | William Windham | John Milton | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.' | William Windham | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". ... | William Windham | John Stow | The survey of London | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but... | William Windham | William Warburton | The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". ... | William Windham | William Warburton | The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it bit... | William Windham | Jonathan Swift | ['Ode to Athenian Society'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Day of "Gazette" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.' | William Windham | [n/a] | Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little in Arist. "Polit" before I went to bed.' | William Windham | Aristotle | [Politics?] or Ethics and Politics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went up for a short time into library, and read in "Oration of Lysias". [quotes Greek text]' | William Windham | Thucydides | Oration of Lysias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Afterwards, when upstairs, Mrs Montagu's "Letters" which I think very highly of.' | William Windham | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters of the Right Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.' | William Windham | Basil Montagu | ['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and observations | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went on with Basil Montagu, a most shallow reasoner' | William Windham | Basil Montagu | ['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and observations | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read poem of "Talevera" ascribed to Croker.' | William Windham | John Wilson Croker | The Battles of Talevera, a poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Ferris [...] has lent me a treatise of Dr Vincent's on the origin of the Greek verb, which seems to be ingenious. ... | William Windham | William Vincent | The Origination of the Greek Verb | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Ferris, since I have been here, has lent me [...] at the same time Mrs Galando's "Letters", a foolish slander, as ... | William Windham | Catherine Galindo | Mrs Galadano's letter to Mrs Siddons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have do... | Bessie Raynor Parkes | George Henry Lewes | Life of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.' | Henry James | James Anthony Froude | Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart)... | Margaret Oliphant | Horatio Forbes Brown | John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chattin... | Mrs Robinson | [n/a] | Athenaum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823' | Charles Holte Bracebridge | [n/a] | New Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I t... | Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice" | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it ... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I arrived home for tea that evening she asked as if I felt hungry. I replied, yes, and went on reading the paper... | | | Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Some time ago I was convinced (I think through reading advertisements) that it was almost as rich in vitamins as butt... | | | Advertisement for margarine | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.",
and a Times reader likes reading t... | | | Chronicle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.",
and a Times reader likes reading t... | | | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A housewife, 25, says she likes the Chronicle's "spring fashions for women etc.",
and a Times reader likes reading t... | | | Chronicle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'First you read the papers, and then you form your own opinion after reading them and thinking about them. There's alw... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the ... | | unknown | Insanity Bir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the ... | | Ramsey Muir | A Short History of the British Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend' 'When from the heart where sorrow sits/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Impromptu, In Reply | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem] | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'On A Cornelian Heart' OR Childe Harold's Pilgrima | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem] | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Written Beneath...' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mutual Love Our Mutual Flame, inspires our bliss/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Huddersford | Song: Mutual Love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Change will befall, and friend may part But distance only cannot change the heart' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Cowper | An Epistle to Joseph Hill Esq. | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Mary" At fond sixteen my roving Heart Was pierced by love's delightful Dart, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | James Montgomery | Hannah | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening by Charlotte Smith Oh soothing hour, when glowing Day, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Charlotte Smith | Evening | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Three Black Crows Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Byrom | The Three Black Crows | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the Portuguese' 'In moments to delight devoted/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'That Man, I trow, is doubly curs't, Who of the best doth make the worst, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Coombe | Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Wesley ('the Younger') | On the Setting up of Mr Butler's Monument | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines on the Death of a Beloved Wife' 'How without rule are the decrees of God/... Thinks I To Myself' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Edward Nares | Thinks-I-To-Myself: A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comic | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines - To him that will understand them' 'Thou art no more my bosom's Friend;/...' 'Mrs Robinson' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Mary Robinson | Lines To Him Who Will Understand Them | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mark well my shack and seriously attend/...' [6 lines] | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Nathaniel Cotton (The Elder) | Lines under a Sun-Dial in the Churchyard at Thornb | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ode to Peace' 'Come; Peace of Mind, delightful quest/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Cowper | Ode to Peace | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Morning lark ascends on high And with its music greets the Sky... [6 lines]' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Combe | The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Milton | Paradise Lost, Book VIII | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh Happiness! Our beings end and aim,...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, Epistle IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Tear' 'Oh! That the chemist's magic art/ Could crystalise [sic] this sacred treasure/... ['Chloe' of Rogers's text... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Rogers | On A Tear | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tis thy will and I must leave thee, oh! Thou best beloved farewell/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Amelia Opie | Song of A Hindustani Girl [The Poor Hindoo] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'written by Peter Pindar, at Merton, the seat of the late Lord Nelson, onhis catching a nightcap on fire, which his lo... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Peter Pindar | Lines to Lord Nelson | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'O Thou for whom my lyre Istring/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Edward Moore | The Lover and the Friend | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Parting' 'The kiss, dear maid! Thy lip has left, /...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'On Parting' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Mourner' 'The following [erased] pensive lines will accord with the sympathies of the feeling heart: the ... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Amelia Opie | The Mourner: Another on the same subject | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Dying Christian' 'Christianity rears its trophies on the tomb, treasure up then these best of stanzas in the hear... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | James Montgomery | Verses to the Memory of the Late Joseph Brown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Real Beauty' 'The Charms which [erased] blooming beauty shares/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Thomas Fitzgerald | A Song [The Charms Which Blooming Beauty Shows] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Epitaph' 'Part of an inscription for amonument to be erected/by a gentleman to the memory of his lady' 'Farewell my b... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | James Beattie | Epitaph OR [Poems on Several Occasions] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poetry Composed by Llewelyn on the Death of his Greyhound' 'The Spearman [spearmen in original] heard the bugle sound... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Robert Spencer | Beth Gelert, or the Grave of the Greyhound | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest Thy meek submission to they God express'd/..."' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Rogers | The Pleasures of Memory Part II | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"When the last breath, ere nature sink to rest, Thy meek submission to thy God express'd/..."' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Samuel Rogers | The Pleasures of Memory Part II | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'An Evening contemplation in a College; in imitation of Greys Elegy in a country Churchyard "The curfew tolls the hour... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Doncombe | An Evening Contemplation in a College | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love!" - Ah Why That Cruel question ask of Me.' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On Being Asked What Was The "Origin of Love" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Child of Earth" by the Hon. Mrs Norton Fainter Her Slow Step falls from day to day... Otley - February 15th 183... | Benjamin Beanlands | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | The Child of Earth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831' | Benjamin Beanlands | Thomas Moore | The Minstrel Boy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands' | Benjamin Beanlands | [n/a] | Fraser's Magazine For Town and Country | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hope' 'Heber' 'Reflected in the lakes of love, ...' | Beanlands group | Reginald Heber | 'On Heavenly and Earthly Hope' OR ['Hope'] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines on the Death of the Hon. G.C. Canning' 'Though short thy span of Heaven's unimpeached decrees...' | Beanlands group | George Canning | Epitaph: George Charles Canning | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson' | Beanlands group | James Thomson | The Castle of Otranto OR To Fortune | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sonnet on Chillon "Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!, ..."' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sonnet on Chillon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Ain Fire Side' 'O, I hae seen great ones...' >From the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs | Bowly group | Robert Hartley Cromek [editor of vol] | 'My Ain Fireside' OR Remains of Nithsdale and Gall | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the caverns dark recesses...' 'A natural Aeolian Harp discovered in one of the caves in Germany - Beattie's Tour' | Bowly group | William Beattie | Journal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Once more amongst the old gigantic hills/...' 'Foreign Literary Review Janury 1832.' | Bowly group | [n/a] | Foreign Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elegy by Mr J. Hunter Sigh not ye winds as passing oer, The Chambers of the dead ye fly... J.H.' | Bowly group | Anne Home | 'Elegy' OR Poems by Mrs John Hunter | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Late Queen of Russia on seeing Her Bust in the King's Chamber in 1812' 'Thour't gone from us, to weep no more...' | Bowly group | George Croly | The Late Queen of Russia on Seeing Her Bust in the King's chamber in 1812 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Stranger! If e'er thine ardent... Lord of the Isles 4th canto' | Bowly group | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Call it not vain - they do not err, To murmur dirges round the grave.' | Bowly group | Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arthur's seat like a couchant lion of immense size - Salisbury crags, like a huge [belt or] girdle of granite, were d... | Bowly group | Walter Scott | The Heart of Mid-Lothian | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834' | Bowly group | Thomas Campbell | Life of Mrs Siddons | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Sometimes although neither of us was gifted with a voice of much power..." (Captain Clapperton). Landar's Expeditio... | Bowly group | Richard Lander | Records of Captain Clapperton's last expedition | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bonn July 10th 1822. The [Harper?] crossed himself... adapted a popular Rhinish air... Dr Beattie's Tour in 1822' | Bowly group | William Beattie | Journal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Isle of Wight by Anne Maria Sargeant A light so varied bursts upon my view, ...' | Bowly group | Anne Maria Sargent | The Isle of Wight | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From Charlemagne a poem by Lucien Bonaparte.' [followed by English translation, 'copied'] | Bowly group | Lucien Bonaparte | Charlemagne... Poeme Epique | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Call it not vain: - they do not err ... To murmur dirges round his grave". Scott.' | Devereux Bowly | Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct. 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' 'Harp of the North! The Mighty Hand, ... | Devereux Bowly | [n/a] | The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir Walter Scott was buried at Dryburgh... Annual Obituary for 1833.' | Devereux Bowly | [n/a] | The Annual Biography and Obituary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Vision The Night-Mare came to my silent bed... Miss Porter' | Bowly group | Anna Maria Porter | A Vision | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lift up thine eyes afflicted soul, ... James Montgomery' | Bowly group | James Montgomery | 'In Bereavement' AND 'Forget-Me-Not' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Why should my anxious heart repine, ... Byron-1807' [three stanzas first published in Moore's 'Life', 1830] | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | L'Amitie Est L'Amour Sans Ailes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Song of the Bells by Charles Swain "Soft upon the summer air,..."' | Bowly group | Charles Swain | Song of the Bells | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Song of the wives of the King of Cariba... Landar's expedition' | Bowly group | Richard Lander | Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following imperfect translation of a song to the Sovereign of Khiama may serve as a specimen of the poetry of the... | Bowly group | Richard Lander | Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is the voice of the years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds. Ossian! Newstead! Fast falling... | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Elegy on Newstead Abbey | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Home - by J Conder' 'That is not home, where day by day, /...' | Bowly group | Josiah Conder | Home | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Bride Maid The bridal is over, the guests are all gone... Jany 18 1829' | Bowly group | Thomas Haynes Bayly | The Bridesmaid | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Graves of a Household' 'They grew in beauty side by side, ...' 'Mrs Hemans' | Bowly group | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | The Graves of a Household | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If that high World If that high World which has beyond...' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'If That High World' OR Hebrew Melodies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Harp of the North! that mouldering long hath hung, ..' | Bowly group | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On seeing some Autumn Flowers' 'Those few pale autumn flowers, How beautiful they are!...' 'L.G. Feb 1831' | 'L.G.' | Caroline Anne Bowles | Autumn Flowers | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On leaving Newstead Abbey ... >From Newstead Sept 9th 1830' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Elegy on Newstead | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would I were a careless child, ...' 'Early Poems' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Stanzas | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Relics' 'Oh! Wherefore, Lady dost thou price, ... M.A. Browne' | Bowly group | Mary Ann Browne | 'Relics' OR Winter's Wreath | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's bloom...' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Oh! Snatched Away In Beauty's Bloom | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from Byron's Monody on the Death of Sheridan | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Bugle song...' 'Beattie's Tour' | Bowly group | William Beattie | Journal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow, ...' | Bowly group | Thomas Moore | As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821' | 'S.W.' | Thomas Moore | Oh had we some bright little isle | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Voice of the Second Spirit' 'Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains, ...' 'Manfred' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Manfred: A Dramatic Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sun of the Sleepless' 'Sun of the Sleepless! Melancholy Star!...' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sun of the Sleepless | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Autumn departs - but still his mantles fold...' 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles' | Bowly group | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles (Canto One) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thy chains are broken, Africa, be free!...' | Bowly group | James Montgomery | The West Indies OR 'Thy Chains Are Broken' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To His Majesty's Ship Barham, appointed by the King to convey Sir Walter Scott to Naples. By William Sotheby Esq.' | Bowly group | William Sotheby | To His Majesty's Ship Barham | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay ... Hebrew Melodies' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ... On a foreign strand! O Caledonia! Stern and wild, ...' | Bowly group | Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. 4th canto' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold, Canto IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To the Great Pyramid' Mountain of Art! Sublime Mysterious Pile!, ... From the Cheltenham Chronicle Feb 7 1833' | Bowly group | [n/a] | The Cheltenham Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lake of Constance "What beauty flashes from the brow of night, ..." Beattie's Tour' | Bowly group | William Beattie | Journal of A Residence in Germany...in 1822, 1825 | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"' | Bowly group | John Milton | Sonnet OR When I consider how my light is spent | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes,... | Charles Lamb | William Shakespeare | The Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite re... | Charles Lamb | John Milton | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the begin... | Benjamin Shaw | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced al... | Benjamin Shaw | [n/a] | Bible ['the scriptures'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is ... | Benjamin Shaw | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favo... | Hannah Shaw | [n/a] | Bible ['the Scriptures'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & ... | Betty Shaw | [n/a] | Bible ['her Testament'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & ... | Betty Shaw | [Wesley?] | [hymn book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We... | Betty Shaw | Charles Wesley | [Hymn] Come on my Partners in Distress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis... | Benjamin Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think I really read newspapers from a sense of duty to keep in touch with the news of the world. Under certain cond... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Why? Largely to find out so far as possible, what is happening. Sometimes I am so much in despair about the possibili... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read newspapers because of an intense desire to get in touch with the world. A day missed in reading gives one a se... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the surface I should say- because I want to know what is on in the world, but looking deeper into it I think I do ... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short storie... | | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short storie... | | | News of the World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ex shop assistant, about 63. Reads Daily Express, News of the world, Evening News. Chief interest in the short storie... | | | Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads Daily Herald. Likes best and spends most time on the racing and sports page. Considers the other stuff a lot of... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Herald. I don't read much of the general news. The pages I prefer are the items on sport, horse raci... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article
that's exposing anything, and sp... | | | Sunday Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reads Evening News and Sunday Chronicle. Likes best any sort of outspoken article
that's exposing anything, and sp... | | | Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.... | | | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Woman, 55, middle class. Reads Times, Yorkshire Post. Likes best 'Society news and editorials when I agree with them.... | | | Yorkshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dad, who is usually very anxious for his dinner, is often late on Sunday, when he is busy studying the sports pages i... | | | Sunday Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes... | | | Sunday Graphic | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Herald because it gives full account of the news, It is rather inclined to be "partly" and sometimes... | | | Daily Sketch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspaper print. I li... | | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I... | | | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read mainly the papers my parents take and they are not therefore my choice: Daily Mirror, Daily Mail. The former I... | | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, ... | | | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, ... | | | Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, ... | | | People | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I glance through the papers at breakfast time, and give them careful attention before and after lunch. I glance throu... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes I read the paper in the morning train, after a casual glance at breakfast time. More usually I read it lunc... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Breakfast time - that is 8 to 8.30. I rarely pick up the newspaper again during the day, unless there happens to be a... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me describe my reading of the Daily Sketch. I first look and read beneath the front page pictures. The chief news... | | | Daily sketch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I first glance at the personal columns, probably because they are on the front of the paper. Then I turn to the middl... | | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On reading an article by Lord (then Mr) Keynes in The Times on working-class saving, I wrote to him about our survey.... | | John Keynes | article in The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep reading and reading the news, and I can't make out why I'm not more excited. I mean, it's so marvelous, really... | | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I'm a great admirer of her when she sings serious songs though I don't like her in films. There may be somethin... | | | Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading The Case for Federal Union, one of the excellent Penguin Series. The prospect of Union seems to be remoter ev... | | unknown | The case for federal union | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Sir. Robert Vansittart's little book "Black Record". I have found it very interesting. He certain... | | Robert Vansittart | Black Record | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a clas... | Robert White | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold: A Romaunt, Canto IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mothe... | Robert White | [unknown] | 'a penny history' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours ... | Robert White | [unknown] | 'poetry and border ballads' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I rose at 5 O'clock, and going to a small plantation that overlooked the Jed I learned all I ever knew of English Gra... | Robert White | anon | [English Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"' | John Fortescue Aland | Nathaniel Marshall | A defence of our constitution in church and state | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly t... | Henry Harington | Thomas Chatterton | The Rowley poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came ... | Anna Maria Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . Mrs Kynaston, good humouredly ,called out -"I'm sure, Ladies, I am very glad to see you so merry, - ah - one of... | Victoria Kynaston | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [..... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy (Titus Livius) | History of Rome Book XIII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tenny... | Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma Gifford | Alfred Tennyson | [Unknown - Poetry] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"' | John Clare | Samuel Johnson | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there' | John Clare | James Beresford | The Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages ... | John Clare | Thomas de Quincey | The London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by Scott | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find ... | John Clare | John Banton | Excursions of Fancy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]' | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Lectures on the English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | A View of the English Stage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the ar... | John Clare | [n/a] | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Lectures on the English Comic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not... | John Clare | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poems on Various Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read y... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays the... | John Clare | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays' | John Clare | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an o... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Henry The Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | James Maddock | The Florist's Directory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | Elizabeth Kent | Flora Domestica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my jud... | John Clare | [n/a] | Solomon's Song | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather enter... | John Clare | [n/a] | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in Southeys "Wesley"' | John Clare | Robert Southey | The life of Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br... | John Clare | Robert Tannahill | Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertio... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laug... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette... | John Clare | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons (Winter) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful att... | John Clare | [n/a] | Literary Gazette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and fla... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sket... | John Clare | Elizabeth Kent | Sylvan Sketches or a Companion to the Park | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for incl... | John Clare | Thomas Tusser | Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br... | John Clare | Robert Tannahill | Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine i... | John Clare | [n/a] | London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories] | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes resu... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly ... | John Clare | Anonymous | Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they ... | John Clare | John Curtis | British Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have latel... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to rea... | John Clare | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Max... | John Clare | Richard Watson | An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of a... | John Clare | William Hone | Prospectus for 'The Every-Day Book' | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my po... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Scientific Receptacle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for ... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "N... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Hig... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Observer | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a ... | John Clare | unknown | The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was kill... | John Clare | Richard Ayton | Essays and Sketches of Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculia... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldin... | John Clare | G Gilleade | Allworth Abbey; or Christianity Triumphant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the ja... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine' | John Clare | William Hone | The Every-Day Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations ... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention ... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigra... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error ... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent... | Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet... | [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several children, who were reading "Evenings at Home", observed that in the story of Juliet and the fairy order...' [... | [ a group of children known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on th... | | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is a slight attempt at the kind of composition we mean, in a little trial in "Evenings at Home"; and we have se... | [children known to Maria Edgeworth] | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far th... | Maria Edgeworth | Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) | Early Lessons for Children | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the ... | C.S. Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budge... | Elizabeth Hamilton | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I... | Maria Edgeworth | Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'It was the explanation, the perfectly prosaic and positive explanation, of all these wonders which drew them to study... | Philip and Emily Gosse | Matthew Habershon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Juke... | Edmund Gosse | Bishop Edward Elliott | Horae Apocalypticae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading suc... | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the "Epistle to the Hebrews", with very great deliberation, stopping... | Philip Gosse | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous ... | Philip Gosse | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my exce... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [Latin Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his ... | Philip Gosse | Virgil | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at ... | Philip Gosse | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about th... | Edmund Gosse | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following after... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of... | Philip Gosse | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laugh... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Dr. Edward Young | The Last Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Robert Blair | The Grave | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Bishop Beilby Porteus | Death | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'In this caprice, if I may call it so, I think that my Father had before him the fine republican example of "Sandford ... | Philip Gosse | Thomas Day | The History of Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, contai... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [volume of engravings] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. O... | Edmund Gosse | Bailey (ed.) | Etymological Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and e... | William Buckland | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Eu... | Charles Darwin | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [An account of the boy's secret reading, and how his parents only found out when he asked a question about his reading]. | [a boy known to Elizabeth Hamilton] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the work | John Aikin | Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon | Histoire Naturelle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired ... | John Aikin | Dr. Withering | Botanical description of British Plants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of t... | John Aikin | Knox | [on education] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Wee... | James Harvey | [n/a] | The Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Wee... | James Harvey | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of goo... | several Lancashire workman | [n/a] | Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols) | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Francis Bacon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Richard Steele | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Thomas De Quincey | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when rea... | Victoria of Prussia | [unknown] | The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest relig | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one] | William Whewell | Charles Babbage | Ninth Bridgewater Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument. | William Whewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Natural and Revealed eligion to the Con | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid... | Charles Kingsley | John Aikin | Evenings at home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, und... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at home | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament,... | Mary Birch | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern... | Mary Birch | Hannah More | Memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and o | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern ... | Mary Birch | [n/a] | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1800-1849 | 'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern... | Mary Birch | [n/a] | The Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 5 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, wi... | John Birch | John Locke | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at ... | | George Dodd | Curiosities of Industry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt ... | Lucy Aikin | Alexander von Humboldt | Personal Narrative of Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikin to her niece Sue, dated Nov.17, 18..?: Aikin has been reading Mackintosh, and comments on the s... | Lucy Aikin | Sir J. Mackintosh | [a text on ethical philosophy] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Pr... | Lucy Aikin | Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "P... | Martha Aikin | Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost... | Thomas Carlyle | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost... | Thomas Carlyle | Eaton Stannard Barrett | Six Weeks at Long's | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '...he proclaimed himself a disciple of Rousseau. But he can hardly have followed the teaching of "Emile" very closely... | | Jeans-Jaques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 'for each there had been no poet later than Byron...' | Philip and Emily Gosse | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succes... | Philip and Emily Gosse | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley Novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular wr... | Philip Gosse | Rev. George Croly | Salathiel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. | Frances Hamilton | R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester) | The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition.
'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it. | Frances Hamilton | John Mead | [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | A Letter to Earl Stanhope | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes.
'Vol 2 Agamemnon.
N.B. A ... | Frances Hamilton | Aeschylus | The Tragedies of Aeschylus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby.
'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for... | Frances Hamilton | Rev J Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France:
'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-so... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at time... | Thomas Carlyle | John Scott | 'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The London Magazine' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo... | [unknown student] anon | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo... | [unknown student] anon | | Blackwood's magazine | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained ... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Christian World | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant di... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [volume about theological debate] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing o... | Edwin Muir | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in... | Edwin Muir | John Howie | The Scots Worthies | Print: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [school books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The People's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The People's Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Christian Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | Sunday Stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [story] | Print: Unknown |
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1900-1945 | 'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita... | Edwin Muir | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Suther... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Police News | Print: Newspaper |
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1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Boy's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | Chums | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | [School history book] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Casabianca | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Excelsior | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | John Keats | The Eve of Saint Agnes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Matthew Arnold | Tristram and Iseult | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | Matthew Arnold | [selection of poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but ... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [book on Wallace and Bruce] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac is... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands] | Print: Serial / periodical, almanac |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | Robert Michael Ballantyne | Hudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.' | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l... | Joseph Stamper | Edward L. Wheeler | Deadwood Dick | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Bronco Bill | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Jack Wright | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Pliny the Younger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Gold... | Norman Nicholson | John Ruskin | King of the Golden River | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm... | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | History of the World War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm... | John Slater | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.' | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very fe... | Norman Nicholson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment... | Walter Wilson | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Walter Wilson | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Wilson introduced us to another author - Victor Hugo... in 1925, "Les Miserables" gripped us even more than "Pickw... | Walter Wilson | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frank... | Norman Nicholson | D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Sketch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Woman's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud [and other poems?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | Edgar Allan Poe | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | [detective stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | [early novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just n... | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic str... | | [n/a] | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!' | Norman Nicholson | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | Dictionary of National Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Milton | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Geoffery Chaucer | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Lamb | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Sir Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Wordsworth | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | [nature and the countryside] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Hudson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Jefferies | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Gilbert White | [natural history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | [books on birds, animals, snakes, trees] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Joseph Conrad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Eric Linklater | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | John Jeffrey Farnol | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Jane Austen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny boo... | family of Rose Gamble | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie... | Thomas A. Jackson | Robert Blatchford | Merrie England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Daniel Defoe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h... | Thomas A. Jackson | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. ... | Thomas A. Jackson | [n/a] | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of ... | Thomas A. Jackson | [n/a] | Cassells Illustrated History of England | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other... | Thomas A. Jackson | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | | Walter Scott | Waverley Novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | | William Makepeace Thackeray | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Joseph Addison | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Walter Scott | Waverley Novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Fennimore Cooper | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Captain Marryatt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ... | Thomas A. Jackson | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a... | Thomas A. Jackson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a... | Thomas A. Jackson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Warren Hastings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in... | Thomas A. Jackson | George Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in... | Thomas A. Jackson | John Keble | The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in... | Thomas A. Jackson | Jeremy Taylor | Holy Living | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in... | Thomas A. Jackson | Jeremy Taylor | Holy Dying | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting exciteme... | Thomas A. Jackson | Edmund Spenser | Faery Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's "hundred" -George Henry Lewes's "Biographical Hist... | Thomas A. Jackson | George Henry Lewes | Biographical History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Samuel Daniel | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | [probably] Isaac Hawkins Browne | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Giles Fletcher | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Phineas Fletcher | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Ben Jonson | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | William Drummond | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | John Donne | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Abraham Cowley | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | John Milton | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Samuel Butler | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... | | [n/a] | Girls' Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... | | [n/a] | Chips | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... | | [n/a] | Comic Cuts | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... | | [n/a] | Lot o' Fun | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... | | [n/a] | Butterfly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the flo... | Jack Common | [n/a] | [comic paper] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got w... | Jack Common | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first ed... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Aubuisson | Traite de geognoise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a com... | John Clare | Daniel Fenning | The universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy guide to the English Language. Containing I Tables of Words [...] V Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England [...] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant ... | Thomas Carlyle | Joanna Baillie | Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and t... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Life of Pascal | Manuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | John Carr | Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Sir Charles William Pasley | Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Claudius Buchanan | Christian Researches in Asia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Jane Austen | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Mrs Digweed | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Papillon Family | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Eleanor Papillon | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | John Bigland | System of Geography and History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | John Barrow (ed.) | Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | Sir George Steuart Mackenzie | Travels in Iceland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of "Paradise lost"' | Albert Battiscombe | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Worked for an hour to day at French and read some Grecian History, The latter is certainly rather dry.' | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmit... | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmit... | Albert Battiscombe | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been working at French & reading "History of Greece"' | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot work this weather it is too hot, I have read a chapter of the "History of Greece" to day and that is all.' | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newco... | Albert Battiscombe | William Thackeray | The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newco... | Albert Battiscombe | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | Stuart of Dunleath. A story of the present time | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newco... | Albert Battiscombe | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby; or, The new generation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading the "English humourists" by Thackeray' | Albert Battiscombe | William Thackeray | The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Moore | The Epicurean. A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae... | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Moore | Paradise and the Peri | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Penny Dreadfuls | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a... | Joseph Stamper | Richard Church | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Fri... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | How to make friends and influence people | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" ... | Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | [lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" ... | Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | Pneumatics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mrs Henry Wood | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Polly Stamper | [n/a] | The Family Storyteller | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ... | Joseph Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual l... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [notice] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read ... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I coul... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [notice] | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When... | Joseph Stamper | Charles Henry Ross | Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Police News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Police Budget | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Sketchy Bits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Photo Bits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh... | Joseph Stamper | Edward L. Wheeler | Deadwood Dick | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | [n/a] | Heartsease Library | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Heartsease Library | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | The Channings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Joseph Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r... | Polly Stamper | Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood | The Channings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | Henry Cockton | The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | [unknown] | Sylvestre Sound | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | [unknown] | Somnambulist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... | | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set ... | Jane Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F... | Cassandra Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her ... | Jane Austen | Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel | published letter about the status of her marriage to the Prince of Wales | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did... | Jane Austen | | Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths section | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who w... | Lady Robert Kerr | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him... | Warren Hastings | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has ... | Jane Austen | John Bigland | Letters on the Modern History and Political Aspect of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it,... | Jane Austen | William Cowper | Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in... | Jane Austen | | Acts 27:44 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-w... | Jane Austen | Mary Brunton | Self Control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he prob... | Jane Austen | George Crabbe | preface to The Borough | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves an... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came t... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Young People's First Book of Trees | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...' | iron moulders | [n/a] | The Racing Specialist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...' | iron moulders | [n/a] | Football Edition | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Strand Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Windsor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | Pearson's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | The Story of the Unknown Church | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backwards | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished' | Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would su... | Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | [book on pneumatics] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the forenoon read Liardets book on Seamanship, so as to prepare myself for the duties of 1st Lieut which I expect ... | Albert Battiscombe | Francis Liardet | Professional Recollections on points of Seamanship, Discipline, etc. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Capn Boyds book on seamanship, there is a great deal to be picked up from it, but of course some things there... | Albert Battiscombe | John MacNeill Boyd | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.'
| Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Le Roi des Montagnes" by Ed About'
| Albert Battiscombe | About Edmond | Le roi des Montagnes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time'
| Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting'
| Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Macauleys "history of England", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Speeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. corrected by himself .. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading some French books lately viz, "Mathilde" par Eugene Sue and "Les mariages de paris" par Edmond Ab... | Albert Battiscombe | Eugene Sue | Mathilde ou les Memoires d'une jeune femme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading some French books lately viz, "Mathilde" par Eugene Sue and "Les mariages de paris" par Edmond Ab... | Albert Battiscombe | Edmond About | Les mariages de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr ... | Albert Battiscombe | Eug?ne Scribe | Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds: com?die en 1 acte, m?l?e de vaudevilles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading lately "Les memoires d'un colonel d'Husserds" and "La petite Soeur" two little vaudevilles by Mr ... | Albert Battiscombe | Eug?ne Scribe | La Petite soeur, com?die vaudeville en 1 acte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -' | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Been reading Shakespeare's plays. viz "Measure for Measure" "Much Ado About Nothing" -' | Albert Battiscombe | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read... | Albert Battiscombe | Frances Trollope | The Lottery of Marriage. A novel. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.' | Albert Battiscombe | Alexandre Dumas | Antonine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with... | Joseph Hunter | [n/a] | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand... | Joseph Stamper | [anon] | Guy's Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a po... | Joseph Stamper | [n/a] | [Penny Poets] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...' | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" ... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | Quain's Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One ... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [Astronomy and spectrum analysis] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks w... | Joseph Stamper | [unknown] | [Astronomy and spectrum analysis] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so ... | Albert Battiscombe | Edward Hamley | Lady Lee's Widowhood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Les filles des platre" by M. Xavier de Montepin it is like the generality of French Novels, and does not... | Albert Battiscombe | Xavier Aymon de, Count Montepin | Les Filles de platre. Les trois debuts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Kelly"s book on Victoria; it is very interesting tho rather coarse'
| Albert Battiscombe | William Kelly | Life in Victoria, or, Victoria in 1853 and Victoria in 1858 : showing the march of improvement made by the colony within those periods, in town and country, cities and diggings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now reading a history of England by Douglas Hamilton, it seems to be very well written'
| Albert Battiscombe | William Douglas Hamilton | Outlines of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As I expect a heap of books from England, I am having two book shelves put up in my cabin. I am afraid it will darken... | Albert Battiscombe | William Douglas Hamilton | Outlines of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c' | Albert Battiscombe | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced work again to day in earnest - read some of the [following page missing]'
| Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow mo... | Albert Battiscombe | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels a... | Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.' | Albert Battiscombe | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hobbies. Mentioned 10 times. Twice as normal, three times increased (walking, stamp collecting, reading). One "war ou... | | A.E. Housman | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marsh came across a "Synopsis" and started reading an article on Bacon. At last he flung it aside and said, "It seems... | | | Synopsis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | "If the foreman and checker were on good terms, then the checker could leave early. If not, he had to stay, biting his... | | | Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposi... | Samuel Pepys | John Pepys | [speech] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug... | Samuel Pepys | John Pepys | [speech] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659 | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".' | Elizabeth Pepys | Martin le Roy de Gomberville | Polexandre | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger p... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Book of Tobit | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de Roma | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and ... | Samuel Pepys | Roger L'Estrange [? probably] | A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established in this nation, before the late war. In a humble address to his Excellency, General Monck | |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Pre... | | Paul Scarron | The Fruitless Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came las... | Samuel Pepys | [Playford] | Select ayres and dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This morning the King's proclamacion against drinking, swearing and debauchery was read to our ships' companies in th... | Samuel Pepys | [King] [Charles II] | A proclamation against debauched and profane persons, who, on pretence of regard to the King, revile and threaten others, or spend their time in taverns and tipping houses, drinking his health | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Common Prayer Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've been reading about miners' food difficulties. Isn't it disgusting-we starve the men who do one of the most impor... | | unknown | report on miners' conditions | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't really believe in any superstitions. Sitting down 13 at a table would never worry me in the slightest. Howeve... | | unknown | horoscope | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I suppose I retained this view for about nine months. My thoughts have now radically changed, and this is due in a ma... | | Robert Vansittart | Black Record | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.' | Wayneman Birch | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.' | Samuel Pepys | John Speed | A prospect of the most famous parts of the world | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me)... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Scarron | The Fruitlesse Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Scarron | The Fruitlesse Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; bu... | Samuel Pepys | John Dauncey | The history of the thrice illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s.... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Masse Book | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [law book?] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfac... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so a... | Samuel Pepys | [John] [Phillips?] | Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 1661 | Print: almanac |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so af... | Samuel Pepys | John Tatham | The Rump, or The mirror of the late times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - ... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after tha... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Randolph | Cornelianum Dolium | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madeleine de Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 a... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I ... | | unknown | letter about the post-war world | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's funny isn't it. Looks as if they want to get him out of the way. He's a bit too forward looking for them I think... | | Hannen Swaffer | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'About twenty people gathered and sat on chairs - some in meditation, others obviously praying. At first I thought thi... | | | Peace News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was just reading how he was going to attack Ireland in the next five days. I don't like the sound of that., . . . I... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'He works from 2 to 10,and about 9 .he always goes to the lavatory. He was sitting there reading "Aero" when the siren... | | Unknown | Captain Aero Comic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every night when I go home I swear there are not more than three English people on the bus. The rudeness of them. A w... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A fortnight in London in June-July 1940, recuperating from Oxford Univ. Finals, I most clearly remember summer evenin... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and stud... | | Lindoe | astrology books / articles | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In reading the whole thing, I get a slight feeling of "leaning about" from question to question of the questionnaire.... | | | clothes rationing questionnaire | Print: questionnaire |
| 1900-1945 | 'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose the... | | unknown | article about Oswald Mosley | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is ... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me... | Jane Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me... | James Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is... | Jane Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.' | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1600-1699 | 'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".' | Samuel Pepys | Francis Osborne | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".' | Samuel Pepys | Emanuel Tesauro | Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | ''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for... | anon | [unknown] | A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purpose | Print: Handbill |
| 1600-1699 | 'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [French Romances] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and rea... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Good books] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then home - I to read.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then to reading and at night to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedi... | Samuel Pepys | John Smith | The sea-man's grammar | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | The Kingdomes Intelligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'And then I up to my chamber to read.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him read... | Sir William Coventry | Thomas Cross | Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended m... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Middleton | The Spanish Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present ti... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Pepys | The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles ... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Pepys | The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely b... | Samuel Pepys | Richard Hooker | Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Welli... | John Cole | Ian Bridges | History of Northamptonshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Welli... | John Cole | J.D. Parry | History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[ishop]. Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in th... | John Cole | Lancelot Andrewes | Devotions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Jacob Bryant | On the plagues of Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | John Tillotson | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Edmaston | Sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read November in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l... | John Cole | J.S. Piercy | History of Retford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l... | John Cole | Thomas Benick | History of British Birds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l... | John Cole | John Hornsey | English Exercises, orthographical and grammatical in two parts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.' | John Cole | unknown | [Account of the Games in the Colosseum at Rome] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a... | John Cole | unknown | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.' | John Cole | unknown | St Limerick's Bells | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.' | John Cole | unknown | The word we have not seen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.' | John Cole | William Pulleyn | Etymological Compendium for Maps | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Lancelot Andrewes | Prayers | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Bishop Moore | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Except sometimes when my wife sits on the arm of my chair when I am reading, and proceeds to perform on my own nails,... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is about to go when he sees a copy of Bombers Moon by Negley Farson (8/6?). He picks it up to look at it. It inter... | | Negley Farson | Bombers Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... only paper I read is the New Statesman once a week, this gives me condensed news of the week, is worth reading be... | | | New Stateman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more-not so much of the paper as light books and escapist stuff. I listen to the radio about the same.' | | unknown | [light books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more as I spend more time at home. Also I read fewer political works and more fiction.'
| | unknown | [light books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... | | unknown | [light reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... | | | The New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography... | | | Nation | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I now very rarely go out in the evening, mainly on account of wife and family; spend more time reading and playing in... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In common with thousands of other people I have been doing knitting during the raids. In normal times I never have ti... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | Phyllis Bottome | The Mortal Storm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes , I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The... | | G.E.R. Gedye | Fallen Bastions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | | Daily Worker | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | | Tribune | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | | The New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | '...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.' | Samuel Pepys | Francis Osborne | Advice to a son | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and all the day, as I was at leisure, I did read in Fuller's "Holy Warr" (which I have of late bought) and did try to... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The historie of the holy warr | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [chancery Bill drawn against Trice] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Hobbes | Of libertie and necessitie | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown- little but shrewd piece] | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Camb... | Samuel Pepys | William Camden | Britannia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am gla... | Samuel Pepys | T Trice | [answer to Pepys's bill] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogethe... | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogethe... | Samuel Pepys | Hugo Grotius | Mare Liberum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have no... | Jane Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [s... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park (3rd volume) | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [it... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park (last half of last volume) | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'In addition to their [Mr and Mrs Cooke's] standing claims on me, they admire Mansfield Park exceedingly. Mr Cooke sa... | Mr and Mrs Cooke | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Pri... | [Miss] Dusautoy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished a... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are al... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to ... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'. | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does n... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [e... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may he... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough a... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | [Poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.' | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great ... | Jane Austen | Anna Lefroy | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivi... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Anna Lefroy | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.' | John Murray | Jane Austen | Emma | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclinati... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have re... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to ... | Jane Austen | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott [anon] | review of Emma | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am part... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward is writing a Novel - we have all heard what he has written - it is extremely clever; written with great ease &... | Jane Austen | James Edward Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Seldon | Mare Clausum | |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. Charles | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then to Pauls churchyard, and there I met with Dr: Fullers "Englands worthys" - the first time that I ever saw it; an... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | History of the worthies of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My cold being increased, I stayed home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and re... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | History of the worthies of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | The Kingdomes Intelligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which ... | Samuel Pepys | John Graunt | Natural and political observations... made upon the bills of mortality | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had... | Samuel Pepys | Fields | [petition] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had... | Sir William Penn | Fields | [petition] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | '...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" w... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Bayly | Herba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out of the stone chamber belonging to Newgate, being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally devine, whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by divinity | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.' | Samuel Pepys | Cicero | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased w... | Samuel Pepys | John Holland | [discourse on Naval administration] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely ... | Samuel Pepys | Tobias Gentleman | Englands way to win wealth... with a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of His Majesties seas by the Hollanders | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of... | Samuel Pepys | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of... | Elizabeth Pepys | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | George Chapman | Bussy D'Ambois | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time ... | Samuel Pepys | Playford | Dancing Master OR English Dancing Master | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Holland | [discourse on Naval administration] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I a... | Samuel Pepys | John Holland | [second discourse on Naval administration] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a pl... | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | A wife for a month | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there read... | Samuel Pepys | [anon] | A treatise of taxes and contributions | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote a... | Samuel Pepys | John Heydon | Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote a... | John Creed | John Heydon | Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle... | Samuel Pepys | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle... | Elizabeth Pepys | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaw... | John Cole | unknown | Announcements of Lectures on Geology | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that M... | John Cole | Dovaston | [article on Thomas Bewick] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of... | John Cole | Robert Benick | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Rhind | Studies in Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.' | John Cole | Rhind | Natural History of the Stickleback | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.' | John Cole | unknown | [Account of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read one of Dr Tottie's Sermons "On the resurrection".' | John Cole | Dr Tottie | Sermon 'On the resurrection' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eve. We read one of Hervey's "The minstry of reconciliation" - again.' | John Cole | Hervey | The Minstry of Reconciliation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.' | John Cole | Parker | [Collection of Carols] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I hardly read at all - I read the News Chronicle, it's all I have time for.' | | | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I never buy books, I only read the "Wizard".' | | | Wizard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only read weekly magazines, like the "Woman". I prefer sewing and knitting.' | | | The Woman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' | | | ration books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only books I have the opportunity of reading are ration and points books.' | | | points books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started to read a book called "Ishtar". It's not very good but I was very vague as to who Ishtar was - apparently t... | | E S Stevens | Ishtar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Started to read "Disgrace Abounding" by Douglas Reed. He has got a bee in his bonnet about the Jews. Very insidious b... | | Douglas Reed | Disgrace Abounding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading, MacNeice "Autumm Journal". I enjoyed it very much and think it good. A. Werth, "Moscow '41". Very good - cle... | | Louis MacNeice | Autumm Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and inte... | | H V Morton | I James Blunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My library book now is "Byron in Italy" by Peter Quennell. I have not read much of Byron's poetry for many, many year... | | Peter Quennell | Byron in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I prefer to go as soon as I can to the fountainhead, and to read, say, "Mein Kampf," to reading about Hitler. Such bo... | | Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such e... | | unknown | [cheap editions of books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o... | | Brandon | Night club Murder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o... | | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o... | | Deeping | Shabby Summer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I w... | | Ruby M Ayres | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I like books by Ruby M Ayres and Anne Duffield. The young lady usually chooses the books for me - she knows what I w... | | Anne Duffield | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like light reading - something to occupy my mind so that I can knit and read at the same time - something that I c... | | unknown | [light reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't mind any author, so long as it's a genuine western story. I always read purely western, because they're more ... | | unknown | [western stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without wa... | | Ian Hay | Night on Wheels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm not keen to read books dealing with the current situation. War's grim enough, I prefer to choose books without wa... | | E M Delafield | The Diary of a Provincial Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to... | | unknown | [detective fiction] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "... | | unknown | ["love" stories] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great ple... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Sea Manuscript] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment... | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment... | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for ... | Samuel Pepys | George Bate | Elenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secunda | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only te... | Samuel Pepys | King Charles II | His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, February the 18th, 1662 | |
| 1600-1699 | 'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Co... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Writ] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [playbill] | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morni... | Samuel Pepys | John Brown | The use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or square | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Spanish books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed.... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a... | | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a... | | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Dec... | | Evelyn Waugh | Decline and Fall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Dec... | | Evelyn Waugh | Vile Bodies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be.... | Katherine Mansfield | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I'm reading books [of] what I call Geography plus books that give great insight in [to] different places. I'... | | Gerald Samson | Warning Light of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I've got interested in Spiritualism. I've read one book about it, I thought it was a lot of rubbish. That was ... | | Arthur Findlay | The Unfolding Universe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I am reading] 'An endeavour to see whether or not war can sort of be got under control for the future. (Freud; War & ... | | Sigmund Freud | War and death | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm interested in Russia and want to know all about socialism. (Russia, Friend or Foe: Sloan)' | | Pat Sloan | Russia, Friend or Foe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I thought it would be interesting to me in my work (Salesmanship - Hover)' | | Hover | Salesmanship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appealed to me - I like books about the country and farms and country life in general. (Lost Fields: McLaverty)' | | Michael McLaverty | Lost Fields | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [I am reading this] 'Because I've got a ten week's old baby. (Practical Psychology: Allen)' | | Allen | Practical Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm taking up nursing, and I thought I would get a good inside knowledge from a book of this kind. (Hospital Nurse: S... | | Doreen Swinburne | Hospital Nurse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | All's Well that Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.' | Katherine Mansfield | W.J.D. | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for... | | unknown | synopsis of book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | | [newspapers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as h... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've nearly finished "World's End" by Sinclair Lewis. It's a grand book. I started it because I enjoyed 'Between Two ... | | Sinclair Lewis | World's End | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading now "Time is the Spur". No, I don't know whom it is by. I was recommended to it by a friend, It's very g... | | unknown | Time is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | various | The Oxford English Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read various types of novels. Some books give long involved descriptions. I don't mind a little of that, but in add... | | Bessie Myers | Escape | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | | The story of Jonah and the Whale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | Nettle Danger | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | The Sons and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | The Amazing Summer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time... | | Phillip Gibbs | Through the Dark Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't be bothered reading heavy stuff. I don't seem able to concentrate for long. I like books of the romantic and ... | | Pearl Buck | The Home Divided | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like thrillers and mysteries and oriental tales. Anything mystery which has nothing whatever to do with the war. I ... | | P.G. Wodehouse | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was ... | | Ernest Hemingway | For whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Osborne | Advice to his son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was ... | | Thorne Smith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My children like to get hold of Charteris, the Saint Stories, you know. But it's a funny thing we can't get any of hi... | | Leslie Charteris | Saint stories | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Naomi Jacobs | [early works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Navy precedents | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Richard Llewellyn | How Green was My Valley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Faith Baldwin | Conflict | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detecti... | | Dorothy Conyer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comission... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Richard Llewellyn | How Green was My Valley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Rachel Field | All this and Heaven Too | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Brett Young | Portrait of a Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Georgette Heyer | Royal Escape | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Georgette Heyer | Spanish Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | Frankau | Royal Regiment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All... | | unknown | Elizabeth of Bohemia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought... | Samuel Pepys | John Brown | Description and use of the carpenter's rule | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read one book since the war "A Yank At Oxford". I liked that.....' | | John Monk Saunders | A Yank at Oxford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".' | | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".' | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like autobiography and I love a good thriller - I can't bear funny books other than Stephen Leacock. I don't like a... | | Stephen Leacock | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Archibald Joseph Cronin | The Stars Looked Down | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet diffe... | | unknown | [books about China and Russia] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodo... | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I despise all these novels and so on. I'm a retired Civil Servant and I chiefly read the Times, politics and things o... | | | The Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [I read] 'Oh, anything political - I'm mad about politics -you know, India today and all that sort of thing and all th... | | H. Rathbone | What Next in Germany | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discou... | Samuel Pepys | James Ussher | A body of divinitie | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Kingdom Intelligence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of quality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be in... | | unknown | [biography and travel] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | Negley Farson | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | W.M. Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | John Galsworthy | Forsyte Saga | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. ... | | unknown | Heavenly Trouser | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | unknown | My Son Absalom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | Peter Fleming | News from Tartary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | unknown | [Travel books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | John Blunt | unkown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seem... | | unknown | Happy World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.' | | H Williamson | Norfolk Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of b... | | Eric Knight | This Above All | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dubliners, James Joyce. First time I read it I was not much impressed, but on reading them again I found much that I ... | | James Joyce | Dubliners | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social ... | | unknown | [political and social books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spen... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since the war began I have read less, chiefly because I am more tired and have less time. I never read until bed-time... | | unknown | [lighter literature] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Auste... | | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning.' | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest piece... | | D H Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest piece... | | D H Lawrence | The Man Who Died | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot st... | | D H Lawrence | Red Trousers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays
are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.' | | Aldous Huxley | Ends and Means | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.' | | Aldous Huxley | Brave new world | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed' | Samuel Pepys | Aesop | Aesop's Fables | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Fortrey | Englands interest and improvement consisting in the increase of...trade [or] Short notes and observations drawn from the present decaying condition of this kingdom in point of trade | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; ... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Balth. Gerbier | Counsel and advise to all builders; for the choice of their surveyours... Together with several epistles to eminent persons, who may be concerned in building | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five houres adventures"; which though I have seen it twice,... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Tuck | The Adventures of five houres | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excel... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Tuck | The Adventures of five houres | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Statute book] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to read a little;' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best... | Samuel Pepys | [Samuel] [Newman] | A concordance to the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making... | Will Hewer | [unknown] | Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the ... | Will Hewer | [unknown] | Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my ... | Samuel Pepys | William Lily | A short introduction of grammar... of the Latine tongue | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.' | Will Hewer | [unknown] | Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the mo... | Samuel Pepys | Cicero | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.' | Will Hewer | [unknown] | Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lat... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [books on timber measuring and tides] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a... | Samuel Pepys | [Thomas] [Southland] | Love a la mode | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more ... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortune | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the ... | Will Hewer | [unknown] | Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".' | Samuel Pepys | Ben Johnson | Devil is an Asse | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician ... | Samuel Pepys | Alexander Green | The Politician cheated | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an h... | Samuel Pepys | Sir John Birkenhead | Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an h... | Henry Moore | Sir John Birkenhead | Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night f... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and at my office reading my vowes;' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s... | Will Hewer | [unknown] | Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s... | John Pepys | [n/a] | [Greek Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We took our deck chairs into the garden and from 3 o' clock until 3.20 I read the paper whilst my wife knitted. At 3.... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-th... | | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read a newspaper chiefly from a sense of shame, because I dislike being ill-informed, and I am a social creature, a... | | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I look through a newspaper very much in the mood in which I go out for a stroll or light a cigarette by the front doo... | | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting...... | | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Daily Express because I like its human interest, the Telegraph because of its fairly accurate reporting...... | | | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I prefer the Daily Telegraph because I feel that the news is more genuine than the other daily newspapers print. I li... | | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I consider the News Chronicle as unbiassed as any of the dailies, and, having the habit of reading that paper, do not... | | | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and fath... | | | Sunday Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and fath... | | | People | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I begin at the back page of the Daily Mail, and read straight through till I come to the front. I don't know why I do... | | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris". But in the St... | | | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Monday, January 15, saw an Evening Standard placard with the words, "Hitler Will March, says Paris" But in the Sta... | | | Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's lo... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Will Hewer | [piece of Latin, practice translation probably] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she wa... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown - recipes] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home ... | Samuel Pepys | [Robert] [Wild] | Iter boreale | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's w... | Samuel Pepys | [Robert] [L'Estrange] | The Intelligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [proclamation] | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there sea... | Samuel Pepys | John Day | [Will] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there sea... | Samuel Pepys | Beatrice Day | [Will] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a p... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys] | Print: Handbill |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night fell to reading in the "Church History" of Fullers, and perticularly Cranmers letter to Queen Elizabeth, whi... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | Church-History | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a foo... | Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] | [unknown] | [anatomy of the body] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hast... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | Church History | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper... | Samuel Pepys | John Barclay | Argenis | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.' | maids of Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", w... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and S... | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Arithmetic books] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed' | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which... | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in ... | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscov... | Samuel Pepys | Adam Olearius | The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday;... | Samuel Pepys | Angelo Corraro | Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Angelo Corraro | Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by ... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | [bill advertising cockfight] | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [on the globes] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the begi... | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collection | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a... | Samuel Pepys | John Rusthworth | Historical Collection | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very pretti... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books an... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Spanish books] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, reading all the way a good book;' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [lecture on the globes] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among other... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Love a Cheate | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ... | Samuel Pepys | J Blaeu | Theatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipuarum mundi theatrum quintum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ... | Samuel Pepys | Antonius Sanderus | Flandria Illustrata | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way ... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Davenant | The first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by declamations and music, after the manner of the ancients | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty... | Samuel Pepys | Charles Cotton | Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Man, 35, Jew. Entered at 6.10. Walked towards Daily Herald. A Cockney was reading it, Jew held one side of paper and ... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' ... | Geoffrey Gorer | Lewis Goldings | Jewish Problem | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Line with Two French soldiers. The chief is reading a letter from his mother: "How are you getting on?" Air... | | | letter from his mother | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to... | | Lodge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to... | | Crookes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to... | | J A Findlay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but pract... | Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | The Black Veil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.? | Charles Dickens | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?I see honorable mention of myself, and Mr. Pickwick?s politics, in Fraser this month. They consider Mr. P a decided W... | Charles Dickens | | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one m... | Charles Dickens | unknown | submissions to Bentley's Miscellany | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.? | Charles Dickens | Richard Bentley | Prospectus for Bentley?s Miscellany | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make no... | Charles Dickens | John Gideon Millingen | The Portrait Gallery | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the ... | James Hocker | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly London News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and wa... | Charles Dickens | Henry Fielding | The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.? | Charles Dickens | | Poor Law Bill | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?My dear Sir,
I have looked over Uncle Sam, and am still of the opinion I originally formed, that we could not use ... | Charles Dickens | G.P. Payne | Uncle Sam's Peculiarities | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?My dear Sir,
I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself th... | Charles Dickens | Zschokke | Blue Wonder | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?My dear Sir,
I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself th... | Charles Dickens | Matthew Barker | Nights at Sea | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess consider... | Charles Dickens | Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon | [articles] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the l... | Charles Dickens | | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the l... | Charles Dickens | B.W. Proctor | 'The Sea' | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to... | J. Middleton Murry | Anton Chekhov | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands.... | Thomas Okey | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands.... | Okey family, parents and grandparents of Thomas Okey | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, ... | Thomas Okey | [n/a] | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, ... | Thomas Okey | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to g... | Thomas Okey | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny... | Thomas Okey | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [Thomas Peckett] [Prest] | Sweeney Todd the Barber | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [unknown] | Dick Turpin | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [unknown] | Spring-heeled Jack | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [unknown] | Claude Duval | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [unknown] | Edith the Captive | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [unknown] | Edith Heron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | [n/a] | Boys of England | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | Bracebridge Hemyng | Jack Harkaway | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My off... | university undergraduates | [n/a] | Pink 'Un | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely;both by daily reading of chapters,after the approved but mischievous me... | Harriet Martineau | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "A work of Dr Carpenter's,begun but never finished,called "Notes and Observations on the Gospel history", which his ca... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Carpenter | Notes and Observations on the Gospel History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Dr Carpenter was inclined also to the study of philosophy,and wrote on it,-on mental and moral philosophy;and this wa... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Carpenter | Articles: Mental and Moral Philosophy & Systemic Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "It was while reading Mr Kendrick's translation from the German of 'Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem',with which I was ... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Kendrick | Translation of 'Helons Pilgrimage from Jerusalem' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of ... | Samuel Pepys | John Wells | [manuscript on ship building] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spe... | Samuel Pepys | John Spencer | A discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [books about the Navy] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Ross,
Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency ... | Charles Dickens | Charles Ross | The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Pr... | Charles Dickens | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is... | Charles Dickens | Wilks | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for... | Charles Dickens | Daniel Defoe | The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I... | Charles Dickens | George Cox | [MS verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam,
I have read the paper you were kind enough to forward to me, and very much regret that I cannot avail myself ... | Charles Dickens | Miss Reynolds | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Dear Sir,
As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my... | Charles Dickens | Thomas Gaspey | The Grand Juror | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I... | Charles Dickens | Grantley Berkely | Chariot versus coach | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir
I very much regret that your note has so long remained unanswered. It was put aside among some answered letters,... | Charles Dickens | Edward Oliver | unknown | Manuscript: Sheet, UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr. Sir.
Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a sli... | Charles Dickens | John Forster | [works] | Print: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we ha... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [contract] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted' | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [contract] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted' | Mr Andrews | Samuel Pepys | [contract] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Mic... | Samuel Pepys | Henry Power | Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content' | Samuel Pepys | Henry Power | Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscop... | Samuel Pepys | Henry Power | Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ing... | Samuel Pepys | Sir John Sucklings | Aglaura | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palat... | Samuel Pepys | William Davenant | The Siege of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methin... | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | The Custome of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play' | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | The mad lover | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain... | Samuel Pepys | [Captain] [Fisher?] | [papers] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way... | Samuel Pepys | John Herne | The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all ... | Samuel Pepys | John Herne | The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to s... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.' | Samuel Pepys | Ben Jonson | Cateline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Arthur recalls that he could not read "properly" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna ... | Anna Symons | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thoug... | Arthur Symons | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Arthur became interested in "humanity" when he discovered George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel "Lavengro" (185... | Arthur Symons | George Borrow | Lavengro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.' | [Mrs] Cole | Lindley Murray | Power of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".' | John Cole | Macdiarmid | Sketches of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reader, how is our family circle this evening? I will tell you. We are seated around a circular table. On my right is... | WL Cole | Dick | Christian philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devo... | Elizabeth Marshall | | The Royal Mandate | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion whe... | Elizabeth Marshall | Isaac Ambrose | Looking into Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | Hannah More | Practical piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.' | James Montgomery | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Doge of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and li... | Elizabeth Kemble | unknown | Lectures on the Bible and liturgy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Albans arrived at Scarborough this day, and in the afternoon paid me a visit, ac... | | | newspaper article | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.' | Thomas Cape | unknown | [report on trial] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903
L A W' in pencil manuscript.
In addition, a bookplate on... | Laurence A Waldron | Henry Austin Dobson | Fanny Burney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they w... | Anna Doyle Wheeler | Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'Holbach | Le Systeme de la nature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Emile Zola | Pot-Bouille | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Heere is the well where waters flow,
To quench our heat of sinne,
Heere is the tree where truth doth grow
To lead o... | Susanna Beckwith | | The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' . . . as sentence follows sentence I marvel, and wonder, indeed, if the writer [Bruce Barton] is not himself an insp... | Dora Seimons | Bruce Barton | The Man Nobody Knows | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear General Wallace, -- I sat up the night before last to finish your beautiful book, and I assure you I find it ... | Earl Dufferin | Lew Wallace | Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | St John's Antigua, July 19 1827
Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yester... | John Page | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | St John's Antigua, Jany 17 1828
My Dear Fanny
I have been amusing myself almost all morning in perusing several of ... | John Page | | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829
My Dear Fanny
.... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see... | John Page | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of Buttermere | Lydia Haskoll | [n/a] | White Hall Evening Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before leaving BIdeford, he told Osborne, he had read Rossetti's poems "rapturously":
"I am mad about Rossetti eve... | Arthur Symons | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 'Sister Helen' | Print: Unknown |
| | Marginalia
Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction.
Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday"
Herbert, The Collar ... | Francis Robert Longworth-Dames | Herbert J C Grierson | Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitc... | Arthur Symons | Leith Derwent [pseud.] | Circe's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterl... | Arthur Symons | William Dean Howells | A Modern Instance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "... | Arthur Symons | Theophile Gautier | Emaux et Camees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Inscribed in the book on the front free endpaper:
This book belonged to my father William youngest son of John and C... | William Williams | anon | Poetical description of song birds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated in... | Arthur Symons | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818:
"Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she h... | Lydia Haskoll | anon | History of Little Goody Two-shoes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The book seems to have been used in an educational context, probably at home. Pencilled crosses, dates and slash marks... | Olive Heath | anon | Preliminary lessons on the history of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Da... | Ann Ketelbey | Robert Persons (or Parsons) | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accomp... | Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury | unknown | [spiritual books] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Eve Cohan is taken to church by her Christian music master to hear the organ; a New Testament is 'secretly conveyed to... | Eve Cohan | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ... | anon [a boy] | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Even while she spelled words and syllables, she spelled out Christ; for if she met with a free promise, or some good ... | Martha Hatfeild | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'il resolut de lire encore l'Evangile' (he resolved to read the Gospel again): is converted to Christianity and baptis... | 'Le Juif baptise' (The Baptised Jew) | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | When 8 or 9, 'my Father seeing I took Pleasure in learning my Book, he bestowed a Tutor on me ...' Reads Talmud etc. -... | Moses Marcus | | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'She spent much time in reading the Scripture, and a Book called The best friend in the worst of times ... Another Boo... | Sarah Howley | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a c... | Joan Drake | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'a Bible lying near her, she took it up, and opened it in the presence of the Company, who observing what place it was... | Sarah Bower | | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On reading the subjoined chapters on the Turkish Bath, in
Mr Urquhart's "Pillars of Hercules", I was electrified; an... | Dr Richard Barter | David Urquhart | The Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In a notebook entry for 12 July 1896, Mattison expresses regret over the death of oscialist activist Caroline Martyn, ... | Alf Mattison | Keir Hardie | Labour Leader | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura':
'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were c... | Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray | Sir Henry Cole | The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were chil... | Anne Isabella Thackeray | Sir Henry Cole | The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'. | Alexander (Rex) Ewing | John Milton | Paradise Lost [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interest... | Alexander (Rex) Ewing | Kingslake | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Anthony Trollope | Last Chronicle of Barset | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Edward Meyrick Goulburn | An Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Drew | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'. | Juliana Horatia Ewing | [n/a] | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Rowland Elliott [?] | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From his diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between K... | John Hastie | [n/a] | Kelso Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc... | William Knox | [n/a] | Kelso Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc... | James Herriot | [n/a] | Kelso Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc... | David Herriot | [n/a] | Kelso Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after, the old mamma hobbled to me,? and began a furious panegyric upon my Book,? saying at the same Time "I won... | Mary Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but... | Anna Maria Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wi... | Susanna Dobson | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of B... | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Hooke | Micrographia [?] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up bu... | Samuel Pepys | Dr Henry King | A sermon preached the 30th of January...1664 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) bu... | Samuel Pepys | Sir William Coventry | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right ... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | The Newes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, t... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | The Intelligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, he... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [copy of verses] | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with busines... | Samuel Pepys | Abraham Cowley | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [King] [Charles I] | The workes of Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Porter | The Villaine | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [a play] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first cons... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bill of Mortality | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dread... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bill of Mortality | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I ... | Samuel Pepys | Sir William Davenant | The Seige of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read a... | Samuel Pepys | Sir William Davenant | The Seige of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [parliamentary bill] | |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [book about painting] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Elysium Britannicum | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Thersander [probably] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | [poems] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | Samuel Pepys | John Evelyn | Hortus Hyemalis | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Celia afraid of an eagle | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bill of Mortality | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day,... | Samuel Pepys | Edward Stillingfleete | Origines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grounds of Christian faith, as to the truth and divine authority of the scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife... | Samuel Pepys | Antoine Furetiere | Nouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers troubles arrivez au royaume d'eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recit... | Samuel Pepys | Henry Lawes | Ayres and dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote ... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Joseph Williamson | Oxford Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | 'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, an... | Samuel Pepys | Jeremy Taylor | A collection of polemical discourses, wherein the Church of England in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defended | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'. | Eugenia Wynne | Hernan Cortes | Cartas de relacion [??] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'. | Agathe Wynne | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.' | Agathe Wynne | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | L'amour maternelle | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the be... | Agathe Wynne | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | Zelie | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening we read "Olympe and Theophile" (by Mde. de G.) We all cried so much there was not one of us that was cap... | the Wynne family and friends, including Betsey, Eugenia and several women | Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".' | Agathe Wynne | [unknown] | L'Ami des Enfants | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. ... | | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Femmes Savantes | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. ... | | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey Wynne]'Our reading today was of Moliere, Mr de Regis read "Le Tartufe" which is his finest piece'. [Eugenia co... | | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Tartuffe | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I thin... | Dorothy Osborne | Marguerite de Valois | Memoires de la Reyne Marguerite | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Almanzor is as fresh in my memory, as if I had visitted his Tombe but Yesterday, though it bee at least seven yeare a... | Dorothy Osborne | Robert Ashley | Almansor the Learned and Victorious King that Conquered Spaine, His Life and Death | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer P... | Dorothy Osborne | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle | (?) Poems and Fancies | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't... | Dorothy Osborne | William Temple | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read... | Dorothy Osborne | Madeleine de Scudery | Artamene; ou, Le Grand Cyrus | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thoug... | Dorothy Osborne | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'Parthenissa is now my company[,] my Brother sent it downe and I have almost read it, tis hansome Language you would k... | Dorothy Osborne | Roger Boyle | Parthenissa | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'have you read the Story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto I think his name is . . . tis as dive... | Dorothy Osborne | Fernao Mendes Pinto | Peregrinacao | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about one book per day.' | John H.S. Craig | various | various | Print: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italic... | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Madame du Noyer | Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italic... | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Delarivier Manley | Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 emp... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | [dictionaries] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former.
I can?t boast that I discovered what purpo... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Le Jardin de Berenice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I first heard of Barr?s in an article by Edward Delille in the Fortnightly.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edward Delille | [article on Maurice Barres] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very ... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | La Vie Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent Scribner on new ideas in French Literature generally in which ... | Arnold Bennett | | 'Scribner' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking,... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | L'Ecole des Maris | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [n/a] | [Gazettes / newspapers from paris] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Eugenia Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Mr de Regis was gone to St Gall today, M. l'Abbe read to us "Le Medecin Malgre lui" of Moliere a charming comedy t... | M. l'Abbe | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Medecin Malgre Lui | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I thi... | Wynne sisters and tutor Mr Jaegle | Lord Chesterfield | Modern Europe | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Jesus Christ | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.'
... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos in German | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening we read a fine trajedy by Corneille where there are many noble characters Emily has such strength and su... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Pierre Corneille | Cinna | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 1st January,
Completed my paper on Mazzini.
Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap)
... | Gerald Moore | J.W. Marriott | One Act Plays of Today | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 2nd January,
Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother.
Read: ?Plain ... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 7th January,
Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture.
Smith does not expect to le... | Gerald Moore | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 9th January,
Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking ... | Gerald Moore | Belfort Bax | Essays on Socialism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 16th January,
Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer... | Gerald Moore | J. Ramsay Macdonald | Socialism: Critical and Constructive | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 27th January,
Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bur... | Gerald Moore | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday,28th January,
?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I supp... | Gerald Moore | Leonard Merrick | A Chair on the Boulevard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 29th January,
I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. A... | Gerald Moore | Henrik Ibsen | Brand | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 31st January,
Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry.
A rubber of whist.'
| Gerald Moore | unknown | [humorous poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 3rd February,
Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint ... | Gerald Moore | Isaac Walton | The Compleat Angler | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | Robert Herrick | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | E. Phillips Oppenheim | The Great Impersonation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 10th February,
Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates.
Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'
| Gerald Moore | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 11th February,
Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound... | Gerald Moore | Matthew Prior | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday,13th February,
Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' | Gerald Moore | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th February,
Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnifice... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lindon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 19th February,
Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immen... | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Path to Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 21st February,
Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th... | Gerald Moore | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | J.J. Bell | Thread o' Scarlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | Dunsany | A Night in the Sun | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | The Monkey's Paw | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | Lady Gregory | The Rising of the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 2nd March,
Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeti... | Gerald Moore | Villehardouin | Memoirs of the Crusades | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 5th March,
I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th March,
Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan presiden... | Gerald Moore | Rupert Brooke | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 9th March,
Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson.
The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Ro... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 14th March,
Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 17th March,
Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O.... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 22nd March,
Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'
| Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | The Eye-Witness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 24th March,
Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up... | Gerald Moore | Joseph Conrad | Almayer's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th March,
Discussion Group ? annual meeting.
Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).' | Gerald Moore | Alphonse Daudet | Tartarin sur les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 29th March,
A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Holmes | The Tragedy of Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 30th March,
Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players ... | Gerald Moore | Honore de Balzac | La Peau de Chagrin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 2nd April,
Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find mys... | Gerald Moore | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 5th April,
I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | As you Like it | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 7th April,
Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-healt... | Gerald Moore | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 11th April,
Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging... | Gerald Moore | J.B. Priestley | Figures in Modern Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 13th April,
Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehe... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 21st April,
Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on ... | Gerald Moore | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 20th May
The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaust... | Gerald Moore | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 28th May
The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c... | Gerald Moore | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 28th May
The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c... | Gerald Moore | | New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 3rd June
?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis)
I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on han... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Our Mr Wrenn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 4th June
?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis).
How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hunger... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Martin Arrowsmith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 20th June
? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'. | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | Short History of the World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 22nd June
?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte)
Wednesday 23rd June
A quiet day today and then last ... | Gerald Moore | Bret Harte | Jack Hamlin's Mediation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June.
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram).
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see th... | Gerald Moore | R.H. Mottram | The Spanish Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram)
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ... | Gerald Moore | | Daily Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 26th June
?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'. | Gerald Moore | Percy Wyndham Lewis | At the Sign of the Black Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 30th June.
?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay).
Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 1st July
This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 2nd July
Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed t... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 5th July
I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 6th July.
?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair).
Back to the office today and find that young Reid has ... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | Mr Waddington of Wyck | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 7th July.
?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'. | Gerald Moore | J.B. Priestley | The English Comic Character | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 8th July
I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very ... | Gerald Moore | St Francis of Assissi | Little Flowers of St Francis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 10th July
?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.
| Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 12th July.
I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that ... | Gerald Moore | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a little of "Robinson Crusoe" that is how I spent my evening'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening the fine trajedy of Racine "Andromaque" was read I did not hear all the play but I have read it before'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Jean Racine | Andromaque | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr de Regis read us "Semiramis" a fine trajedy of Voltaire what gave me great pleasure'. | [Mr] de Regis | Voltaire [pseud.] | Semiramis | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening I wrote to Mary Montalban and to her husband, and we read "Les Plaideurs" which made us laugh like foo... | Elizabeth Wynne and others | Jean Racine | Les Plaideurs | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [n/a] | Gazettes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I stayed in bed till 4 oclock this afternoon the sermon was read after dinner. It was fine but a little too strong'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mamma suffers much and was obliged to go to bed after dinner so Mr de Regis read the sermon which was on the | [Mr] de Regis | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 19th July
?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge)
This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading ... | Gerald Moore | William Pett Ridge | Story Teller in London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I did not hear much of the sermon today, it was on Apathy for whilst it was being read the children... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sermon was read this evening: very fine but the praises of the king are too strong'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 22nd July.
?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley).
I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it d... | Gerald Moore | Reg Berkeley | Unparliamentary papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 25th July.
?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West).
A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as inte... | Gerald Moore | Rebecca West | Return of the Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The sermon that we read was on the Passion and even finer than the last'. | Eugenia Wynne and others | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 29th July
?Sybil? ? (Disraeli)
[...]
I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 30th July.
Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systemat... | Gerald Moore | unknown | [Economics textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We read the French papers where there was a letter of a soldier written to the King of France which is of the grosses... | Elizabeth Wynne and others | [n/a] | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 31st July.
?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.
| Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 1 August.
?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold).
To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend... | Gerald Moore | Walter Jerrold | A Book of Famous Wits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 2nd August.
We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some mu... | Gerald Moore | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 3rd August.
?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'. | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Pongo and the Bull | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 7th August
?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. | Gerald Moore | George Moore | The Untilled Field | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I played the harpsichord most part of the evening. Then we began to read a play of Mr de Salis (made by him) entitled... | Elizabeth Wynne and others | [Mr] de Salis | L'Ecole aux Maris Malhonnetes | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 9th August.
?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson).
Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I... | Gerald Moore | H.W. Nevinson | Between the Acts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper Mde. de Bombelles read 'Le Philanthrope' which is as amusing as possible'.
| [Madame] de Bombelles | unknown | Le Philanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 19th August
?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. | Gerald Moore | Walter Besant | For Faith and Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 23rd August
I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the... | Gerald Moore | Edna Lyall | To Right the Wrong | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 23rd August
I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the... | Gerald Moore | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 24 August
The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, ... | Gerald Moore | | Courier | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 26th August
Pope?s ?Dunciad?
This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nat... | Gerald Moore | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 27th August
I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former.
Why is Thackeray su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 2nd September
?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)' | Gerald Moore | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th September
?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 10th September
Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then... | Gerald Moore | Charles Kingsley | The Heroes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th September
?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'. | Gerald Moore | James Branch Cabell | Jurgen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th September
?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)' | Gerald Moore | C.E.M. Joad | Thrasymachus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th September
?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman)
I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues... | Gerald Moore | Xenophon/Plato | Socratic Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 20th September
?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)'
| Gerald Moore | Ashley Thorndike (ed.) | Minor Elizabethan Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26th September
?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus?
A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. ... | Gerald Moore | "Bartimeus" | The Long Trick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 30th September
?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott)
Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusi... | Gerald Moore | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 4th October
?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'
| Gerald Moore | unknown | The Golden Glory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 11th October
?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'. | Gerald Moore | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 14th October
?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. | Gerald Moore | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 15th October.
Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From this time [7pm] till nine o'clock, the prisoners are allowed to read such books as they may have obtained from t... | prisoners at Pentonville prison | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their ce... | anon | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it int... | anon | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Inspection of the cells of the women in separate confinement: 'we found some working, and others reading, but none, st... | prisoners in separate confinement at Brixton Prison | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Inspection of the East Wing between 8:30pm and time of retirement: 'with their little wooden seats [they] placed thems... | prisoners in East Wing at Brixton Prison | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to... | prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati... | anon | Rev Lewis Tomlinson | Recreations in Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Thomas Pearson | Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [n/a] | Home Friend - a weekly miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [n/a] | Saturday Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Jonathan Edwards [?] | History of Redemption | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [unknown] | Family Quarrel - an humble story | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | The infirmary: 'Some of the men were in bed and sitting up reading, and others were lying down, looking very ill.' | prisoners in the infirmary at Millbank | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we w... | anon | [unknown] | [French and German language books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A few of the men were reading, and never raised their eyes' | prisoners at Coldbath Fields | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which w... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spok... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blo... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and co... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time:
'Those who are left behind ... | prisoners at Coldbath Fields | [n/a] | The Penny Sunday Reader | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time:
'Those who are left behind ... | prisoners at Coldbath Fields | [unknown] | [Religious Tracts] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields:
'At the time of our entry, the warder schoolmaster was hearing the bo... | boys in prison | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields:
'At the other end of the room the lads were making even greater havoc... | boys in prison | [n/a] | [school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields:
'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea... | anon | [unknown] | [lesson: either Bible or school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Adult (male) school at Wandsworth held in the prison chapel, 43 in the class, engaged in a Bible lesson:
'Others he c... | male prisoners at Wandsworth | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth:
'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Juvenile schoolroom at Holloway Prison:
'Mr Barre, the teacher, [was] busy with a class of boys, who were reading the... | juvenile male prisoners at Holloway | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | School for female prisoners at Holloway:
'On a subsequent day we visited the class with the matron, which was then e... | female prisoners at Holloway | [n/a] | [Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells:
'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells:
'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his t... | anon | [unknown] | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells:
'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servi... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 20th October.
Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 3rd November.
?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'
| Gerald Moore | Henry N. Brailsford | War of Steel and Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 6th November.
?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair).
Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Moth... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | The Tree of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6th November.
?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is ve... | Gerald Moore | J. Maynard Keynes | The End of Laissez Faire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 11th November.
?Opium-eater? again.'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 20th November.
I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless prop... | Gerald Moore | | New Leader | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 28th November
?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).' | Gerald Moore | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th December.
"Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.
| Gerald Moore | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 9th December.
?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'.
| Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacob | The Castaways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th December
?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.
| Gerald Moore | Victor MacClure | The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 14th December.
?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'. | Gerald Moore | Sabine Baring-Gould | Cheap Jack Zita | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 17th December.
French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s cla... | Gerald Moore | Eugene Labiche | Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th December.
?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'. | Gerald Moore | Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne | The Rev. Captain Kettle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 20th December
?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland).
This is the first time I have managed to get hold ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Au dessus de la m?l | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 22 December.
I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous l... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Au dessus de la m?l | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 25th December.
?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper)
Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Ch... | Gerald Moore | Edward Whymper | Scrambles among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 27th December.
?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.
| Gerald Moore | Mary Johnston | By Order of the Company | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1926]
'"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes),
"Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling),
"... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January- Saturday
I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep.
This might, thus, be an exempl... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January ? Tuesday.
?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse.
A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, an... | Gerald Moore | Harold Brighouse | Captain Shapely | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5th January ? Wednesday.
I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, consider... | Gerald Moore | Gerald Moore | [list of books read in 1926] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '11th January, Tuesday.
?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse).
I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '11th January, Tuesday.
?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse).
I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ... | Gerald Moore | | Liverpool Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '13th January, Thursday.
?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse).
I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '18th January, Tuesday.
?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb)
I was up till late last night finishing ... | Gerald Moore | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '20th January, Thursday.
Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Mo... | Gerald Moore | George Eric Paterson | poems [unspecified] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '30th January, Sunday.
I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd February, Wednesday.
I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is... | Gerald Moore | Israel Zangwill | King of the Schnorres | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th February, Sunday.
We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken litt... | Gerald Moore | | Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World War | Print: Book, Plaque |
| 1900-1945 | '18th February, Thursday.
The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through ... | Gerald Moore | | Advertisements in French | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | '19th February, Saturday.
The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had th... | Gerald Moore | | menu in French | Print: menu |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd February, Wednesday.
This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-col... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '26th February, Saturday.
Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read t... | Gerald Moore | | Le Sourire | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March, Thursday.
The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have al... | Gerald Moore | Claude Farr?re | Les Civilis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '19th March, Saturday.
Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.'
| Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Jocaste et le Chat Maigre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '29th March, Tuesday.
?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite.
30th March, Wednesday.
These last few days I have been readin... | Gerald Moore | V. Marguerite | La Gar?onne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that... | Stuart Wood | Frances Kingsley | Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th September 1928.
Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and someho... | Gerald Moore | Emile Zola | Une Page d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '16th September 1928
I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to ... | Gerald Moore | Cecil Chesterton | History of the United States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhinelan... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | The Castaways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | Deep Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | Cecil Chesterton | The History of the United States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '19th September 1928 (Wednesday)
I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bri... | Gerald Moore | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '20th September 1928 (Thursday).
I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Letters of Travel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst pape... | Gerald Moore | | The New York American | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '28th September 1928 (Friday).
I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France... | Gerald Moore | Thomas Vladesco | [article on Henrik Ibsen] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '30th September 1928 (Sunday)
We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st October 1928 (Monday).
Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this gr... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd September 1928 (Tuesday)
Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd September 1928 (Tuesday)
Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought... | Gerald Moore | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '3rd October 1928 (Wednesday).
Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned hom... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Letters of Travel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th October 1928 (Saturday).
So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading
?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - tr... | Gerald Moore | Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol | Taras Boulba | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 13th October 1928.
After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. ... | Gerald Moore | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th October 1928
?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.
| Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Vie de Tolstoy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th October 1928.
Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt... | Gerald Moore | H. Barbusse | La Clart | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '27th October 1928 (Saturday)
?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)' | Gerald Moore | Claude Anet | La Rive d?Asie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '30th October 1928.
I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ... | Gerald Moore | | Birkenhead Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '30th October 1928.
I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ... | Gerald Moore | | New Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January 1929 (Tuesday)
In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Meth... | Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January 1929.
?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'
| Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th January 1929.
After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by... | Gerald Moore | W.J. Locke | [?] The Usurper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '7th January 1929 Monday.
This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie.
?Beyond? Galswort... | Gerald Moore | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '8th January 1929
?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most ... | Gerald Moore | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '12th January 1929.
During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not ... | Gerald Moore | Henry Bordeaux | Robe de Laine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '13th February 1929
I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses ... | Gerald Moore | | Excelsior | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '16th February 1929.
?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)'
| Gerald Moore | Arthur W. Pollitt | The Enjoyment of Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th February 1929 (Sunday).
After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Les Amis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th February 1929 (Sunday)
Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Les Amis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th February 1929 (Sunday)
Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri... | Gerald Moore | Oscar Wilde | The Portrait of Dorian Gray | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '25th February 1929 (Monday).
Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow.
A quiet day, reading the papers... | Gerald Moore | | Le Temps | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '26th February 1929.
No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Ta... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '27th February 1929.
Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty.... | Gerald Moore | | Le Matin | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '3rd March 1929.
At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arr... | Gerald Moore | | [Road sign] | Print: Road sign |
| 1900-1945 | '5th March 1929.
Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine... | Gerald Moore | Pierre Benoit | Atlandide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '7th March 1929.
Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).'
| Gerald Moore | Maxime | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '12th March 1929
Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.'
| Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929
?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our so... | Gerald Moore | Maxime Gorki | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929.
I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, an... | Gerald Moore | Walt Whitman | Song of the Open Road | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Brooks | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Artemus Ward | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Sketches by Boz | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March 1929 (Sunday).
Slept until 12 !
In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ... | Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March 1929 (Sunday).
Slept until 12 !
In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ... | Gerald Moore | | Punch, or the London Charivari | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '20th March 1929.
Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)' | Gerald Moore | Maxime Gorki | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '21st March 1929.
?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' | Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Le Petit Pierre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd March 1929 (Saturday).
Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afte... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Goncourt | La Faustin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th March 1929 (Sunday).
Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire ... | Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| | 'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian co... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Jean-Baptiste Rousseau | odes | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | [history] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I no longer look upon Theocritus as a romantic writer; he has only given a plain image of the way of life amongst the... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Theocritus | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not bef... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passag... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Ibrahim Pasha | Turkish Verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is most wonderfully resembling [italics] The Song of Solomon [italics], which was also addressed to a royal bride.' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | Song of Songs (Old Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s... | anon | Charles Dickens | [works] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | Fruit Blossom Time | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | [unnamed novel] | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I h... | Arnold Bennett | 'Par Un Initie' | Mysteres des Sciences Occultes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Courting Umbrella | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally very ... | Jane Edwards | unknown | Novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | unknown | [Texts on history] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | Bayley | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | Anson | Voyages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | Lemprier | Tour to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | unknown | History of Montezuma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school:
'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms o... | Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. | William Pinnock | 'Catechisms of History and Geography" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school:
'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms o... | Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. | Sarah Trimmer | 'Selections [from the Bible]' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school:
'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms o... | Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. | | Old Testament (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school:
'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms o... | Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. | | Gospels (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school:
'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms o... | Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. | | Acts of the Apostles (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home:
'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In th... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight:
'When my regular lesson... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | French idioms | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mason | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister)'s library in his home at Binstead:
'My first ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Burger | Lenore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on books lent to herself and her siblings, when children, during visits to her uncle Edwards... | Elizabeth Sewell | anon | Arabian Nights' Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged al... | Elizabeth Sewell | | Biblical story of Jephthah | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on reading at her Bath boarding school:
'We learned passages from the best authors, and my d... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Robertson | History of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Isaac Watts | Improvement of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Italian history of the Venetian Doges] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | Spanish grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | Spanish dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Texts on botany] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | [poetry and novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Shakespeare | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on a stay at her aunt Mrs Hanbury's London house during late 1835:
'The house and the situat... | Elizabeth Sewell | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | The Countess and Gertrude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", whi... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mrs. Mary Sherwood | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings:
'After my father's death, the only reading, ... | Jane Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings:
'After my father's death, the only reading, ex... | Jane Sewell | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her family's encouragement of her writing:
'William [Sewell's brother] had arranged to... | William Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Hood | 'We watched her breathing through the night --' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed youn... | anon | [n/a] | Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on support received in the face of criticisms of her novel
[italics]Margaret Percival[end i... | Samuel Rickards | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | 'little history of the early Church' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | The Earl's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took my two lessons with Mr Jaegle, we began to read "Les Voyages du Jeune Anarchasis". The little that I heard tod... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [Abbe] Barthelemy | Les Voyages du Jeune Anacharsis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I began to read "Paul and Virginia" book that Mrs Braun brought here it is very pretty'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but thoug... | Eugenia Wynne | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We read today in the "Veilees du Chateau" I think that book very good for the young people'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis | Veilees du Chateua ou Cours Morale a l'usage des Enfants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] ma... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | James Thomson | [a tragedy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr de Bombelles read to us this evening a French Tragedy of Racine "Andromaque" that lecture gave me pleasure'. | [Mr] de Bombelles | Racine (pseud.) | Andromaque | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Hugh Blair | Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening I heard a lecture of a work made by Mr de Bressac which is the description of all the murders and horror... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [Mr] de Bressac | [account of French Rebellion] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me re... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | Rudolph of Wertenberg | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pastebo... | Mary Hamilton | John Lodge Cowley | ?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded w... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs. Humphry Ward | The Story of Bessie Cottrell | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the ... | Arnold Bennett | C.E. Francis | Every Day's News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads... | Frederic Chapman | Arnold Bennett | reviews | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its s... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Elizabeth Wynne | [diaries] | Manuscript: diary |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ... | Eugenia Wynne | John Shore | [elegies on deaths of wife and child] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ... | Eugenia Wynne | William Henry Lyttelton | [probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747 | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b... | Eugenia Wynne | William Robertson | The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince ... | Eugenia Wynne | [n/a] | [English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is v... | Eugenia Wynne | Christoph Martin Wieland | Agathon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partr... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Jean Dumont | A New Voyage to the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the tr... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Hom... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | Arabian Tales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain o... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | unknown | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'. | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Richard Knolles | The Turkish History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'. | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what y... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Mr Hill | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Theocritus | Idyll 18 | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which accoun... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 v... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Sir Paul Rycaut | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than an... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Gemelli | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which, the Greek priests (who are th... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | Qu'ran | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Mr Sandys | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Strabo | Geographica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest se... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Oscar Wilde | Ballad of Reading Gaol or De Profundis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time:
'That completed the furniture in the cell. B... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly o... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".' | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Koran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I b... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence:
'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Pro... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On ano... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the pr... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [book on China] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had ... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [unknown- various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries fu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Who's Who | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living
'Works of reference in public libraries fur... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Burke | Peerage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living
'Works of reference in public libraries fur... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Crockford's Clerical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries fu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Army List | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries fu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Navy List | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries fu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | University Registers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries fu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | University Year Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, t... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | Bampton lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | Gifford lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Charlotte Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Emily Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Anne Bronte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Jane Austen [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Edward Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Charles Kingsley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Charles Reade | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas [?] Hughes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Anthony Trollope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed... | | [unknown] | [Henry VIII] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate se... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845:
'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 16 September 1845, at 3 Park Villas, Richmond ('Visit to a friend, Miss Hoope... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell and other guests and household members at 3 Park Villas, Richmond | | Lives of the English Saints | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Article on the Jesuits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Oxford and Cambridge Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846:
'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Tilley | Chollerton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846:
'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Tales on the Game Laws | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846:
'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Alison | accounts of Napoleon's battles | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Asht... | | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [unknown - various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [lives of the Fathers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [biographies of Christ] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [biographies of St Paul] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [studies on the Apostles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Second confinement in the Prison at Hull:
'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue;... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [unknown - various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Second confinement in the Prison at Hull:
'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | [uknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Second confinement in the Prison at Hull:
'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas Carlyle | [uknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas Carlyle | [uknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Joseph Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Heinrich Heine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Pierre Loti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Friedrich Nietzsche | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | [unknown] | [Greek Philosophy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | George Berkeley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Immanuel Kant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Arthur Schopenhauer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Gustav Fechner | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Rudolph Hermann Lotze | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a... | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | ["black-letter poems"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if poss... | John A. Carlyle | Charles Rollin | Histoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes, des Perses, des Macedoniens, et des Grecs (6 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my ... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Unknown | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Criticism on Faust (working title) | Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was about noon, and the officers had all gone home to their dinners, when, as I sat on my stool munching my loaf a... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!' | Jane Bailie Welsh | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. T... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | United Irishman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Tha... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Richard Henry Dana | Two years before the mast | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Mary Schweidler | The Amber Witch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, in... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays [on Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June:
'Our second lieutenan... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, begi... | John Mitchel | Livy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stag... | John Mitchel | [unknown] | [Abyssinia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Russell (ed.) | [Palestine] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Frazer (ed.) | [Persia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Dean Swift | [Captain Crichton's autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | William Gifford | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Thomas Elwood | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Three Mousequetaires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Marquis de Letoriere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Douglas Jerrold | St Giles and St James | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown f... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [London newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indi... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Freeman's Journal | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Madame Pichler | [Siege of Vienna] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | [George] [Allan?] | [biography of Walter Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Dr Memes [pseud?] | [Life of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ... | John Mitchel | Francois Rabelais | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ... | John Mitchel | Claudius Galen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Aristotle? | Politeia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through ... | John Mitchel | Sir Alexander Burnes | [Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".' | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and... | John Mitchel | Aristotle? | Politeia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full ... | John Mitchel | Thomas Keightley | History of the War of Independence in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the wort... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Saturday Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ... | John Mitchel | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ... | John Mitchel | Walter Scott | The Heart of the Mid-Lothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | [uknown] | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other th... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its conten... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most rever... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Freeman's Journal | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-conv... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubin... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | Life of Southey | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850:
'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Pusey | two sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Paul | Epistle to the Hebrews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]:
'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles de Remusat | 'French Essays on Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868:
'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire | Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously... | John Mitchel | [unknown] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ... | John Mitchel | [Duffy] | Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach:
'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia] | Print: loose slip of paper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels wi... | John Mitchel | [Barry] | Southern Reporter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the ed... | John Mitchel | Joseph Brennan (ed) | Irishman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire:
'I h... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Richard Rowe | Episodes in an Obscure Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | From letter to Eleanor M. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], wr... | M. H. | | The Gentlewoman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter to Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end itali... | J. J. Lias | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter to Eleanor L. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], wr... | Elizabeth Wordsworth | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Preparation for the Holy Communion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | Eleanor L. Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | | | Visitors' book, Lollards' Tower, Lambeth | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | ['books of note'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation there... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Commercial Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, a... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded ... | Captain Bance | Lord Grey | [Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of convicts on ship] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult ha... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | The Times [and other English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large ca... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Ho... | John Mitchel | Patrick O'Donohue (editor) | Irish Exile | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with m... | John Martin | [n/a] | [Irish newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of t... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Colonial Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, g... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? ... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Corelli | Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Some technical elements of style in literatue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at w... | Arnold Bennett | Dr Peter Mark Roget | Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the prin... | Arnold Bennett | Edmund and Jules de Goncourt | Renee Mauperin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring ba... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little a... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) ... | Arnold Bennett | George Paston | A Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study in Prejudices | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'
| Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Modern Lover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he... | Betsey and Eugenia Wynne | [unknown] | [trial of Governor Wale] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent a very agreeable day at home; had a delightful lesson of Cramer; wrote a long letter to Angelo, and amused myse... | Harriet Wynne | [possibly] Eusebius | [possibly] The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'. | Harriet Wynne | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began to work myself a Chemisette - read "Frere Paschal" and laughed most violently as well as Eugenia'.. | Harriet Wynne | Paschal - or perhaps this is the title of a work | Frere Paschal - or perhaps Paschal is the author | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suff... | Thomas Fremantle | [unknown] | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I spent the whole afternoon reading some of Mde. de Sevigne's letters' | Harriet Wynne | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Mde. de Sevigne until I was quite tired'. | Harriet Wynne | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed re... | Justina Wynne | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other so... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occu... | Thomas Fremantle | Sarah Stickney Ellis | Family Secrets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'. | Harriet Wynne | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edmond and Jules de Goncourt | Germinie Lacerteux | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.' | Arnold Bennett | A.C. Swinburne | review of 'The Golden Age' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, ... | Arnold Bennett | John Buchan | Reader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Bennett | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | `My dear Watson:
Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Od... | Thomas Hardy | William Watson | Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII | Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The se... | Florentia Sale | | Bible and Prayer Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading "A Son at the Front" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.' | Rudyard Kipling | Edith Wharton | A Son at the Front | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & ... | Arnold Bennett | Stendhal | De l'amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Forbes-Mitchell | Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One of them asked what he had been reading.
'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye.
'L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lawrence L. Lynch | Shadowed by Three: A Detective Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One of them asked what he had been reading.
'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye.
'L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Dashing Kate, the Female Detective | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bend... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Weir of Hermiston | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Witch Woman | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of S... | James Lackington | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'. | James Lackington | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sunday 18 October:
'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was ... | Maria Steley | [n/a] | [Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Monday 26 October
'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't... | anon | [n/a] | [funeral service] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Since the publication of the first edition of these memoirs, I have read "The Memoirs of Mr. Tate Wilkinson" patentee... | James Lackington | Tate Wilkinson | The memoirs of Mr Tate Wilkinson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Dec 9
'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging... | Newton Barton | [unknown] | Death Notch the Avenging Rancher | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 13 Mar
'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the acco... | Luce | [unknown] | [Bulletin] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle | Sophie Cottin | Mathilde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a ve... | Eugenia Wynne | Thomas Skinner Surr | A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a hor... | Thomas Fremantle | [n/a] | Gibraltar Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".' | Thomas Fremantle | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".' | Thomas Fremantle | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're s... | | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the Daily Mail and the News of the World for sport. They're getting a bit better than they were, but they're s... | | | News of the world | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined t... | | Dick Shepherd | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined t... | | Aldous Huxley | Encyclopaedia of pacifism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read it three times, and I can't make head or tail of it. Doesn't seem nothing in it somehow.' | | Adolf Hitler | [a speech] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scar... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there w... | [a priest] anon | unknown | prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again,... | Mark Jeffrey | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Blaise Pascal | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Jean de La Fontaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | [unknown] | [pestilent literature of rascaldom] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathema... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Bossut | Essai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am... | Thomas Carlyle | John Leyden | 'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -wh... | Thomas Carlyle | William Shakespeare | [Works] | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Murray | [critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Courier'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | W. Scott Irving | [poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | W. Scott Irving | [essays on Burns and monuments] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense... | Thomas Carlyle | Maclaurin | [writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to Carlyle] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spi... | Thomas Carlyle | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting re... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Murray | [article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so muc... | Thomas Carlyle | Francis Jeffrey | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Sophie Cottin | Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Christoph Wieland | Oberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 Gesangen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | John Hoole | Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Richard Savage | [Poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | Francois Fenelon | Abrege des vies des anciens philosophes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | James Beresford | Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy co... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Mitchell | [a mathematical paper] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Lord Byron | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Richard Glover | Leonidas, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wilkie | The Epigoniad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Porter | The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Leonhard Euler | Elements of Algebra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Addison | The Free-holder, I-LV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Georges Cuvier | 'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupedes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Moliere [pseud.] | [Comedies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religi... | James Lackington | Henry Coventry | Philemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false religion in the earlier pagan world related in a series of coversations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart ... | Thomas Carlyle | Stewart Lewis | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] | review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab... | Thomas Carlyle | Pierre Simon Laplace | Essai philosophique sur les probabilites | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you w... | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | [unknown novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may r... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Porter | Thaddeus of Warsaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to... | Thomas Carlyle | Cicero | De Officiis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to... | Thomas Carlyle | Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain d... | James Lackington | John Biggs | [conversion narrative] | Print: Handbill |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I've only read the Telegraph, and I don't like it. Everything is contradicted later.' | | | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Volta... | Thomas Carlyle | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Pucelle d'Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the four PIL which we have had . They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, b... | | Ministry of Information | public information leaflets | |
| 1800-1849 | 'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his man... | Thomas Carlyle | Cicero | De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in... | Thomas Carlyle | William Rowe Lyall | [review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | [review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Mannering] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some ... | Thomas Carlyle | anon. | [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has pre... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I re... | | Russell Thorndyke | Dr Syn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Two books I remember reading at one sitting are "Dr. Syn" and "The return of Dr. Syn" (Russell Thorndyke), these I re... | | Russell Thorndyke | The return of Dr. Syn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | [essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke's Travels] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Mark Akenside | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenio... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | Hugh Blair | Lectures on Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | [an Italian Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | Francesco Soave | Novelle Morali | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave:
'"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "th... | Michael Davitt | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | The Life and Writings of William Robertson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Benjamin Thomson Count Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | George Stewart Mackenzie | Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer of 1810 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published... | James Lackington | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Thoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous Editor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich von Humboldt | Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | George Berkeley | Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Philosophical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another no... | Arnold Bennett | Edmond de Goncourt | Madame Gervaisais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Simpson | A Treatise of Fluxions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Bossut | Essai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | James Wood | The Elements of Optics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | Isaac Newton | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | voyage diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ... | Thomas Carlyle | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | The Field of Waterloo, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Mortimer | The British Plutarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a... | Arnold Bennett | J.M. Barrie | Sentimental Tommy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Pope | The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Homer | The Iliad / Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only... | Thomas Carlyle | George Crabe | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | Isaac Newton | Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | James Wood | The Elements of Optics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre | Abrege d'astronomie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | John Keill | Introductio ad veram physicam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas or William Belsham | [either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essays in Philosophical Morality] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | [Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical ... | James Lackington | Voltaire | (possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the pocket, Written in French by a society of men of letters and translated into English | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I hav... | Thomas Carlyle | John Playfair | Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I hav... | Thomas Carlyle | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas M'Crie | Vindication of the Covenanters | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | The Scotsman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape... | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | The Sale Room | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Spurzheim | [work on phrenology] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Blaise Pascal | Les Provinciales, ou les lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of whic... | Thomas Carlyle | Christian Leopold, Baron von Buch | Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to w... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Histoire de l'astronomie moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmi... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Dumfries Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Sylvain Bailly | Histoire de l'astronomie moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | [article on paperism in Edinburgh Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Southey | [article in Quarterly Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | The Scotsman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wallace | [article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons... | Thomas Carlyle | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since ... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel ... | Thomas Carlyle | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | "The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present... | James Lackington | | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the suppositi... | Thomas Carlyle | Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld | Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The g... | Thomas Carlyle | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Coxe | Travels in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Coxe | Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that im... | Arnold Bennett | J.M. Barrie | Margaret Ogilvy/by her son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Lane,
I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have... | Arnold Bennett | Frederic Jessup Stimson | King Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wait only for one little incident to shape itself and then I can march on up to, & right through, my great revival ... | Arnold Bennett | Harold Frederic | Illumination, or, The damnation of Theron Ware | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his po... | Arnold Bennett | Rudyard Kipling | The Long Trail | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi... | Arnold Bennett | Ernest Dupuy | Les Grand Maitres de la litterature russe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Eugene Melchior de Vogue | Le Roman russe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night. He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street. It was ... | Arnold Bennett | G. S. Street | reader's report on "Bettesworth" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' | Arnold Bennett | Alexandre Dumas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | The Unequal Yoke | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | Chubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ... | Arnold Bennett | William Edwards Tirebuck | Miss Grace of All Souls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Woodd Nevinson | In the Valley of Tophet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.'
... | Arnold Bennett | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There i... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Note on Fiction | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'That Conrad book is magnificent.'
| Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Nigger of the Narcissus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Nigger of the Narcissus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life":
'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and n... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | 'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]:
'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Fanny Kemble | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Trench | sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? ... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Etude sur Gustave Flaubert | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got... | Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | Lying Prophets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The busin... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life":
'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | ?Maria ?Edgeworth | 'To-morrow' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the d... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the
correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jane Taylor | The Contributions of Q.Q. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans tha... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Havelock Ellis | Affirmations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally... | Arnold Bennett | Allan Noble Monkhouse | A Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.'
| Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | Children of the Mist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Yeats | The Celtic Twilight | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to imp... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | A Story of the Days to Come | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.'
| Arnold Bennett | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesm... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious w... | James Lackington | Antoine-Joseph Pernety | The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bouganville in order to form a Settlement there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with An Account of the Patagonians. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. ... | Sydney Smith | T.H. Lister | Epicharis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a boo... | Sydney Smith | William Francis Patrick Napier | History of the Peninsular War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ... | Sydney Smith | John Galt | Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ... | Sydney Smith | Lady Raffles | [memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it onl... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with... | Sydney Smith | James Justinian Morier | Zohrab the Hostage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Lady Dacre | Recollections of a Chaperon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Hamilton | Men and Manners in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d... | Sydney Smith | Robert James Mackintosh | Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despot... | Sydney Smith | Antoine Beauvilliers | L'Art de Cuisiner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleas... | Sydney Smith | Frances Milton Trollope | Tremordyn Cliff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i... | Sydney Smith | Washington Irving | Astoria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [writings on Indian Courts and Education] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'. | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Ca... | Sydney Smith | Henry Harpur Spry | Modern India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court... | Sydney Smith | William, Baron Stowell Scott | [reports of cases in the Admiralty Court] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the ... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Mary Berry | [letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; b... | Sydney Smith | M. Guizot | 'Washington: par M. Guizot' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'. | Sydney Smith | [Mrs] Crowe | Susan Hopley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | Philip Doddridge | The Family Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [anon] | The Scholar Armed | |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | The Dissenter Tripped Up | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombard... | Sydney Smith | Mountstuart Elphinstone | History of India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plut... | Sydney Smith | Charles Napier | An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'. | Sydney Smith | unknown | A Life in the Forest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | La Messe de l'Athee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ... | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable ... | Sydney Smith | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Re... | Sydney Smith | Theobald Mathew | Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent... | Sydney Smith | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sick Room | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as h... | Sydney Smith | William Ellery Channing | [sermon on War] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; ... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Arthur Stanley | Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it wo... | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details w... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Richard Bourke | Correspondence of Burke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in... | Sydney Smith | Alexander William Kinglake | Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] | Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and gri... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'. | Sydney Smith | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from the journal of Adam Dodd:
'When I first came on board the A-, I was as thoughtless as anyone on board; b... | Adam Dodd | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | anon | [unknown] | [the barren fig tree] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | Colin Arrott Browning | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Confession of invalid convict George Day:
'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing ... | Colin Arrott Browning | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teach... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teach... | | [n/a] | [devotional texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. ... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Conversion of hardened convict, as a result of a storm which brought terror to his mind:
'It was then I thought of Je... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always gratef... | George Day | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | anon | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Oliphant | Review of The Master of Ballantrae | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chap... | anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chap... | anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully tr... | Thomas Green | Sir William Temple | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....' | Thomas Green | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medi... | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....' | Thomas Green | Julius Caesar | Commentaries | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....' | Thomas Green | John Hawkesworth | Life of Swift [in Works of Swift?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....' | Thomas Green | Thomas Sheridan | Life of Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....' | Thomas Green | John Jortin | Life of Erasmus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...' | Thomas Green | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....' | Thomas Green | Richard Watson | Apology for the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...' | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read with interest and curiosity, Hurd's "Life of Warburton"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Life of Warburton [in Warburton, Works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...' | Thomas Green | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Charles V. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...' | Thomas Green | James Beattie | An essay on the nature and immutability of truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece o... | Thomas Green | Edmond Malone | An inquiry into the authenticity of certain papers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Italian"...' | Thomas Green | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...' | Thomas Green | Edward Gibbon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...' | Thomas Green | Jonathan Swift | The history of the four last years of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...' | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...' | Thomas Green | Adam Smith | Essays on philosophical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...' | Thomas Green | James Beattie | Elements of moral science | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Steele | The Tatler | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Discourse concerning Imitation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hur... | Thomas Green | Horace | Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...' | Thomas Green | Horace | Art of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | The Mysterious Mother | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...' | Thomas Green | Thomas James Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...' | Thomas Green | Longinus | On the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...' | Thomas Green | Quintilian | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...' | Thomas Green | John Gay | Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is ha... | Thomas Green | John Brown | An essay on satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I a... | Thomas Green | Anonymous | Arabian Nights Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...' | Thomas Green | William Wollaston | Religion of Nature delineated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of po... | Thomas Green | William Gifford | The Baviad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...' | Thomas Green | Daines Barrington | Observations on the Ancient Statutes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his... | Thomas Green | Joseph Warton | Life of Pope, in Works, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Gray | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "... | Thomas Green | John Dryden | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...' | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fam... | Thomas Green | Samuel Garth | The Dispensary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and A... | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded i... | Thomas Green | Robert Macfarlane | History of George III | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but w... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but wa... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...' | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...' | Thomas Green | George Campbell | The Philosophy of Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...' | Thomas Green | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of th... | Thomas Green | Anthony Hamilton | Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who... | Thomas Green | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Moral and political dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...' | Thomas Green | William King | De origine mali | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...' | Thomas Green | William Russell | The History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principle... | Thomas Green | John Locke | Essay concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, ... | Thomas Green | Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan | The History of Nourjahad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curiou... | Thomas Green | Bertrand de Moleville | Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a master... | Thomas Green | Sir John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Haslam on Insanity....' | Thomas Green | John Haslam | Observations on Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosophe... | Thomas Green | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virt... | Thomas Green | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Inquiry concerning Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through ... | Thomas Green | Joshua Reynolds | Seven Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touc... | Thomas Green | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on... | Thomas Green | John Brown | An estimate of the manners and principles of the times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over "Serious Reflections by a rational Christian", from 1788 to 1798 written by the Duke of G-...' | Thomas Green | Augustus Henry Fitzroy | The serious reflections of a rational Christian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...' | Thomas Green | Philip Dormer Stanhope | Characters of eminent personages of his own time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...' | Thomas Green | Jean-Baptiste Dubos | Critical reflections on poetry, painting and music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that th... | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | Vindication of Natural Society | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical dec... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with... | Thomas Green | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...' | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...' | Thomas Green | Montesquieu | De l?esprit des loix | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of governm... | Thomas Green | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Tast... | Thomas Green | Thomas Reid | An inquiry into the human mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in ea... | Thomas Green | George Berkeley | A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...' | Thomas Green | Voltaire | Essay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...' | Thomas Green | Philip Yorke | Athenian Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still ... | Thomas Green | J. J. Barth?lemy | Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measur... | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and su... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...' | Thomas Green | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Natio... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's ... | Thomas Green | Torquato Tasso | Jerusalem Delivered | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...' | Thomas Green | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vign | Lettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de Main | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his ... | Thomas Green | Thomas Burnet | The theory of the earth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J.... | Thomas Green | James Ussher | An introduction to the theory of the human mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, an... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Gallicae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been ... | Thomas Green | Soame Jenyns | A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...' | Thomas Green | Edward Gibbon | Essai sur l??tude de la litt?rature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passa... | Thomas Green | Francis Bacon | Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...' | Thomas Green | Edward Hooker | Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | An introduction to the study of the prophecies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Bishop Shipley's Works; to the reading of which I had been powerfully recommended by M-h. A vein of good se... | Thomas Green | Jonathan Shipley | The works of the Right Reverend Jonathan Shipley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Sermons preached at Lincoln?s-Inn | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'
| Thomas Green | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...' | Thomas Green | Cicero | De Senectute | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its ... | Thomas Green | Thomas May | The history of the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...' | Thomas Green | John Dryden | The satires of Juvenalis, translated into English | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the wh... | Thomas Green | William Richardson | A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's characters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad hum... | Thomas Green | Richard Owen Cambridge | The scribleriad: an heroic poem in six books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, a... | Thomas Green | Hugh Blair | Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement o... | Thomas Green | William Jackson of Exeter | The four ages; together with essays on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius stead... | Thomas Green | William Warburton | The divine legation of Moses demonstrated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellen... | Thomas Green | Thomas Balguy | Discourses on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly... | Thomas Green | Pierre Mathurin | The memoirs of the Duke of Sully | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...' | Thomas Green | Isaac Watts | Logic, or the right use of reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by wh... | Thomas Green | Archibald Alison | Essays on the nature and principles of taste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is... | Thomas Green | Henry Pemberton | A view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibitin... | Thomas Green | John Moore | Zeluco. Various views of human nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to m... | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | Moral Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...' | Thomas Green | John Moore | Edward. Various views of human nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of ... | Thomas Green | John Whitehurst | An inquiry into the original state and formation of the earth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...' | Thomas Green | Uvedale Price | An essay on the picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...' | Thomas Green | William Gilpin | Three Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetchin... | Sydney Smith | August von Kotzebue | Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she... | Sydney Smith | Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Constable [ed.] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr... | Sydney Smith | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi... | Sydney Smith | William Jacob | Travels in the South of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Franklin | The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his def... | Sydney Smith | Dugald Stewart | [Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | [evidence of Elgin Marble Committee] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proo... | Sydney Smith | George Canning | [Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he ... | Sydney Smith | Jean Francois Georgel | M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advic... | Sydney Smith | Jean Francois Georgel | M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppos... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his no... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute nece... | Sydney Smith | Henry Brougham | A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Henry Fearon | Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Bradbury | Travels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Palmer | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Francis Hall | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ... | Sydney Smith | Morris Birkbeck | Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ... | Sydney Smith | Morris Birkbeck | Letters from Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...' | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at th... | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than ... | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: b... | Thomas Green | John Hey | Lectures in divinity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...' | Thomas Green | Robert Bloomfield | The farmer?s boy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...' | Thomas Green | Edward Pearson | Remarks on the Theory of Morals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sub... | Thomas Green | Virgil | Aenied | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections... | Thomas Green | William Godwin | St Leon, a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...' | Thomas Green | James Gregory | Philosophical and literary essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...' | Thomas Green | Johann David Michaelis | Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...' | Thomas Green | William Frend | Animadversions on the elements of Christian theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...' | Thomas Green | Richard Porson | Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...' | Thomas Green | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...' | Thomas Green | Herbert Marsh | The history of the politicks of Great Britain and France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Discourse concerning Imitation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...' | Thomas Green | Charles Gildon | "An Essay" in Works of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...' | Thomas Green | Cicero | Brutus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...' | Thomas Green | George Pretyman | Elements of Christian theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, w... | Thomas Green | Edmond Malone | Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...' | Thomas Green | Daines Barrington | The history of singing birds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...' | Thomas Green | James Thomas Kirkman | Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...' | Thomas Green | John Dryden | Prose Works, ed. Malone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description,... | Thomas Green | Ann Radcliffe | A journey made in the summer of 1794 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...' | Thomas Green | Soame Jenyns | The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon ob... | Thomas Green | Johann Goffried Herder | Outlines of a philosophy of the history of man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...' | Thomas Green | Henry James Pye | A Commentary illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?... | Thomas Green | Samuel Darby | A letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late edition of Milton's Juvenile Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - whic... | Thomas Carlyle | Reuben BURROW | Unknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his mann... | Thomas Carlyle | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standa... | Thomas Carlyle | William Hazlitt | 'Standard Novels' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standa... | Thomas Carlyle | Lewis & Clarke | Travels up the Missouri | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir Isaac Newton | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and f... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | Belfast Town & County Almanack | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at leas... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir John Leslie | Elements of Geometry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Irving | Introductory Address | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Thomson | The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Wallace | 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the pur... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Mitchell | 'theorems' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of... | Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' | n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on paestum are sai... | Lord and Lady Holland | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai... | John Nicholas Fazackerly | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai... | | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are som... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a... | Sydney Smith | Henry Grey Bennet | Letter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the Transportation Laws, the State of the Hulks and of the Colonies in New South Wales | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book... | Sydney Smith | Jonas Dennis | Convocatio Cleri | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | James McIntosh | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | Edward Copleston | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency and Prinsep on Money] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ... | Sydney Smith | Arthur Hallam | History Of Europe During The Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'. | Sydney Smith | William Heude | A Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m... | Sydney Smith | unknown | [article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m... | Sydney Smith | unknown | [article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a... | Sydney Smith | Ferdinando Galiani | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them t... | Sydney Smith | Ferdinando Galiani | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him ... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is ... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t... | Sydney Smith | [Captain] Gollownin | Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Defoe | Colonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertai... | Sydney Smith | [Captain] Gollownin | Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marr... | Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Monastery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published i... | Sydney Smith | Horace Walpole | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so tha... | Sydney Smith | Robert Southey | The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | The Beacon | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Giovanni Perrone | Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]:
'T... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861:
'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica | |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of ... | | | 'Italian play' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | [novel] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'. | Sydney Smith | Cockburn | [pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is t... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you ha... | Sydney Smith | John Gibson Lockhart | Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be bett... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have read Peveril, a middling production between his best and worst - rather agreeable than not'. | [Lady] Grey | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious pie... | Sydney Smith | Joseph Blanco White | Doblado's Letters from Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and there... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'. | Sydney Smith | Jacques Peuchet | Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-Antoinette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I ment... | Sydney Smith | Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby | Matilda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to ... | Sydney Smith | George Combe | [probably] A System of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curi... | Sydney Smith | George Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover | The true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron Mask | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | William Pitt Scargill [anon.] | Elizabeth Evanshaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | [anon.] | Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'. | Sydney Smith | Henry Gally Knight | Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Bu... | Sydney Smith | Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary | The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> oblit... | Sydney Smith | Clery | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a... | [Mrs] Beach | Clery | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of f... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Rennel [ed.] | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la Perouse | Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | George Vancouver | A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | Richard Lovell AND Maria Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Parr | 'Spital Sermon' | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Joshua Reynolds | Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Robert Orme | History of Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Rene Aubert Vertot | Revolutions of Portugal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Rene Aubert Vertot | History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jacques Benigne Bossuet | Oraisons Funebres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jean Baptiste Massillon | 'Petite Careme' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Barrow | [Select Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Edmund [??] Barrow | [??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Alison | Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to r... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be rig... | Sydney Smith | Mary Berry (ed.) | [Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and to Voltaire] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Edmund Burke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Suetonius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | William Godwin | The Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style;... | Sydney Smith | John Allen | [article in the Annual Register, 1806] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ru... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | [The Budget] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long ... | Sydney Smith | John Locke | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is im... | Sydney Smith | John Ferriar | Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Robert Ker Porter | Account of the Last Russian Campaign | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Milner | [Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish ... | Sydney Smith | Maria Edgeworth | Eunice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'. | Percy and Mary Shelley | Suetonius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | I. Casaubon (ed.) | Historia Augustana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'. | Mary Godwin | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Emilia Galotti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'. | Mary Godwin | Joanna Baillie | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a... | Mary Godwin | Joanna Baillie | Ethwald | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bryan Edwards | The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read view of the French Revolution'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the afternoon read Miss Bailie's plays' | Mary Godwin | Joanna Baillie | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revo... | Mary Godwin | Joanna Baillie | De Montfort | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revo... | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'. | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | The Remains of Henry Kirke White. With an account of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'. | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'. | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Tales of the castle' | Mary Godwin | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St aubin, Marquise de Silley, Comtesse de Genlis | Les Veilles du Chateau | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Bryan Edwards all evening' | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | he history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'look over Roderick - very unwell' | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Roderick; the last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Ode to France aloud and repeats the poem to tranquility'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 'France: An Ode' [from] Fears in Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges". | William Blake | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th... | William Blake | John Milton | Paradise Lost, vii, 29-30 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th... | William Blake | | Numbers 24:13 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato". [Blake is referring to a selection of influential authors/characters from... | William Blake | | Bible | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive... | William Blake | Homer | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learni... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon' | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Gibbon alloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'. | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'. | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.) | Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.) | Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'. | Mary Godwin | John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield | Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics] | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics] | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics] | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Seneca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics] | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics] | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb... | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb... | Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Boethius | De Consolatione Philosophiae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Bacon | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis... | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics] | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Corinne (42)'. | Mary Godwin | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | Corinne, ou d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne' | Mary Godwin | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | Corinne, ou d'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read talk and nurse - S reads the life of Chauser'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, including memoirs of John of Gaunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes the life of Chauser'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, including memoirs of John of Gaunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'find my baby dead-
Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'. | Mary Godwin | Isaac D' Israeli | Despotism; or the fall of the Jesuits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our o... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell y... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | R M Ballantyne | Martin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am getting on very well with Ovid.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ovid | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght
And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Traditional Ballad | Shan Van Voght | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy]. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Benjamin Disraeil | Alroy: a Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Bragelonne'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | Le Vicomte de Bragelonne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | .'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Broadway | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | ?Robert ?Wodrow | [MSS in the Advocates' Library] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Kingsley | Mademoiselle Mathilde | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads [first series] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | '1865-1866' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'S... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred Tennyson | The Lotus Eaters/St Simeon Stylites | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Horace | Book II Ode III | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Golden Legend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Wodrow | The History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ...
"Carve or discourse; do not famine fear,
Who carves is kind to two, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Herbert | The Temple: The Church Porch xxii | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A lady I know well was sitting by the fire one evening. She wanted something to read so she reached out a hand to the... | | Humbert Wolf | The Uncelestial City | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Well, I think I really didn't think they were going too well really. I read the leading article in the Chronicle... t... | | | Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read the article too. It shocked me. I think if it all had to be printed - I mean the advertisement - it was q... | | | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impress... | | unknown | To sing with the Angels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | "The 'Straight from the Beach at Dunkirk' you mean? I ask you....To be quite candid I've never seen anything so ridicu... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But... | | William and Martha Dodd | Ambassador Dodd's Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But... | | Tiberius G | Your M.P | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joi... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was ver... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Edward Young | Night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done ... | Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.' | Arnold Bennett | | Woman | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'Th... | Arnold Bennett | G. B. Shaw | The Quintessence of Ibsenism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend i... | Arnold Bennett | Havergall Bates | The Believing Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most imperso... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone | [article] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have ne... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Anticipations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfec... | Arnold Bennett | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | Coventry | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | article on Sir John Gorst | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instal... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The First Men on the Moon | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most intere... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Review of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.' | Arnold Bennett | Fr Graz | in Die Zeit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glo... | Arnold Bennett | George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902) | The House with the Green Shutters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are... | Arnold Bennett | | The Literary Year Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ... | Arnold Bennett | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | Some Peasant Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Lett... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shakespeare | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spiri... | Mary Godwin | Isaac D'Israeli | Despotism; or, the Fall of the Jesuits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Renaldini - talk with Shelley- in very bad spirits but get better'. | Mary Godwin | Christian August Vulpius | Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Rauberhauptmann | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spiri... | Mary Godwin | Christian August Vulpius | Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Rauberhauptmann | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and talk - still think about my little baby - 'tis hard indeed for a mother to loose a child - Hogg and C.[harle... | Mary Godwin | Bernard le Bouyer de Fontinelle | Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud' | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | John Black (trans.) | Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramatist) written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'. | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Simon Ockley | The Conquest of Syria, Persia and Aegypt, by the Saracens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Anne Louise Germaine de (Madame de) Stael | De la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | Ad Urbe Condita [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish... | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | Ad Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'. | Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | Ad Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talk and read the papers' | Mary Godwin | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read Hermsprong' | Mary Godwin | Robert Bage | Hermsprong: Or Man as he is not. A novel. By the Author of Man as he is | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read le diable boiteux [...] in the evening read le diable boiteux and play at chess'. | Mary Godwin | Alain Rene Lesage | Le Diable boiteux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - ... | Mary Godwin | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | Ad Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'. | Mary Godwin | Robert Bage | Man as He Is. A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'. | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Walter Scott | Rokeby; a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - g... | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | Rokeby; a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | [work in Italian] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast' | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido; tragicomedio pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Proph... | William Blake | John Milton | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "I shall not be able to avail myself of the assistance of Bruno's fairies." [Reference to writings of Giordano Bruno 1... | William Blake | Giordano Bruno | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ovid | Metamorphoses - story of Myrrha | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)' | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses (3rd fable) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Giovanni Battista Guiarini | Il pastor fido; tragicomedio pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid' | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses (4th and 5th fables) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'. | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley fi... | Mary Godwin | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley fi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Lodovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ovid | Metamorphoses (vii) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ... | Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read over the Ovid to Jefferson' | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'. | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles: a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner look over W. W.[ordsworth]'s Poems'. | Mary Godwin | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Claire Clairmont | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire [pseud.] | Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'. | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'. | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Seneca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Seneca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'. | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, com... | William Blake | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arrived 8.45 am, left 5.45. Left early with Mac's permission, though Bailey said he wouldn't risk it. Did 10 minutes ... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and stud... | | Lyndoe | unknown texts on Astrology | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I first read about it I thought to myself; "I don't think that's going to affect me at all; 66 coupons! Why, I s... | | | information on clothes rationing | Print: Unknown, could be news or pamphlets |
| 1900-1945 | '"I just went down the Post an' when I come back it was as flat as this 'ere wharfside - there was just my 'ouse like-... | | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto)' | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Quene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Quene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Seneca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto ... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Spenser | [The Faerie Queene?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto ... | Mary Godwin | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given se... | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Norway, Sweden and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given se... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary: a Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1814: all the titles have database entries based on journal entries about reading th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Petronius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Don Roderick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Lieden des jungen Werthers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | William Godwin | The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Charles James, Lord Holland Fox | A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | James Leigh Hunt (ed.) | The Reflector | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Charles Brockden Brown | Wieland; or, the transformation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | William Godwin | Fleetwood; or, the New Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Robert Paltock | The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de Reveries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Robert Southey | Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Gottfried August Burger | Lenore | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile; ou de l'education | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Paradise Lost | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | [anon.] | Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael | De l'Allemagne | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Augustine, l'abbe Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinism | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | William Beckford | Vathek | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | August von Kotzebue | Das merkwurdigste Jahr meines Lebens | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was glad to hear Mr. Remond's history from you, though the newspapers had given it to me [italics] en gros [italics].' | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | William Robertson | History of America | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Virgil | unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | Le Bible enfin explique | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | 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 | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | | New Testament | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poems | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d' Holbach | Systeme de la nature ou des loix du monde physique et du monde moral | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Thomas Chatterton | Poems | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Lycidas | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Edmund Burke | A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord **** | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Alexander Pope | The Iliad of Homer | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Sallust | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here is the work of one week of my solitude - by the many faults in it your Lordship will easily believe I spend no m... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Epictetus | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Francoise de Graffigny | Lettres d'une Peruvienne | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | 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) | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Charles Brockden Brown | Ormond; or, The Secret Witness | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Thomas Holcroft | Adventures of Hugh Trevor, The | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Eugene Labaume | Relation circonstanciee de la campagne de Russie | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Matthew Lewis | Tales of Terror | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Ann Radcliffe | Mysteries of Udolpho, The | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Alexander Pope | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Henry William Weber (ed.) | Tales of the East: Comprising the most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin and the Best Imitations by European Authors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Bacon & Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, & Pitt would prescribe distress for a Medical ... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Eugenia Wynne | [n/a] | [Gazettes / newspapers from paris] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles James Fox, Lord Holland | A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Paltock | Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey [anon.] | Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [anon.] | Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | August von Kotzebue | Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | New Testament, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Burke [anon.] | A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord **** | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sallust | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Eugene Labaume | Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Hesiod | Works and Days | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Bacon | Novum Organum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Theocritus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James MacPherson | The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPherson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Herodotus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thucydides | [probably History of the Peloponnesian War] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | [Iliad / Odyssey] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jean Antoine de Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Louis Maimbourg | Histoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance, jusqu'a sa fin, avec l'origine et le progres de l'heresie des sociniens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | | [the works listed above] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Carl Philipp Moritz | Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Pierre Jean Baptiste Legrand d' Aussy | Fabliaux ou contes du XII et du XIII si?cle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Basil Montagu (ed.) | The Opinions of different authors upon the punishment of Death, selected by Basil Montagu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | 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] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | William Godwin | Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Johann Friedrich von Schiller | Der Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Elizabeth, Lady Craven | A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Nicholas Rowe | The Fair Penitent: A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Carl Philipp Moritz | Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics to indicate PB Shelley's hand] 'In the evening I walk alone a long way by the lake. Read Julie all day [end i... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire' | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | [possibly] Romans et contes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'. | Mary Godwin | Mme de Genlis | Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'. | Mary Godwin | Voltaire (pseud.) | [possibly] Romans et contes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucretius | de Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and r... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucretius | de Rerum Natura | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and r... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pliny | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and r... | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters' | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pliny | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'. | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters' | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters' | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'. | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. D... | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. D... | Mary Godwin | Madame du Deffand | [life included in] Correspondence in?dite de Mme du Deffand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Mary Godwin | Virgil | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Mary Godwin | August H.J. Lafontaine | Carl Engelmann's Tagebuch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Gaius Plinius Secundus | Panegyricus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Gaius Plinius Secundus | Panegyricus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric... | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'. | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Ad?le et Th?odore; ou lettres sur l'?ducation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'. | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Mil... | William Blake | William Gilpin | 3 Essays on Picturesque Beauty | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the Ne... | | Jill Adams | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and view... | | | Monitor | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '...Naturally the Insurance Companies are feeling a bit sick and when the report is delved into, this is hardly to be ... | | | [Report into Insurance Companies' finances] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find ... | William Blake | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have very little feeling about them, especially in war-time. I used to admire what I read about them and their tidi... | | | news | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Unconditional surrender. I don't think America will allow us to do anything different. I read the other day where Cor... | | Cordell Hull | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He now referred to two sheets of paper, which he had with him, saying that he was late (no apologies) because he had... | | | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read how delayed demobilisation after the last war led to disaffection and mutiny among the troops: but it see... | | | news | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except w... | | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then B. went shopping while I lay on the divan and read Proust, which I continued to do most of the evening, except w... | | Ellis | Sunlight on Parnassus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'a friend of mine read in the paper that some people had recently left Italy for America. She says they are the Italia... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read ... | | Mary Border | Passport for a girl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scien... | | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scien... | | Dunne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My personal opinion of margarine has quite changed owing to the arrival of this questionnaire. My mother opened it by... | | | questionnaire about margarine | Print: Broadsheet, Questionnaire / survey sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'She goes on: "I read the advertisements stating margarine's superiority to butter with a quiet smile, and a mental th... | | | advertisements about margarine | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspape... | | | leaflets | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I have skimmed through the leaflets, and put them in a letter file. I haven't read anything else except newspape... | | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Thomson | The seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fa... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Gray | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [Elegy 15] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Walter Scott | [Elegy 1] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where
?Winter lingering chills the lap ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | [The traveller] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | unknown | [Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.' | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I translate in the evening and read le vieux de la Montagne' | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read le vieux de la montagne and write' | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'. | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the old man of the mountains - translate & read one book of the conjuration de Rienzi'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Antoine du Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Walther and some of Rienzi' | Mary Godwin | Jean Antoine du Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Walther and some of Rienzi' | Mary Godwin | August H.J. Lafontaine | Walther oder das Kind vom Schlachtfeld | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - ... | Mary Godwin | August H.J. Lafontaine | Walther oder das Kind vom Schlachtfeld | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - ... | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | [possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to comp... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust m... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Harvey | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my wi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | The minstrel; or , the progress of genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make thi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Fortieth oration | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Cla... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom P... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [Satire VI?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almos... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Eliosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, ar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [?Night Thoughts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on pape... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Address to simplicity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people alw... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Rochefoucault | [Maxims and moral reflections?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazz... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werter | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last sectio... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Gregory | A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The traveller | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with c... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | To ruin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Mary Wollstonecroft | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [?Emile] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are... | Richard Solly | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are... | Michael Solly | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are... | Stephen Solly | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Helen Maria Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of D... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Dryden | [Tales from Chaucer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone | [Sketches?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they praye... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Macpherson | The poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | [Poems] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Peter Pindar | [Poems] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who e... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read th... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | [Life and letters of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Cowper | The task | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charm... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Campbell | Pleasures of hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock | unknown | Unknown |
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1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure ple... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it wa... | Arthur Vanson | unknown | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | Life and letters of William Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My brothers and I have lived the book ["Treasure Island"] many times and the Bois de Boulogne is full of places that ... | Arthur Vanson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I try to read always with a very open mind, wide away [awake?] to assimilate all the author's knowledge. I have suc... | Arthur Vanson | Pierre de Coulerain | Au Coeur de la Vie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | ["Parisian philosophers"] | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Rhoda Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Harry Richmans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | Professor Seccombe | [articles in the "Bookman"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told ... | Lesley Edna Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a ... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs.
She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is some... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening' | Mary Godwin | [unknown] | [a novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Les Voeux t?m?raires; ou l'enthousiasme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi' | Mary Godwin | Jean Antoine de Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Hermann d'Unna' | Mary Godwin | Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert | Hermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten der Vehmgerichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go... | Mary Godwin | Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert | Hermann von Unna, eine Geschicte aus den Zeiten der Vehmgerichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go... | Mary Godwin | Jean Antoine du Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [John] Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [John] Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis' | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes moraux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Germania | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after di... | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes Moreaux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after di... | Mary Godwin | Jean Antoine du Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Germania | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Honore Jean, Baron de Riouffe | Memoires d'un detenu pour servir a l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Tacitus | Germania | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 'Christabel' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu | Caroline de Lichtfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu | Caroline de Lichtfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes moraux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Charles R. Maturin | Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 'Christabel' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | [n/a] | Quarterly Review, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | Paradise lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Ch... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baudelaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads "histoire de la Revolution par Rabault".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | P.J. Rabaut Saint-Etienne | Precis histoire de la Revolution francaise redige par P.J. Rabaut | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le... | Mary Godwin | [unknown] | Le Criminel Secret | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Mrs Robinson's Valcenza'. | Mary Godwin | Mary Robinson | Vancenza; or the Dangers of Credulity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work' | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Chrononhotonthologus' | Mary Godwin | Henry Carey | Chrononhotonthologos; the most tragical tragedy that ever was tragedized etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio: a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | Jean Antoine Du Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and read the memoirs of the princess of Bareith' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Barieth | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Memoirs aloud' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Barieth | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read the letters of Emile'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the letters of Emile and read a part of Clarissa Harlowe'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VI of Clarissa'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays' | Mary Godwin | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, could have been original periodicals or later collected volumes |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Bareith | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Peter Pindar [pseud.] | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the Fr... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles Jean Dominque de Lacretelle | Precis historique de la Revolution Francaise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the Fr... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucian | [satirical / philosophical dialogues] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the Fr... | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by
Elizabeth Missing Sewell ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run
by Elizabeth Missing ... | 'Rosie' | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst
en poste with him in Ch... | Sir Robert Hart | unknown | [Light French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser on her son (having just described his Chinese nursemaid's indulgent
treatment of him):
'He retain... | | Mrs. Mary Beeton | [cookery book] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Laetus cost me 2s. 6d. My wife bet me 2s. 6d. I couldn't read it aloud without crying. I thought I could. But after a... | Revd. Going | Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing | Laetus Sorte Mea or The Story of a Short Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not gi... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | Thomas Gray | Elegy written in a country churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | David Hume | Essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft' | Mary Godwin | Margrave de Barieth | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the memoirs aloud and begin the life of Holcroft' | Mary Godwin | Thomas Holcroft | Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Holcroft | Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' | Mary Godwin | Thomas Holcroft | Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'. | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'. | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'. | Mary Godwin | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknwon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Magrave de Bareith | M?moires de Fr?d?rique Sophie Wilhelmine de Prusse, Margrave de Barieth; ?crits de sa main | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell' | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell' | Mary Godwin | Charles R. Maturin | The Milesian Chief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.' | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.' | Mary Godwin | Charles Maturin | Milesian Chief, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.' | Mary Godwin | Thomas Holcroft | Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland and the Netherlands, to Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.' | Mary Godwin | Madame de Genlis | Alphonsine; ou la tendresse maternelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Montaigne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel' | Mary Godwin | Sydney Owenson | O'Donnel: a national tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ... | Mary Godwin | Humphrey Davy | Elements of Chemical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ... | Mary Godwin | 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 . . . | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Mary Godwin and Percy shelley | Humphrey Davy | Elements of Chemical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Mary Godwin | E. Ysbrants Ides | Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bill of mortality | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse abo... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [Discourse on the River Thames] | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked a... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and ... | Samuel Pepys | King Charles II | His Majesties declaration against the French | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence by coach, and falling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of thi... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Potter | An interpretation of the number 666 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to the office - where, among other businesses, Mr Evelyn's proposition about public Infirmarys was read and a... | Samuel Pepys | John Evelyn | [proposition about public infirmaries] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about... | Samuel Pepys | James Humphrey | [MS Collections] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read s... | Samuel Pepys | [boys in the upper forms at Eaton] | De pests [Bacchus verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph -
"Hic Jacet primu... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [epitaph on memorial stone] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1600-1699 | 'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Bill of mortality | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster |
| 1600-1699 | 'I was at it till past 2 a-clock on Monday morning, and then read my vows and to bed' | Samuel Pepys | | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of m... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage... | John Nutting | various | Miscellany of verse | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Susan Glaspell | Road to the Temple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | C.E. Montague | Right off the Map | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rose Macauley | Keeping Up Appearances | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Olwen Ward Campbell | Shelley and the Unromantics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be ve... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Carl Van Vechten | Nigger Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rebecca West | The Strange Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oswald Spengler | Decline of the West | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de Chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Berg... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Julian Benda | Belphegor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and k... | Winifred Agnes Moore | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Mahatma Gandhi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Katherine Mayo | Mother India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterp... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Oakroyd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Theodore de Banville | Gringoire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Le Blois Vert | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Margaret Steen | Matador | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oliver Onions | The Open Secret | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Arthur Cecil Pigou | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Montague | D?senchantement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Gabouis | Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Francois Mauriac | Les Anges Noirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Alexander Werth | Before Munich | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Deladier | [collection of speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Paul Maraud | Rond Point des Champs Elys?es | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Philip Carr | The French at Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Life of Turgot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Albert Guerard | French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him pe... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Life of Orage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Ford Madox Ford | Provence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ev... | Winifred Agnes Moore | A.L. Bacharach | The Musical Companion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it thr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Leon Daudet | Clemenceau | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Havelock Ellis | From Rousseau to Proust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | D.W. Brogan | The Development of Modern France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Edna Ferber | A Peculiar Treasure | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage... | John Susan | various | Miscellany of verse | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...' | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Revisky | Hafiz | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Christopher Marlowe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Fletcher | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Webster | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...' | Mounstuart Elphinstone | Timur | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of th... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | The Proceedings of the Secret Committee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lindley Murray | English grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a s... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Orme | Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for... | anon | William Wordsworth | The Excursion (excerpts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Henry Strachey | A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lor... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | New Testament Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary D... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | George Sale | Preliminary discourse to the Koran | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Matthew | Matthew 2:1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mangall | Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | [texts on French history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joyce | Scientific Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William?] Jones | Commentarii | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar"... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Gilchrist | Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's "Gulistan" t... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Sa'adi | Bostan | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin sho... | anon | Petrus de Palude [?] | Sermones thesauri novi de tempore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | E. Ysbrants Ides | Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'. | Mary Godwin | Humphrey Davy | Elements of Chemical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne' | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Draw and read Bryan Perdue' | Mary Godwin | Thomas Holcroft | Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'. | Mary Godwin | Thomas Holcroft | Memoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P... | Hannah Woolley | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P... | Hannah Woolley | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison] | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'A poor day-labourer in the town ... had an old torn book which he lent my father, which was called "Bunny's Resolutio... | Richard Baxter | Robert Parsons | Bunny's Resolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'A poor day-labourer in the town ... had an old torn book which he lent my father, which was called "Bunny's Resolutio... | Richard Baxter | Dr Sibbes | Bruised Reed | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Maria Edgeworth (anon.) | Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | History of Sir Charles Grandison, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Locke.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Jonathan Swift | Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read old voyages.' | Mary Godwin | [unknown] | [old voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.' | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'. | Mary Godwin | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden t... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Thomas Ridley | A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work in the evening - & read Les Incas' | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des... | Samuel Pepys | Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy | L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter... | Mary Godwin | Quintus Curtius Rufus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [Life of Alexander] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Thomas Ridley | A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice' | Mary Godwin | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read two odes of Horace' | Mary Godwin | Horace | [odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch... | Mary Godwin | John Locke | An Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch... | Mary Godwin | Horace | [odes] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Thomas Ridley | A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch... | Mary Godwin | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... Of Hafiz, I read 143 Odes in succe... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Hafiz | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and g... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Francis Walsingham | Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborou... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Middleton | The Mayor of Quinborough | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the w... | Samuel Pepys | Corneille | Pompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Translated out of French by certain Persons of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.' | Samuel Pepys | E.C. Davila | Storia delle guerre civile di Francia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.' | Samuel Pepys | John Dryden | The Rival Ladies | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proce... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Declaration of the proceedings of the victualling action | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as en... | Samuel Pepys | John Creed | The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.' | Samuel Pepys | John Dryden | The Rival Ladys | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we... | Samuel Pepys | John Creed | The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we... | Sir William Penn | John Creed | The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pl... | Samuel Pepys | Sir William Davenant | The Seige of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".' | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Samuel Tuke | The Adventures of the five houres | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end o... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Samuel Tuke | The Adventures of the five houres | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play;... | Samuel Pepys | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Ja... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Jalaluddin | Masnavi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | Port Royal Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | Eton Selecta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Phaedrus | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Horace | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Petronius | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Torquato] Tasso | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | [Italian Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Niccolo] Machiavelli | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Francis] Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Hume | Dialogue on natural religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [George] Berkeley | The principles of human knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.' | Tom | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in c... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [manuscript on naval expenses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by ... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Rycault, Esq. secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea, Embassadour Extraordinary for His Majesty Charles the Second etc. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth, Emperour of the Turks | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Pu... | Samuel Pepys | Edward Stillingfleet | A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I ... | John Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and b... | Samuel Pepys | Philip Massinger | The Bondman | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and b... | Samuel Pepys | John Webster | The Duchesse of Malfy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Potter | An interpretation of the number 666 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and the... | Samuel Pepys | John Webster | The Duchess of Malfy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but hi... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Potter | An interpretation of the Number 666 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and th... | Samuel Pepys | Joseph Glanvill | Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.' | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | A free enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambr... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | A letter from Rome | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | [Dissertations in Latin and English] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | [Cicero] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] Condorcet | The Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] Warburton | Tracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Carlo] Denina | Revolutions of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Samuel] Johnson | Lives [of the most eminent English poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [James] Boswell | Life of [Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Voltaire | Louis XIV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Mary Godwin | John Locke | Essay concerning Humane Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Mary Godwin | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Mary Godwin | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Mary Godwin | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r... | Mary Godwin | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix' | Mary Godwin | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]' | Mary Godwin | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]' | Mary Godwin | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read rights of women' | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero' | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero' | Mary Godwin | Cicero | [Opuscula - Minor Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son' | Mary Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Cicero | De Senectute | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Fanny Burney | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield' | Mary Godwin | Fanny Burney | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield' | Mary Godwin | Cicero | de Senectute | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon' | Mary Shelley | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon'
| Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [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 Godwin | James Leigh Hunt | Story of Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Leigh Hunt | Story of Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Theocritus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Moschus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon | Les Adventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Blackwell | Memoirs of the Court of Augustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate en... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Lord Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the lay sermon'. | Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Statesman's Manual, or the Bible the best guide to political skill and foresight: a lay sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester' | Mary Shelley | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester' | Mary Shelley | James Shirley | Gamester, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont' | Mary Shelley | Anthony Hamilton | M?moires de la vie du Comte de Grammont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Life of Clarendon' | Mary Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | De Republica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Genlis | Les Chevaliers du cygne; ou la cour de Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lady Barker | Letters from New Zealand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Kennan | Tent Life in Siberia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. A. Froude | Short Essays on Great Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Count Beugnot | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'C... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Frederick William Robinson | Christie's Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. G. Sharp | Culture and Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [John?] Aikin | Essay on the use of natural history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Waller | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Cowley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Butler | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Denham | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Pope | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Dryden | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] [Gifford] | The Baviad and the Maeviad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Erasmus] Darwin | Botanic Garden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] [Mason] | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | [Latin poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Jean de La Fontaine | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Friedrich] Schiller | The robbers [and two other plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Gesner | Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux] | Satires [and other works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Horace Walpole | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Thomas] Jefferson | Virginia [Notes on state of] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Ramsay | Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, receiv... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 13 February 1822 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. | Thomas Carlyle | John Milton | Prose works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. | Thomas Carlyle | George Fox | Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of George Fox | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stew... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Mary Stewart | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.' | Samuel Pepys | | [vowes] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alph... | Samuel Pepys | [Samuel and John] Pepys | [Catalogue of his books] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Henry More | An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discou... | Samuel Pepys | Andrew Marvell | Third Advice to a paynter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a v... | Samuel Pepys | Desiderius Erasmus | De conscribendis epistolis | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the c... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he rea... | John Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Catalogue of books] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Dri... | Samuel Pepys | John Dryden | Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the sa... | Samuel Pepys | Dr George Hakewill | An apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the world | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [petty-warrants] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech t... | Samuel Pepys | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a ... | Samuel Pepys | William Lloyd | The late apology in behalf of the papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the royallists | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Speed | The history of Great Britaine | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | History of the worthies of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he ha... | Samuel Pepys | John Birchensha | Templum Musicum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very goo... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Morely | A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Mus... | Samuel Pepys | John Playford | A brief introduction to the skill of musick | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; an... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", p... | Samuel Pepys | George Mackenzie | Religio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the phanaticks of all sects and sorts | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a sm... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | ''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.'
Pepys records the follo... | Samuel Pepys | Richard Hooker | Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.'
Pepys records the follo... | Samuel Pepys | William Dugdale | The Origines Juridiciales | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.'
Pepys records the follo... | Samuel Pepys | John Playford | Catch that catch can, or The musical companion | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So t... | Samuel Pepys | William Dugdale | Origines Juridiciales | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to read more in the Origines' | Samuel Pepys | William Dugdale | Origines Juridiciales | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Co... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with ... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.' | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | London Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Samuel] [Parr] | Bellendenus [preface to] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Japher | Farriery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | Life of Major Geshpill | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Etudes de la Nature [abstract of] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | | The Nation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | [Novels innumerable] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Cumberlands memoirs' | Mary Shelley | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Junius - Rain all day - work' | Mary Shelley | Junius [pseud.] | Letters of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work and read Junius read Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Junius [pseud.] | Letters of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work and read Junius read Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | De Republica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | De Republica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis' | Mary Shelley | Robert Southey | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the arcadia and Amadis' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read journey to the World Underground' | Mary Shelley | Ludwig Holberg | Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Restoration' | Mary Shelley | George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers | The Restoration; or Right will take place | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Rehearsal' | Mary Shelley | George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Villiers | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Arcadia' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, THe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting' | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the arcadia & the world underground' | Mary Shelley | Ludwig Holberg | Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tales of my Landlord' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Tales of my Landlord' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Salmasis and Hermaphroditus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Cupid's Revenge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Philip Sidney | Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so after supper to read and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constab... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [table-book] | Manuscript: table-book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcass... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir William Batten | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir William Penn | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir John Minnes | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duk... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as... | Samuel Pepys | Isaak Walton | Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Isaak Walton | Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her' | Samuel Pepys | Madeleine de Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Wild-goose Chase, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Round Table' | Mary Shelley | William Hazlitt | Round Table, The: A Collection of Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord [First Series - The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | [several works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Alcestes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | Alcestes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the bible'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny.' | Mary Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Political Justice.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.' | Mary Shelley | Pliny | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | [History of the French Revolution] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | MacBeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Apuleius | Metamorphoses; or, The Golden Ass | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'. | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer ... | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | Manuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'. | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Metamorphoses; or, the Golden Ass | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Anna St Ives' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives' | Mary Shelley | Suetonius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Defoe' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read and fin. City of the Plague' | Mary Shelley | John Wilson | City of the Plague, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel' | Mary Shelley | Maria Edgeworth | Comic dramas, in three acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel' | Mary Shelley | Frances Holcroft | Fortitude and Frailty: a novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to m... | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish F[anny] H.[olcroft]'s novel - read Suetonius' | Mary Shelley | Frances Holcroft | Fortitude and Frailty: a novel' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly Review' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh: an Oriental Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Homer and writes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads St Helena Manuscript'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux | Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript' | Mary Shelley | J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux | Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply... | Mary Shelley | John Davis | Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Cursory Strictures on the charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre; A Reply to an answer to Cursory Strictures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon | |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Gottlieb Buhle | Geschichte der neuern Philosophie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Buffon in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. | Mary Shelley | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Arrian | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Arrian | Historia Indica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Faithfull Shepheardesse, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Arrian's Historia Indicae [sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Arrian | Historia Indica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julie - S reads Homer' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julie - S reads Homer' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Faithfull Shepheardesse, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe... | Mary Shelley | Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Mary Shelley | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Homer's Hymns' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschlyus | Prometheus Bound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer a... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschlyus | [several plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer a... | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Mary Shelley | Maria Edgeworth | Harrington, a tale, and Ormond, a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Mary Shelley | Charles Brockden Brown | Arthur Mervyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Convivium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays, with Fletcher] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | The Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's Revels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Volpone, or the Foxe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Alchymist, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a goo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon) | The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry George Bohn | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Honore de Balzac | Contes Drolatiques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven." | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice i... | Arnold Bennett | | Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details | Print: newspaper placard |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barrin... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Food of the Gods | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Pu... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Romance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and P... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Country of the Blind | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Scepticism of the Instrument | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, I got rather a curiosity - Lieder und Balladen von Robert Burns, translated by one Silbergleit, and not so ill... | Robert Louis Stevenson | L G Silbergleit | Robert Burns' Lieder und Balladen [etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Scepticism of the Instrument | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince m... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | 'The Schoolmaster and the Empire | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . ' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Chicago article was very good.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember obj... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Whom God Hath Joined | Manuscript: or published book? |
| 1900-1945 | 'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' | Arnold Bennett | Bart Kennedy | America Revisited | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud; A Monodrama | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Roman Law...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [Roman law] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading...Calvin.'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | John Calvin | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody shou... | | Lady Roberts | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to wa... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no id... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I ... | | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have two children, 2? years and 1 year old. Though in some respects I would not object to increasing my family, qui... | | | Reader's Digest | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays, with Fletcher] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the fall of Sejanus' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sejanus his Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | [anon.] | Rhoda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Jane Porter | Pastor's Fireside, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | The Missionary: An Indian Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | Wild Irish Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | M.G. Lewis | Anaconda, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Percy | Northern Antiquities; or a description of the manners, customs, reliogion and laws of the ancient Danes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Catiline his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan' | Mary Shelley | Alicia Lefanu | Strathallan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Intercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-Bag | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | John Davis | Travels in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finish miseries of human life' | Mary Shelley | James Beresford | Miseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. With a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and les lettres d'una Peruviana' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Graffigny | Lettres d'une Peruvienne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'. | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Cupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'. | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Baruch de Spinoza | Tractatus Theologico-politicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Apuleius' | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Golden Ass, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rousseau's letters.' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Rousseau's letters' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs specimens.' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shelley's pamphlet.' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read George Dandin' | Mary Shelley | Moliere (pseud.) | George Dandin; ou le mari confondu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Zapolya: a Christmas tale in two parts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mathilde et Eugenie' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Souza | Eug?nie et Mathilde, ou les m?moires de la famille du Comte de Revel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Family of Montorio' | Mary Shelley | Charles R. Maturin | Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Family of Montorio' | Mary Shelley | Charles R. Maturin | Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | read Tacitus and le Testament' | Mary Shelley | August H. J. Lafontaine | Das Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson [trans.] | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Laon and Cythna | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Laon and Cythna | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson (trans.) | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | In the Days of the Comet | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.'
| Arnold Bennett | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers. I think the paper is very interesting.' | Arnold Bennett | | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be pr... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | review of 'The Real India' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of ... | Arnold Bennett | Nevile Foster | The Universal Machine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the "D?peche de To... | Arnold Bennett | | Depeche de Toulouse | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [Roman law] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribe Peacocks poem' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Love Peacock | Rhododaphne; or, the Thessalian Spell | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Rights of man.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads & finishes Coleridge's Liteerary [sic] life' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria; or Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hume' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Essays and treatises on several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Berkeley' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Berkeley | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Berkeley | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Lady Morgans "France".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | The Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "France"' | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon' | Mary Shelley | Joshua Pickersgill | Three Brothers, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the three brothers' | Mary Shelley | Joshua Pickersgill | Three Brothers, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | ['Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | | Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Epistles, Odes and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate en... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Apuleius | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels' | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes Homer's Hymns' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'. | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Terence | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the Andria of Terence & Guy Mannering' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Andria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Eunuchus of Terence - walk - S reads Gibbon' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Eunuchus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Four Dissertations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Heautontimorumenos of Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Heautontimorumenos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | [probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy.' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, whe... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | First and Last Things | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris. Naturally I was the reviewer. Harris was much moved by the... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Bomb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Tono Bungay | Print: Book, proofs of novel |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Edward Garnett,
(For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.).... | Arnold Bennett | Edward Garnett | review of 'The Old Wives' Tale' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose ... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs Laurence Binyon | Nineteenth Century Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edward Garnett | introductions to novels by Turgenev | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Shakespeare and his Love | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Man Shakespeare | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | S.T. Coleridge | Shakesperian Criticism (?) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, &... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Unpath'd Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France h... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | The Procurator of Judaea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read th... | Arnold Bennett | El?mir Bourges | La Nef | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and... | William Henry Hudson | Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and... | William Henry Hudson | Sir Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire | Zadig, ou la destinee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Rob. Roy' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read H. Monteagle.' | Mary Shelley | Alicia Lefanu | Helen Monteagle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Giaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lara' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's critique on Rhododaphne' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [critique of Rhododaphne] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 plays in the ancient drama' | Mary Shelley | [anon (ed)] | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the merry beggars. Elvira' | Mary Shelley | Richard Brome | Jovial Crew, A; or the Merry Beggars | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the merry beggars. Elvira' | Mary Shelley | George Digby | Elvira; or, the worst not always true | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Italian operas - Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [Italian operas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Italian operas - Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne and Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read voyage to Corea' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud [to] us - We sleep at Rheims.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | August W. von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud and we travel on in a pleasant country among nice people - We sleep at Dijon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | August W. von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pietro Antonio Serassi | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Moliere's Plays' | Mary Shelley | Moliere [pseud.] | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read an Italian Translation of Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pietro Antonio Serassi | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Hamlet' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mandeville' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us' | Claire Clairmont | Francoise Clarisse Manson | M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristppe und einige seiner Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy' | Percy Shelley | Walter Scott | Roby Roy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's... | Samuel Pepys | John Evelyn | Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where... | Samuel Pepys | John Evelyn | Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After supper, I to read and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the Ri... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book i... | Samuel Pepys | George Cavendish | The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ... written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usher | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company ... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | [gravestones] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1600-1699 | 'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vex... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders;... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian Majesty | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The... | Samuel Pepys | Roger L'Estrange [translator] | The visions of Don Francisco de Quevedo | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.' | Samuel Pepys | William Lilly | Merlini Anglici Ephemeris | Print: Book, almanac |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble read... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Edward Coke | The third part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: concerning High Treason, and other pleas of the Crown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's reven... | | [unknown] | [order of council] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport... | Samuel Pepys | Andrew Marvell | The second and third advice to a painter, for drawing the history of our navall actions, the last two years | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he h... | John Creed | [unknown] | Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and inn... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostat... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at t... | Samuel Pepys | John Speed | The history of Great Britaine | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and to my chamber to read' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite de... | Samuel Pepys | Robert Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristipp und einige Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Horace | [1st Ode] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Geschichte der Abderiten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a french translation of Lucien [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides' | Mary Shelley | Lucian | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mille et un nuits' | Mary Shelley | Antoine Galland | Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finish Gozzi's play of Zobeide' | Mary Shelley | Carlo Gozzi | La Zobeide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | Hippolitus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi' | Mary Shelley | Carlo Gozzi | L'amore delle tre melerance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Adelphi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Adelphi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish copying the Cenci' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Phormio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd Canto of Oriosto [sic] & Mille et une nuits in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Antoine Galland | Les Mille et une Nuits: contes arabes traduits en francois par M.G. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been private... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Man Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have also been making a study of "The Country House". You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote Englis... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Country House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read... | Arnold Bennett | Cedric Sharpe | Song | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Philoctetes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Phormio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Alzire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Ajax | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Ajax | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Mahomet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Merope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | La Tragedie de Semiramis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancrede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | L'Orphelin de Chine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Le Cid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Cinna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille' | Mary Shelley | Pierre Corneille | Polyeucte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads the alcestis [sic] of Euripides.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | Alceste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Xenophon | Memorabilia Socratis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon' | Mary Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'. | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Xenophon | Memorabilia socratis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aristophanes | Clouds, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aristophanes | Clouds, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Mary Shelley | Horace | [3rd Ode] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aristophanes | Plutus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aristophanes | Lysistratae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Mary Shelley | Horace | [Odes 6 and 7] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J-J Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J-J Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she do... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to M... | Samuel Pepys | Katherine Phillips | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the w... | Samuel Pepys | Andrew Marvell | Directions to a painter for describing our naval business ... by an unknown author | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish party | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted t... | Samuel Pepys | Richard Rhodes | Flora's Vagaries | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Speed | The history of Great Britaine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.)... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Helen with the High Hand | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' | Arnold Bennett | Ren Ghil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' | Arnold Bennett | Emile Verhaeren | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on you... | Arnold Bennett | | Westminster Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.' | Arnold Bennett | Edmund Rostand | unknown | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this n... | Samuel Pepys | Richard Garnet | The book of oaths ... very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracy or publique employment | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth i... | Henry Moore | Sir Edward Coke | Institutes of the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's "Church History"' | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came ... | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from th... | Richard Gibson | [n/a] | Books containing the abstracts of orders | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, ... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, wh... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [letter to Sir Robert Brookes] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the... | Samuel Pepys | David Lloyd | Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then home to read, sup and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how pe... | Samuel Pepys | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadv... | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | [office letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadv... | Will Hewer | [n/a] | [office letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I wa... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and when came home there, I got my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Davies [transl] | The history of Algiers and its slavery | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading' | Samuel Pepys | John Davies [transl] | The history of Algiers and its slavery | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Here was mighty good discourse, as there is alway; and among other things, my Lord Crew did turn to a place in the "L... | Lord Crew | Sir Fulke Greville | Life of the renowned Sir Phillip Sidney | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have... | Samuel Pepys | Michel Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Fill... | Samuel Pepys | Michel Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what dot... | Samuel Pepys | Michel Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below s... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Memorandums and Conclusions of the Navy Board | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wro... | Samuel Pepys | Duchess of Newcastle | The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.' | Samuel Pepys | Duchess of Newcastle | The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' | Balthasar St Michael | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obr... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [street ballads] | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the " Character", and so to bed.'
(... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.' | Balthasar St Michael | Samuel de Sorbiere | voyage into England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, where... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | Mustapha | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as... | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowa... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Report] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Report] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order ... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | Principal Officer's instructions | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop... | Samuel Pepys | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [paper on the faults of the Navy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther... | Matthew Wren | [unknown] | [paper on the faults of the Navy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther... | James, Duke of York | [unknown] | [paper on the faults of the Navy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and all morning at the office << where the Duke of York's long letter was read, to their great trouble and their ... | Samuel Pepys | James, Duke of York | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ... | Sir William Coventry | Samuel Pepys | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [draft of the victualler's contract] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c... | Sir William Penn | [unknown] | [draft of the victualler's contract] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c... | Lord Brouncker | [unknown] | [draft of the victualler's contract] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do t... | Samuel Pepys | Abraham Wright | Five sermons in five several styles | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my let... | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'My boy was with me, and read to me all day' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter v... | Robert Louis Stevenson | a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end itali... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whethe... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then he to read to me the "Life of Archbishopp Laud", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which ... | Richard Gibson | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about... | | John Dryden | A defence of an essay | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about... | | Richard Flecknoe [?] | A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to read and sup; and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing bu... | Samuel Pepys | William Penn | Truth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony against those religions, faiths and worships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and did get my wife to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence with W. Penn home, and there to get my people to read and to supper and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelie... | Elizabeth Pepys | William Habington | The Queene of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelie... | William Batelier | William Habington | The Queene of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so m... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [paper on naval business] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so m... | Matthew Wren | Samuel Pepys | [paper on naval business] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so made the boy read to me' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, ... | Deborah Willet | Samuel Pepys | [note] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [letter with corrections by Matthew Wren] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".' | | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth... | Elizabeth Pepys | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.' | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent p... | Elizabeth Pepys | L.G. de Cordemoy | A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles ... Englished out of French | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk' | William Hewer | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | William Davenant | The siege of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | unknown | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand n... | | Clement Edmonds | 'Life' prefaced to 'The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand n... | | Renatus Descartes | Compendium: Renatus DesCartes excellent compendium of musick: By a Person of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper a... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and to supper and read' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper and read' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and home, my wife to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | William Battelier | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | William Battelier | [unknown] | Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politiques OR Relation de l'establissement de la Compagnie Fran?oise pour le commerce des Indes Orientales | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of En... | Elizabeth Pepys | Edward Chamberlayne | Angliae Notitia; or The present state of England: together with divers reflections upon the ancient state thereof | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I f... | Elizabeth Pepys | William Penn | The sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines, of one God, subsisting in three distinct and separate persons, the impossibility of God's pardoning sinners, without a plenary satisfaction, ... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putti... | Elizabeth Pepys | Middleton | [Middleton's memorandum] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own h... | Sir William Coventry | Sir William Coventry | [record of discourse upon business of Lord Clarendon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, ... | Tom Edwards | [unknown] | [Report of the reforming commission of 1618] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, the... | Tom Edwards [?] | [unknown] | [Report of the reforming commission of 1618] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to ... | | [unknown] | [documents on the history of the Navy] | Manuscript: Roll |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, m... | Tom Edwards | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.' | Tom Edwards | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory ... | William Hewer | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of Yor... | | Samuel Pepys | [defence of the existing constitution of the Navy Board] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to... | Elizabeth Pepys | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.' | Tom Edwards | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to her, and she read to me the "Epistle of Cassandra", which is very good endeed, and the better to her beca... | Elizabeth Pepys | La Calpren?de | Cassandra | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so... | Elizabeth Pepys | Silas Taylor | The Serenade, or Disappointment | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back a... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Wild | Upon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor and the noble company of bachelors dining with him, May 5th, 1669 | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery. Yesterday in the "London" edition, not a word (excep... | Arnold Bennett | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The New M is a magnificent work.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s ... | Arnold Bennett | William Dean Howells | 'Easy Chair' column | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.L. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.A. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | S.D. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.H. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | R.T. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.T. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.T. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | T.S. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.M. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | D.Y. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | H.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.K. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.D. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.R. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | T.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | T.C. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.G. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.S. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.W. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.D. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | H.J. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | S.K. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | H.J.T. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.T. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.P. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | H.S. al D. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | F.J.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | R.L. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.S. al E. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | E.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | E.M. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.M. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.R. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.R. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.S. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.G. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.P. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.H. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.R. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | J.M. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.C. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | R.F. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | B.C. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | W.J. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | R.A., alias J.F.: 'He [uncle] sent me to an excellent school where I stayed two years. After leaving school I perused ... | R.A. | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | William McCarty, convicted for burglary, sentenced to seven years' transportation: 'As regards my religious character,... | William McCarty | Tom Paine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | J.M., convict sentenced to transportation, writing to Rev. Joseph: 'I am at present amongst sin and wickedness of the ... | J.M. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | P.C., transport convict, writing to Rev Joseph from Dartmoor prison, Devon: 'When I read over the Book of Joshua, I of... | P.C. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfort... | S.G. | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | W.B., transport convict writing to Rev Joseph from Portland Prison: 'by the blessing of God, after coming to this plac... | W.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Case study, E.E.S., a Jew, young man of respectable German family, at first confined in a common prison where associat... | E.E.S. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
Wed 29 October: 'I was interrogated by several prisoners this evenin... | prisoners at Pentonville | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian G... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life,... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he a... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art... | anon | [unknown] | [book on the Protestant martyrs] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard... | anon | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard... | anon | [n/a] | [Sunday newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading ... | anon | [unknown] | [novels and romances] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I h... | Arnold Bennett | Andre Gide | Nouveaux Pr?textes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in... | Arnold Bennett | Upton Sinclair | Love's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the edi... | Arnold Bennett | | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Hortulus Anime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly rou... | Arnold Bennett | Dr Peter Mark Roget | Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | The Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciled | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Anacharsis'. | Mary Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu quatrieme siecle avant le vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We read Anacharsis' | Mary and Percy Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H... | Mary Shelley | Horace | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | The Maides Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Philaster; or Love lyes a-bleeding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas... | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | A King and No King | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Laws of Candy, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Wife for a Month, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it' | Mary Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Aminta - Read Livy - Transcribe the Symposium - Read the Revolt of Islam' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Bartholomew Fayre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sophie Garschine | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1450-1499
1500-1599 | 'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is con... | Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory | Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1450-1499
1500-1599 | 'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is con... | | Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even eight-year-old Willy [Godwin] went once in a while to hear his Papa [William Godwin]'s friend [S. T. Coleridge] ... | William Godwin jr | various | lecture on 'The Influence of Government on the Character of the People' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away
[from dirty hotel at vil... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | &'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away
[from dirty hotel at vi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | &'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away
[from dirty hotel at vi... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 24th. Read Abbe Bar[ruel]' | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Aug-- 25th. Get up late [...] Go to the large & only boutique in Brunnen with [P. B.]
Shelley -- Remove [t... | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday August 26th. Boring Morning [...] Read Abbe Bar[ruel]'. | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve [p.m.] -- Go to the Cheval. Read
King Richard III. & K... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 27th. Reach Lucerne about half after twelve -- Go to the Cheval. Read
King Richard III. & King Lea... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley
and Mary Wollstonecraf... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 14th. Get up late -- Write my journal [...] Read the Papers.' | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us
the Ancient Mariner [...... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes'. | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes'. | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les hommes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite
[d]es Hommes' [...]... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Notes to Queen Mab | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.
They [i.e. P. B. Shel... | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.' | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Veit Weber | The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Veit Weber | The Sorcerer: A Tale from the German | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer &
Political Justice. ... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 17th. [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | The Curse of Kehama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba till Bed time.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba till Bed time.' | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one
reading the Monk.'
| Claire Clairmont | | (classical) Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one
reading the Monk.'
| Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Claire Clairmont | | (classical) Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley
reads Thalaba aloud in... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Tales of Wonder | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...]
In the Evening re... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tuesday Oct. 4th. [...] Read Alexy [...] Haimatoff twice through -- more delighted with it [...]
In the Evening re... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. &
Mad [...] Mother.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. &
Mad [...] Mother.'
... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. &
Mad [...] Mother.'
... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | 'The Mad Mother' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads p... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads p... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner
[Shelley] reads p... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward du Bois | St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct. 6th. [...] Read Political Justice.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct-- 9th [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel
about the Illuminati'. | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel
about the Illuminati'.... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi --
by Shelley.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 10th. Read Political Justice [...] sit up till twelve [...] Read through Zastrozzi --
by Shelley.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political
Justice & talk w... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political
Justice & talk w... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct. 12 -- [...] Return [from Newgate Street] to dinner at six. Read Abbe Barruel.
To bed at ten.'
... | Claire Clairmont | L'Abbe Augustin Barruel | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed kn... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday -- 13th [October]. Read Political Justice.' | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from schoolmaster's journal:
G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he t... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct.14 [...] Read St Leon -- go to bed at [...] nine'. | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from the Governor's [Edward Hackett] Journal, 16 March 1845:
'I went through the male prison at 7:30pm, and l... | prisoners | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct -- 17 [...] Read Memoires de Voltaire by Himself'. | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 18 Jul 1844:
'Found that a prisoner committed yesterday was an avowed i... | H.C. | Tom Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct 19th [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff again -- read also Political Justice [...] In
the Evening read... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 23 Feb 1845:
'The prisoner (H.C.) who avowed his infidelity when first ... | H.C. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alf... | Claire Clairmont | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri: Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'I.N., 21, Reg. no. 491. - Convicted of a felony. - I found this criminal entirely ignorant ... | I.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'. | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'W.H., 35, Reg. no. 637 - Convicted of a felony about five months since, and had been three ... | W.H. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'G.B., 30, Reg. no 388. - A convicted felon, who had been in another prison for a similar of... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, an... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
H.W., 26, Reg. no. 530. - Committed six months since for obtaining money under false pretenc... | H.W. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's
Memoirs. I am much interes... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exerc... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.'
| Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. 2nd. [...] Read Political Justice. Chapter on Necessity.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
W.W., Reg no. 279: 'This criminal has been nearly twelve months in prison. He has given much... | W.W. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice [...] Dine at four -- Read after dinner
some Plays.'
... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
T.N., Reg no. 311. 'A boy 17 years of age, whose father had been several times in prison ...... | T.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
T.S., aged 17, Reg no. 312. 'conduct most satisfactory. Committed to memory several chapters... | T.S. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by
Mrs. Radcliffe.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Mary-Anne Radcliffe | Manfrone; or, the One-handed Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
J.A., aged 31, Reg. no. 325. 'This criminal when committed could not repeat the Lord's Praye... | J.A. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at
four.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 6th. Rise at nine [...] Read Prince Alexy Haimatoff & King Richard III [...] Dine at
four.'
... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
J.A., aged 21, Reg. no. 132. 'This prisoner was confined five months before his trial and on... | J.A. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft
Godwin] dines at one & goes... | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Nov. 7th. Rise at nine -- Work. Read Political Justice -- Mary [Wollstonecraft
Godwin] dines at one & goes... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonmen... | G.B. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
R.W., 31, Reg. no. 404. 'Charged with a felony - An habitual drunkard, and most vicious char... | R.W. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
F.W., 20, Reg. no. 461: 'This prisoner could read and write when committed, and was generall... | F.W. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited
Fanny [Godwin] for a h... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited
Fanny [Godwin] for a h... | Claire Clairmont | Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Paul and Virginia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one
of these he men... | Claire Clairmont | | Italian dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one
of these he men... | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | Cobbett's Weekly Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a
poissade in the time of... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a
poissade in the time of... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Latin text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a
poissade in the time of... | Claire Clairmont | | 'Anarcharsis' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | | 'Anarcharsis' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Moore | Odes of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany. 28. [...] Read Anarcharsis.' | Claire Clairmont | | 'Anarcharsis' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 8. [...] Read Helen Monteagle by A. Lefanu Stupid foolish Book.' | Claire Clairmont | Alicia Lefanu | Helen Monteagle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.' | Claire Clairmont | Rev. Joseph Berrington | A Literary History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.' | Claire Clairmont | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'. | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Tartuffe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Mariage force | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Festin de Pierre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Amour Medecin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Les Fourberies de Scapin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Malade imaginaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Medecin malgre lui | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | La Comtesse D'Escarbagnas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Etourdi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Etourdi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot
and intrigue of this ... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot
and intrigue of this ... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Depit Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Depit Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Les precieuses ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Amphitryon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 22. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 Remove from La Villa di Parigi to Palazzo Verospi upon the Corso -- Read the Edinburgh & Quart... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Voyage de Constantinople' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 7 -- 1819 [...] Read the Edinburgh & Quaterly [sic] Reviews.' | Claire Clairmont | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.' | Claire Clairmont | Mademoiselle de Montpensier | Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de M. Gaston d'Orleans, frere de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 13. Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.' | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | [?] Rural Rides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 14th. Read Cobbett'. | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | [?] Rural Rides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 16th. Go in the Morning to the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- sit on the steps of the temple of Escul... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 19th. [...] Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- Read the second Volume of [...] Schlegel's [Cri... | Claire Clairmont | Schlegel | Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday March -- 22nd [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 23rd. '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 26th. Read Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'. [scored out in source] | Claire Clairmont | | 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 27th [...] Read Schlegel Criticism'. | Claire Clairmont | Schlegel | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 30th. [...] Finish Schlegel's Critiscism [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Schlegel | Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 4th. [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 10th [...] Read Tour by Forsyth'. | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'. | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'La Fleur des Batailles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Huon de Bordeaux' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Huon de Bordeaux' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 21st. Read 1 Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Guerin de Montglave | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 24th. [...] Read 3rd. & 4th. Canto of Ricciardetto.' | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 3 and 4) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 25th. Read 5th. & 6th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 5 and 6) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 26th. Read 7th Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 7) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 27th. Read 8th. & 9th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Cantos 8 and 9) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 28th. [...] Read the tenth Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 10) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 29th. Read 11th. Canto of Ricciardetto'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 11) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 30th. Read the 12th. Canto of Ricciardetto and read no further. I find it so stupid'. | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Forteguerri | Il Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco (Canto 12) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso (Canto 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Flores et Blanche-fleur' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Cleomades et Claremonde' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | anon | 'Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelone, Fille du Roi de Naples' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Histoire de l'art chez les anciens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insa... | anon [87] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic.... | anon [240] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged... | anon [264] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264... | anon [26] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. C... | anon [505] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been i... | anon [353] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lun... | anon [670] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic.... | anon [734] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died late... | anon [792] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. ... | anon [839] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in ... | anon [814] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number o... | Arnold Bennett | | Figaro | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Andr Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Eugene Fromentin | Dominique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for mi... | Arnold Bennett | Alexis Saint-L?ger L?ger | Eloges | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday.... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton | Fables in Song | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | "Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']
| Arnold Bennett | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | W.D. Howells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | Russell Lowell | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read t... | Arnold Bennett | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 16th. Read 4 Canto's [sic] of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 17th. [...] Read 5th. 6th. 7th. & 8 Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 5, 6, 7, 8) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 9 and 10) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 18th. [...] Read Alfieri's Tragedy of Mirra [...] Read 9 & 10th Canto of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Alfieri | Mirra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday May 20th. Read 13th. 14th. 15th. & 16th Cantos of Dante's Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 13, 14, 15, 16) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May 21st. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 22nd. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 23rd. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 25th. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 26th. .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 30th. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 31st. [...] .' | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday June 1st. [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 24th. [...] Read the Infernal Quixote.' | Claire Clairmont | Charles Lucas | The Infernal Quixote: A Tale of the Day | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 29th. [...] Read Tableau de Societe de P-- [...] Le Baune [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Charles Antoine Guillaume Pigault-Lebrun | 'Tableaux de Societe' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read .' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Le petit Charles ou Neveu de mon oncle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | William Cobbett | A Year's Residence in the United States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Morris Birbeck | Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday July 1st. [...] Read the Spectator.' | Claire Clairmont | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los Cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan [Cantos I and II] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'life of Plutarch' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los Cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Theseus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Vida es Sueno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Theseus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while S... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | St Matthew | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Even... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Vida es Sueno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Even... | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Romulus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Lives of Romulus and Lycurgus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Jany. 11th. Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Lives of Lycurgus and Numa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Lives of Numa and Solon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 13th. Finish the Life of Solon'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Solon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 14th. Read the Life of Poplicola --
'Saturday Jany. 15th. Finish the Life of Poplicola'. | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Poplicola | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jany. 16th. [...] Read the Life of Themistocles which a beautiful monument to the glory & virtue of the Atheni... | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Themistocles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 17th. Read the Life of Camillus --
'Tuesday Jany. 18th. [...] Finish the Life of Camillus.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Camillus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany. 21st. Begin Life of Pericles.' | Claire Clairmont | Plutarch | Life of Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Irish pamphlet' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Irish pamphlet' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Travels Before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramact... | Claire Clairmont | [probably] August Wilhelm von Schlegel | [probably] A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'. | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'another Irish Pamphlet' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'. | Claire Clairmont | Francois Rene de Chateaubriand | De Buonaparte, des Bourbons, et de la necessite de se rallier a nos princes legitimes | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Dijon, en l'annee 1750: ... si le retablissement des sciences et des arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during t... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during t... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 2nd. [...] Read Paine's Works.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, ba... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The American Crisis | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [ma... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Letter to the Abbe Raynal | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 5th. [...] Read Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal. Read Travels before the Flood which I like much [ma... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedin... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Travels before the Flood. An Interesting Oriental Record of Men and Manners in the Antidiluvian [sic] World; Interpreted in Fourteen Evening Conversations between the Caliph of Baghdad and His Court | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 7th. [...] Read and finish Paine's Letter to the Abbe Raynal the feeling of this letter I admire exceedi... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Letter to the Abbe Raynal | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Feb. 8th. Read Paine's Rights of Man.
'Wednesday Feb 9th. [...] Read Rights of Man first part --
'Thur... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man (Part 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the sec... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man (Part 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the sec... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rig... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rig... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.
... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.' | Claire Clairmont | | The Trial of Thomas Paine,for Certain False, Wicked, Scandalous and Seditious Libels Inserted in the Second Part of the Rights of Man | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davanzati's Tacitus' [entered in Claire Clairmont's 1820 Journal on 22, 24, 27 Feb and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 15... | Claire Clairmont | Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi | Tacito volgarizzato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells
Henry that [...] Jane... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Cisma de Ingalaterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.' | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 1st. [...] Begin translating De la Servitude Volontaire d'Etienne de la Boetie'.
['Translate Etien... | Claire Clairmont | Etienne de La Boetie | Discours de la servitude volontaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in
this]'. | Claire Clairmont | David Erskine Baker | Biographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'. | Claire Clairmont | David Erskine Baker | Biographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Dugald Stewart | Life of Adam Smith | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Adam Smith | Treatise on the Imitative Arts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.' | Claire Clairmont | Fletcher (?and Massinger) | The Beggar's Bush | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy
scene
which would apply to... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman Hater | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'. | Claire Clairmont | Condorcet | Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire.
[...]
'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Lif... | Claire Clairmont | Condorcet | Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April ... | Claire Clairmont | Gabriel Brotier | Chronological Supplement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 5th. [...] Read Memoires of Voltaire written by himself [notes anecdote from this]'. | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Tacitus | Germania | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Tacitus | Life of Agricola | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Tacitus | De Oratoribus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes
by Baron Bock [notes an... | Claire Clairmont | Baron Felix de Bock | Les Chevaliers des sept montagnes, ou aventures arrivees dans le XIIIe siecle, du temps ou le tribunal secret avait sa plus grande influence, avec une notice sur l'etat ancien et actuel de ce tribunal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 13th. [...] Read Farquhar's Love & a Bottle.'
| Claire Clairmont | George Farquhar | Love and a Bottle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.'
['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus --
[...]
'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Seja... | Claire Clairmont | Ben Jonson | Sejanus His Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's
prize or the Tamer tam'd... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | Wit at Several Weapons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | Wit Without Money | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 23rd. [...] Read Brydone's Letters [...] from Sicily.
[...]
'Monday April 24 [...] Read Brydone's ... | Claire Clairmont | Patrick Brydone | A Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
| Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Noble Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 28th. [...] Read the Encyclopedia'.
| Claire Clairmont | | Encyclopedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher and Philip Massinger | The Elder Brother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 3rd. [...] Read Agnes de Lilien by the sister in law of Schiller which seems to
me to be a stupid Boo... | Claire Clairmont | Caroline Wohlzogen | Agnes de Lilien | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la
Barca [quotes three ... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la
Barca [quotes three ... | Claire Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La Virgen del Sagrario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.' | Claire Clairmont | John Beaumont | Woman Pleased | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.'
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher | The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May 12th. Read Proces Fualdes.
[...]
'Saturday May 13th. Read Proces Fualdes.' | Claire Clairmont | | Cause celebre: Proces des prevenus de lassassinat de M. [Antoine Bernardin] Fualdes ... accompagne d'une notice historique sur les principaux personnages [...] qui figurent dans cette affaire | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.' | Claire Clairmont | George Farquhar | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.' | Claire Clairmont | John Vanburgh | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.' | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.'
[records of reading this text also appear in entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May 29th. [...] Read Rights of Woman.'
[records of readings from this text also appear in entries for 31 Ma... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway.
[...]
'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & ... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.'
[records of reading this text also appea... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 8th. [...] Read 1st Vol of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.
[...]
'Friday June 9th. [...] Read Ivanhoe
... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.'
... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 11th. Read Edinburgh Reviews & Quarterly.' | Claire Clairmont | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] June 11th. [...] Read Quarterly Review.'
... | Claire Clairmont | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday June 17th. [...] Read A Legend of Montrose.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | A Legend of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in
french [sic] by a Jew aft... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in
french [sic] by a Jew aft... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'History of England' (French-language text) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 26th. [...] Read Newspapers' [makes notes on military recruitment and funding
issues reported].
... | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] June 27th. [...] Read Edinburg [sic] Review.'
... | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della
rivoluzione di Napoli... | Claire Clairmont | William Nicholson | An Introduction to Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della
rivoluzione di Napoli... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. | Claire Clairmont | Diogenes Laertius | Life of Xenophon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 30th. Read the Life of Xenophon by Diogenes Laertius -- I am ill all day. | Claire Clairmont | Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I
line 33].'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.
[...]
'Wednesday July 5th. [...] ... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland.'
[subsequent readings from Aristippe... | Claire Clairmont | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
... | Claire Clairmont | (probably) Beaumarchais | (probably) Le Barbier de Seville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Alexandre L. B. Robineau | Jerome Pointu: Comedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Lady Mount Cashell | Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tales of Wonder and Delight. Containing Narratives of Foreign Countries and Manners, and Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Voyages, Travels, and History in General | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | Comic Dramas, in Three Acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.
[...]
'Friday... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth and R.L. Edgeworth | Essay on Irish Bulls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore.
[...]
'Saturday July 22nd. Finish... | Claire Clairmont | John Moore | Edward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Chiefly in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 23rd. Read Florence Macarthy all day by Lady Morgan which I finish.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Latin text | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'
[readings from latter text also ... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 26th. [...] Read 1 Book of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 28th. [...] Read 2 Books of Pope's Homer's Iliad. Translate Latin Speeches of
Demosthenes.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Demosthenes | speeches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday July 29th. [...] Read Book IV of Iliad.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad (Book IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 30th. [...] read [...] half the V Book of the Iliad.
[...]
'Monday [...] July 31st. [...] Finish th... | Claire Clairmont | Homer | Iliad (Book V) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Case is Altered, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Revolt of Islam - 1st Canto of Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | Persae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Richard III in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Theocritus | Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Theocritus | Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucan | Bellum Civile / Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 12 Canto of Tasso & two acts of Troilus and Cressida' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Troilus and Cressida - read 3 books of Pope's Homer' | Mary Shelley | Alexander Pope | Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie' | Mary Shelley | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie' | Mary Shelley | Alexander Pope | Iliad of Homer / Odyssey of Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Prisoner of Chillon, The, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G' | Mary Shelley | Plato | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G' | [Mr] Gisborne | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Fowre Hymnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hymns - Epithalamion &c of Spencer' | Mary Shelley | Edmund Spenser | Epithalamion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Myrrha | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Cajo Graccho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above
line]. Bathe. Read C... | Claire Clairmont | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above
line]. Bathe. Read C... | Claire Clairmont | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday August 7th. [...] Read old English Baron.'
| Claire Clairmont | Clara Reeve | The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Symposium | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate
Demosthenes. Read Saggio Isto... | Claire Clairmont | Demosthenes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 13th. Read the Life of Castruccio by Nicalao Tegrimi [sic].'
| Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita di Castruccio Castracani de gl'Antelmi nelli principe di Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
| Claire Clairmont | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 16th. [...] Read Christabel & the Saggio Storico.'
| Claire Clairmont | Vincenzo Cuoco | Saggio storico sulla rivoluzione di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.'
| Claire Clairmont | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday August 19th. [...] Read Parents Offering. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the
Odyssey.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Caroline Barnard | The Parent's Offering; or Tales for Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'
| Claire Clairmont | Johann David Wyss | The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.'
| Claire Clairmont | Charles Brockden Brown | Ormond; or, the Secret Witness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 3rd. [...] Read Clarissa Harlowe.'
[further readings of this text recorded in journal entries for 4, ... | Claire Clairmont | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by
one Campbell.
'S... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Campbell | A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Friday Sept. 15th. [...] Read Irish Poetry translated by Miss Brooke'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Charlotte Brooke | Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.'
| Claire Clairmont | James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of Castlehaven | The Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, His Engagements and Carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the Year 1642 to the Year 1651 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 20th. [...] Read Miss Brooke's Irish poetry.
[...]
'[...] finish Miss Brooke's Irish poetry'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Charlotte Brooke | Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies and Songs, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion.
[...]
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...]... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'.
| Claire Clairmont | Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevin | Memoir on the Objects of the Societies of United Irishmen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from
stanza 10].'
... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Isabella, or the Pot of Basil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus.
[...]
'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fabl... | Claire Clairmont | Phaedrus | fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | 'Political Works' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October 27th. [...] Begin Istoria Civile di Napoli da Ginannone.'
[records of reading this text also appear... | Claire Clairmont | Pietro Giannone | Dell'Istoria civile del regno di Napoli | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 10th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Nov. 11th. [...] Read the 1st. Act of Prometheus unbound.' | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. 19th. [...] read Conversazione da Bondi.' | Claire Clairmont | Clemente Bondi | 'Le Conversazioni: Poemetto' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Nov. 24th. Read Newspapers.' | Claire Clairmont | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.' | Claire Clairmont | Belfegor da Machiavelli | Novella piacevolissima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 2nd. [...] Read 1 Canto of Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. 6th. [...] Read a Canto of Purgatorio.' | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.' | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'. | Claire Clairmont | Leigh Hunt | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'. | Claire Clairmont | Leigh Hunt | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least
attention was pa... | Claire Clairmont | Petrarch | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto
of Tasso'. | Claire Clairmont | Henry Coxe | Picture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities and Curiosities of That Classical and Interesting Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto of Tasso'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Torquato Tasso | La Gerusalemme liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Dec. 26th. [...] Read Allemagne by Madame de Stael.'
[readings from this text also recorded in journal e... | Claire Clairmont | Germaine de Stael | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-Fouque | Sintram and his Companions: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in
Prose and Verse no.1.... | Claire Clairmont | | Olliers Literary Miscellany in Prose and Verse no.1 | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Jany 26th. [...] Read newspapers and Reviews [including Olliers Literary Miscellany in
Prose and Verse no.1.... | Claire Clairmont | | Retrospective Review vol. II | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 9th. [...] Read Das Geheimniss one of Schiller's minor Poems.' | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | 'Das Geheimniss' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Feb. 10th. [...] Read Das Gluck a poem by Schiller.' | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | 'Das Gluck' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Feb. 11th. [...] Read Das Lied von der Glocke by Schiller.'
[further/other readings of this text (or sessio... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Das Lied von der Glocke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read a Magazine called Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve'. | Claire Clairmont | | Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.'
[reading from this text also recorded in journal entr... | Claire Clairmont | Ippolito Pindemonte | Le Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito Pindemonte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Feb. 27th. [...] Read Hyperion of Keats.' | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the
History of the Cru... | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Francois Michaud | Histoire des croisades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March. 15th. [...] Begin the Hero & Leander of Schiller.'
[reading from this text also recorded in journa... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Hero und Leander | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 23rd. [...] Read Der Gang nach dem [...] Eisenhammer -- von Schiller.'
[further readings from this te... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 29th. [...] Read L'Avaro Fastoso di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | L'Avaro Fastoso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 2nd. [...] Read Der Ring des Polycrates.' | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Der Ring des Polycrates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 5th. Begin Der Kampf mit dem Drachen von Schiller.'
[readings from this text also recorded on 7 an... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Der Kampf mit dem Drachen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 11th. [...] Begin Avventure ed Osservazione di Filippo Pananti sopra le coste
di Barberia.'
[Re... | Claire Clairmont | Filippo Pananti | Avventure ed osservazione sopra le coste di Barberia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] April 14th. [[...] Read Die Zerstorung von Troia, freie [...] Ubersetzung der
zweiten Buchs der Aene... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Zerstorung von Troja | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day
should appear to... | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Vedova Scaltra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day
should appear to... | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Famiglia dell'antiquario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 29th. [...] Read La [...] Cameriera Brillante by Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Cameriera Brillante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria da Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Moglie saggia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 30th. [...] Read La Moglie Saggia ed Il Feudataria [sic] da Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Feudatario | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 2nd. [...] Read La Buona Moglie di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Buona moglie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday May 5th. [...] Begin Reise durch Italien von J. J. Garning [sic].'
[further readings in this text recorde... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Isaac von Gerning | Reise durch Oesterreich und Italien | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 16th. [...] Read I Piffari di Montagna a pamphlet upon the Carbonari.' | Claire Clairmont | anon | I Piffari di montagna, ossia cenno estemporaneo sulla congiura del principe di Canosa, e sopra i carbonari | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 16th. [...] Begin Seitenstuck zum Flussgitt Niemen von Kotzebue.
[...]
'Sunday May 20th. [...] Fi... | Claire Clairmont | August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Possen, die Zeit beachtend, bey Gelegenheit des Ruckzungs der Franzosen. Seitenstuck zum Flussgott Nieman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May 18th. [...] Read the Donna Volubile by Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | La Donna volubile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 20th. Read L'Adulatore, di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | L'Adulatore | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Pape... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Chase called and read prayers to the prisoners.' | Mr Chase | | prayers | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we... | John Buckley Castieau | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mr... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [playbill] | Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very li... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi, principe di Faenza | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.' | anon | | prayers and exhortation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Filippo of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Filippo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Polinice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rosmunda - Polinice & Antigone of Alfieri' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Rosmunda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Virginia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedi... | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 4th Canto' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribe Mazeppa' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Ode on Venice' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Agide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story tha... | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrive... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic sh... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest s... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the d... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Attended the reading of The Poor Gentleman & was very pleased with the gentlemanly manners of most of the Amateurs. ... | men | Hendrik Conscience | The Poor Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Attended a meeting of the Amateur Society in the evening when the Play to be performed was read throughout.' | men | Hendrik Conscience | The Poor Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Attended rehearsal a little business done amidst a great deal of noise, my companions in the performance are in gener... | men | Hendrik Conscience | The Poor Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institut... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the Protestant prisoners' | Mr Stoddart | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the papers at the Mechanics.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent a good deal of to day in reading "The Heir at Law" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have e... | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day &... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Corrie the Presbyterian minister read prayers to & addressed the prisoners.' | Mr Corrie | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quar... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Stoddart read prayers & preached to the prisoners.' | Mr Stoddart | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the prisoners, in my estimation I would be better to have no cle... | Mr Stoddart | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went home with Messrs Reed & then got back to my quarters. Studied a little of my part in the Heir at Law, saw all wa... | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.' | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.' | Mr Neild | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a l... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.' | Mr Neild | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short t... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purc... | John Buckley Castieau | John Wilson | Noctes Ambrosianae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Joe & chatted for some time with him, read a letter which Harriette had sent.' | John Buckley Castieau | Harriette | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.' | Mr Corrie | [unknown] | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed ver... | John Buckley Castieau | Edgar Allan Poe | [Allan Poe] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not he... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one o... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspaper cutting] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garric... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ g... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens & Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens & Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being f... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Constitution | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Published in The Woman Worker, newspaper:
'As I sat engaged with the very charming adventures of Zobeide, in the "A... | Ethel Carnie | N A | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf:
... | Ethel Carnie | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | Vita di Alfieri | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'. | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Timon of Athens' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Venise at 2 o'clock - Read alls well that ends well' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | All's Well That Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | Charles Maturin | Women, ou Pour et Contre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Fudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown the Younger | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Beppo: a Venetian story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Quarterly' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the life of Virgil' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | Life of Virgil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Black dwarf' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Hecyra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche' | Mary Shelley | Apuleius | Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Terence' | Mary Shelley | Terence | Hecyra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland' | Mary Shelley | Hans Egede Saabye | Greenland : being Extracts from a Journal kept in that Country in the years 1770 to 1778. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Henry Fielding | History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Livy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Gil Blas' | Mary Shelley | Alain-Rene Lesage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Sophie Ristaud Cottin | Claire d'Albe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Adele de Senange - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Souza | Adele de Senage, ou lettres de Lord Sydenham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy' | Mary Shelley | Alain-Rene Lesage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Corinne and Livy - S reads Livy' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - write out Shelley's poem' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Lines written among the Eugenean Hills' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Georgics' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterhums | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 Canto's of Dante with Shelley - he reads Livy and Winkhelmann aloud' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Livy | Ab urbe condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S read Plutarch's lives.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Madame Fauques de Vaucluse | The Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An oriental tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - & Faublas' | Mary Shelley | Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - & the Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little dra... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May 27th. [...] Read Congres de Vienne de M. Pradt.'
[also records 'Read Congres de Vienne' on 28 May 1821... | Claire Clairmont | Dominque Dufour de Pradt | Du Congres de Vienne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] May 29th. [...] Read the 1st Letter in Leiden von Werther.'
[Also records reading this text on 31 May 18... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Die Leiden des jungen Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday June [...] 5th. [...] Read Werther and begin Emile de Rousseau.'
[also records reading latter text on 7, ... | Claire Clairmont | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Emile: Ou de l'education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Lucretius' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Monday June 18th. Pack up [for departure to Pisa next day] [...] Read the Cavaliere del buon
Gusto da Goldoni [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Cavaliere di buon gusto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Plutarchs life of Marius' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | 'Life of Marius' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'. | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamlet' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday June 25th. [...] Read Melincourt'. | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Peacock | Melincourt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several
anecdotes given in t... | Claire Clairmont | anon | review of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | Hippolitus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King Lear' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Othello' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julius Caesar' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs.
[...]
'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I th... | Claire Clairmont | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun by Himself and Concluded by His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read King John - & Livy' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] July 24th. Shelley comes to breakfast. Read Adonais.' | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday July 25th. [...] Read Sandford and Merton.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Love Day | The History of Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Moore | Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Forsyth's tour' | Mary Shelley | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Forsyth's tour' | Mary Shelley | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an excursio in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des Dames | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 5th. [...] Begin Cabale und Liebe [sic] of Schiller.'
[also records reading this text on 6, 10, 11, ... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Kabale und Liebe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which
ignorant people bear to... | Claire Clairmont | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | [History Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'. | Claire Clairmont | Lucy Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Written by his Widow Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] August 28th. Read Kenilworth --
[...]
'Wednesday August 29th. Read Kenilworth.
[...]
'Thursda... | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bib. de Chevalerie' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & Chrysostome' | Mary Shelley | Chrysostomus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the vision of Quivedo' | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y Villegas | Suenos y discursos de verdades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius.
[...]
'Friday August 31st. Read Anastasius.
[.... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Hope | Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Bocaccio' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [possibly] Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Decameroni' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Decamerone' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy.
[...]
'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...]... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy (Volume I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Los rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.' | Claire Clairmont | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Oct 6th. [...] Begin Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] von Schiller.'
[also records reading t... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Jungfrau von Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Oct. 11th. Read Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] with S--
[...]
'Saturday Oct. 13th. [..... | Claire Clairmont and Percy Bysshe Shelley | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Jungfrau von Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entrie... | Mary Shelley | Clarke | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Oct [...] 17th. [...] Begin Faust by Goethe [goes on to quote part i lines 590-593 and
lines 602-605 from... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Apology of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entrie... | Mary Shelley | Vittorio Alfieri | Vita di Vittorio Alfieri ... scritta da esso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal... | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence
'A few hours hence and I shall be no m... | Claire Clairmont | anon | The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson and Others, for High Treason ... with the Antecedent Proceedings. Taken in short-hand by William Brodie Gurney (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's list of Percy Shelley's reading in 1819 - database entries are based on references in the journal].
s
Eu... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Nov. 3rd. [...] After dinner [...] begin Wieland's novel of Menander & Glycera.'
[reading/translation of ... | Claire Clairmont | Christoph Martin Wieland | Menander und Glycerion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from
'Tam O'Shanter,' and "... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Burns | 'Tam O' Shanter' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from
'Tam O'Shanter,' and "... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Burns | 'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec 2nd. [...] Read Julius Caesar of Shakespeare.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 10th. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy'.
[further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.'
[further readings in this text recorded in journal ... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False
Delicacy an English Comedy t... | Claire Clairmont | Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Gabrielle de Vergy, tragedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False
Delicacy an English Comedy t... | Claire Clairmont | Hugh Kelly | False Delicacy, ou La Fausse Delicatesse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et
Zenobie by I. Crebillon.' | Claire Clairmont | Antoine Marin Lemierre | Hypermnestre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et
Zenobie by I. Crebillon [si... | Claire Clairmont | Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon | Rhadamisthe et Zenobie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. 30th. [...] Read Cymbeline Titus Andronicus and 1st. and 2nd. part of Henry IV.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Henry IV part II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.'
[readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entri... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Ditmar von Aarenstein' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 17th. [...] Read King Lear.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Feb. [...] 7th. [...] Read Southey's and Lord B's squabble in Galignani'. | Claire Clairmont | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 3rd. [...] Read Hamlet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.'
[readings/translation/copying of transl... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.' | Claire Clairmont | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di
Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | I Due Pantaloni o i mercantanti | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 26th. [...] Read in the Evening I Mercanti [sic] and Le Donne Curiose di
Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Le Donne Curiose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 28th. [...] Read Il Poeta Fanatico di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Poeta Fanatico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday March 31st. Read Il Matrimonio per Concorso di Goldoni.' | Claire Clairmont | Carlo Goldoni | Il Matrimonio per concorso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] May 12-24th [...] Early in the morning I read Madame Roland
[...]
'Wednesday May 13th.-25th [...] Fin... | Claire Clairmont | Saint Albin Berville and Jean Francois Barriere | Memoires de Madame Roland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Wednesday 25 May, Claire Clairmont transcribes stanzas 28 and 29 from
Canto II of The King's Q... | Claire Clairmont | King James I of Scotland | The King's Quair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May [...] 27th. [...] After dinner read Die Cypressenkranze de la Baronne la Motte
Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque | Die Cypressenkranze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May [...] 30th. [...] After dinner Mr. Gambs reads aloud his tale of Skold. It pleases me
very much -- Its ... | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Skold | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country
property and read ... | Claire Clairmont | Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of
Moses [goes on to ... | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Moses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] June 4th. [...] After dinner [...] M.G. [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] reads to me
Schiller's Wallens... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 8th. [...] I read Wallenstein and give my lessons.'
[readings in this text also recorded in ... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday June [...] 24th. Early in the morning receive a letter from Mr. Baxter with a number of
Blackwood's Magazine... | Claire Clairmont | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday June [...] 19th. [...] Read the Revolt of Islam with M.G. [i.e. friend Chretien-Hermann
Gambs]'.
[reading... | Claire Clairmont | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and
Memoirs of Marmontel.' | Claire Clairmont | Plato | Phaedon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and
Memoirs of Marmontel.... | Claire Clairmont | Marmontel | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] July 11th. [...] Read Der ewige Jude by Schubart, the translation of which is in the
Notes of Queen Mab.' | Claire Clairmont | C. F. D. Schubart | 'Die ewige Jude: Ein lyrische Rhapsodie' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'Travels in Germany' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'
[records finishin... | Claire Clairmont | unknown | Life of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Lecture on Modern History | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday August [...] 19th. [...] Read Le Distrait by Regnier [sic].' | Claire Clairmont | Jean Francois Regnard | Le Distrait | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday August [...] 25th. [...] After dinner I take up the Newspaper by accident and read
there an account of a d... | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea
[...] read Catholi... | Claire Clairmont | Charles Rollin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea
[...] read Catholi... | Claire Clairmont | | review of Shute, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Sarum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday September 25th. [...] After breakfast [...] the newspapers were put by Catherine
Ivanovna into my hand -- I ... | Claire Clairmont | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'story of the Basket Woman' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr.
G[ambs]. It is a charming... | Claire Clairmont | Ernst Christoph von Houwald | Das Bild: Trauerspiel in funf Akten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.
[... | Claire Clairmont | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suede | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] [...] Octbr. 4th. [...] Begin reading the History of Charles the XII by Becker in
German.' | Claire Clairmont | Carl Friedrich Becker | life of Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] October 5th. [...] Read the Edinburgh Review.' | Claire Clairmont | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] Oct. 8th. [...] Read in the afternoon [following funeral of one of her pupils].
Histoire de la Revo... | Claire Clairmont | Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des Odoards | Histoire philosophique de la revolution de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death
of a child] & rea... | Claire Clairmont | Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan | Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, reine de France ... suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les regnes de Louis XIV, de Louis XV et de Louis XVI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.' | Claire Clairmont | unknown | 'lives of the saints' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Tarlton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'. | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Barring Out' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.'
[also records reading this text on 28 October 1825] | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | The Ghost-Seer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read a little of Werner's Templers with M. G[ambs].
but not much for ... | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner | Die Templer auf Cypern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.' | Claire Clairmont | Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday October [...] 31st. [...] A note from Mr. Baxter with Lingard's [...] Reply to the attacks
of Shute, Bishop ... | Claire Clairmont | John Lingard | Tracts Occasioned by the Publication of a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham by Shute, Bishop of Durham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] November 2nd. [...] A packet of Newspapers from Mr. Baxter. I sit in my room
& read them all the e... | Claire Clairmont | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.'
[also records reading thi... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Simple Susan' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet &
read Madlle. Pan... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'Mademoiselle Panache' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Novbr. [...] 14th. [...] dress and read Martin Luther with M. G[ambs]. His prayer just
before presenting hi... | Claire Clairmont | Werner | Martin Luther, oder die Weihe der Kraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.' | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Nine Days' Wonder' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.'
[also records re... | Claire Clairmont | Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur | Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann
Gambs] a little of 1st C... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read
a little of the Bl... | Claire Clairmont | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Black Lane' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Nov. [...] 27th. [...] Mr. Armfeld & the little Bielfeld spent the Evening -- we read
Wordsworth's Ballad of... | Claire Clairmont | William Wordsworth | 'Simon Lee' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Novbr. [...] 28th. [...] After dinner read Ibycus & Die Kraniche with Midge [i.e.
Chretien-Hermann Gambs] ['... | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Kraniche des Ibykus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We
are interrupted by M. ... | Claire Clairmont | Amand Gottfried Adolph Mullner | Die Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier Acten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came
in in [...] his usual ... | Claire Clairmont | William Robertson | The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Decbr. 5th. [...] read Evenings at Home with John.'
[also records reading this text on 6 December 1825]. | Claire Clairmont | John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld | Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday [...] Dec. 12th. [...] read some of Schiller's riddles'. | Claire Clairmont | J. C. F. von Schiller | riddles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Dec. [...] 20th. [...] Letter from Mr. Baxter and Forsyth's Travels in Italy. After
dinner
I read it.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Forsyth | Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's
Memoirs.'
[records an... | Claire Clairmont | Benvenuto Cellini | Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.' | Claire Clairmont | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 'Kreisleriana' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jan 5th ... Then we went a-shopping. I called at Lehnhold's [music publisher's where
Clairmont received a... | Claire Clairmont | Mary Shelley | Letter to Claire Clairmont | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book
contained! Poor She... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | ?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have finished "Telemaque," and have re... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon | Les Aventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have finished "Telemaque," and have re... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Racine | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'every one here declares against [Southey... | Arabella Graham-Clarke | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Latin grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | | Latin Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'My very dear Mama / Excuse m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Manoeuvring | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Works including The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Reviews of the Corsair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frances Sitwell | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederick Sylvester North Douglas | An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Bigland | An Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819:
'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim an... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | "Simple Susan" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819:
'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim an... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | anon | Whim and Contradiction: A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822:
'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was... | Daniel McSwiney | Elizabeth Barrett | Greek epitaph | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822:
'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was... | Daniel McSwiney | Elizabeth Barrett | verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Campbell to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 August 1822, in response to her having asked his opinion of her narrative poe... | Thomas Campbell | Elizabeth Barrett | Leila | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823:
'We are now doing Cicero in... | Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at Charterhouse | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 8 March 1823:
'We are now doing Cicero in... | Thomas Moulton-Barrett and boys at Charterhouse | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 26 April 1823:
'Russel works us most properly now in Gramma... | John Russell (master), Thomas Moulton-Barrett, and other boys at Charterhouse | Ovid | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter, Elizabeth Barrett, on the publication of the latter's 'Lines on the death of Lor... | Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | Lines on the Death of Lord Byron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825:
'Have you met with Southey's new Poem... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | Review of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825) (including extracts from poem) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Roman Law | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published vo... | Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published vo... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | 'fugitive pieces' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published vo... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published vo... | Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ... | Caroline Kenyon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ... | Mr Philipps | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ... | John Kenyon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826:
'Mr Price's desire that I should have read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 November 1826, in response to her written comments on his Essay on the Modern P... | Uvedale Price | Elizabeth Barrett | comments on Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826:
'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hope... | [probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore | Uvedale Price | dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826:
'I will ask you [...] whether you have ever read the Subalter... | Uvedale Price | George Robert Gleig | The Subaltern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his MS dissertation on Charterhouse pronunciation... | Elizabeth Barrett and Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett | Uvedale Price | dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | Petronius | Satyricon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Chamberlayne | Pharonnida, an Heroic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Chatterton | An Excelente Balade of Charitie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.?
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song" | Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Remorse: a tragedy in five acts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Alchemist, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio' | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Finish the 5th book of Lucan - Read the bible & with S. two Canto's of the Purgatorio' | Percy and Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'. | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | New Inn, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the Poetaster' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Poetaster, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Wife for a Month, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Philaster, or Love Lies Bleeding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy S's Tragedy' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Cenci, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] - The Greek Tragedians & Calderon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Bocaccio [sic]' | Percy Shelley and Charles Clairmont | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sad Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sad Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco] | Il trionfo della Morte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.' | Percy Shelley, Charles Clairmont and Mrs Gisborne | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Chances' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Chances, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia' | Mary Shelley | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Herbert Spencer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of... | Mrs Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1826 and early 1827, E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] struggled with a long poem, "The Development of Genius" [...]... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | "The Development of Genius" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 October 1821:
'I read her [invalid Elizabeth Barrett's] praye... | Mary Moulton-Barrett | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 11 April 1826:
'Mrs. Campbell & her lovely children quite well. ... | Mrs Deffell | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16 May 1826:
'Emily lent the Essay on Mind to John Cumberlidge who rea... | John Cumberlidge | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Massinger' | Mary Shelley | Philip Massinger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Philip Massinger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | [probably] History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826:
'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly... | anon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Night Walker or, the Little Thief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Clarendon aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud' | Mary Shelley | Mateo Aleman | Guzman de Alfarache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Mateo Aleman | Guzman de Alfarache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At four and a half my great delight was poring over fairy phenomenons and the actions of
necromancers -- & the seve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Johnson | The Famous Historie of the Seven Champions of Christendom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st book of Horace's Odes' | Mary Shelley | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Baruch Spinoza | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Wordsworth | Peter Bell: a tale in verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato... | Mary Shelley | Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte Fouque | Undine, eine Erzahlung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | 'History of England and Rome' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it
was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | 'History of Greece' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - finish copying Peter Bell which is sent' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Peter Bell the Third | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | Paradise Lost (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of... | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Madame de Stael | Considerations sur les principaux evenemens de la Revolution francaise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace and Lettres de Sevigne' | Mary Shelley | Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 3rd book of Horace's Odes - Madme de Sevignes letters - & Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage' | Mary Shelley | John Fletcher | Love's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament' | Mary Shelley | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Gospel of St Luke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La devocion de la Cruz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | El Purgatorio de San Patricio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of
ore consequence or ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los cabellos de Absalon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | La cisma de Ingilterra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | El principe constante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Cypriano | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | El magico prodigioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of
ore consequence or ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | The Battle of Marathon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Los dos amantes del cielo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal ent... | Mary and Percy Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of her reading in 1819. All are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate en... | Mary Shelley | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A
novel at six years may appea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Amelia Opie | Temper, or Domestic Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit
& poetic excellence... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit
& poetic excellence... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hooker | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's
are more solid & mor... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upst... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Adventures of Philip | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827:
'As we were going down the ... | Lady Margaret Maria Cocks | Charlotte Anley | Miriam; Or, the Power of Truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827:
'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor ... | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'A Day of Pleasure at Malvern' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | A Malvern Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Prologue and Epilogue to poems of St Gregory | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'Elegy' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Translation from Sophocles' Electra | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827:
'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price and James Commeline | correspondence on pronunciation of classical languages | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827:
'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | Review of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language... | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, September 1827:
'I am [...] obliged to you for sending me your work on the A... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Reflections on the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, c.October 1827:
'As Lady Margaret wished to se... | Elizabeth Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | (probably) "The Development of Genius" | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 November 1827:
'You have extremely obliged me by lending me your Select Tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom, St Gregory Nazianzen, and St Basil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Commeline to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 December 1827:
'Together with Mr Price's book, allow me to return you my be... | The Rev. James Commeline Jr | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 December 1827:
'I [italics]have[end italics] read the Pharsalia; & am very... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827:
'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1828:
'I know very little Hebrew, & have indeed only read a few c... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hebrew scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 March 1828:
I have reconsidered Io [...] I quite agree with you in admirin... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschlylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Erasmus Darwin | The Botanic Garden, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828:
'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your Engl... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828:
'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your Engl... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1-3 May 1828:
'Saturday, eight o' clock. Our dinner hour was rather later t... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | 'Review' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Gospel of St Matthew | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads D.[on] Juan aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Don Juan' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]' | Mary Shelley | Baruch Spinoza | Tractatus Theologico-politicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Bible' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Proverbs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sophocles | Hercules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Ecclesiastes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Song of Solomon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al... | Mary and Percy Shelley | Baruch Spinoza | Tractatus Theologico-politicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johannes von Muller | Allgemeine Geschichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Travels before the flood' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Reisen vor der Sundfluth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Travels before the flood' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | Reisen vor der Sundfluth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pamphlets.' | Mary Shelley | various | [pamphlets on Irish politics] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Jeremiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bartolome de las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Athenaeus | Deipnosophistai | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bartolome Las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Jeremiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato' | Mary Shelley | Bartolomeo de las Casas | Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry IV aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy & F of the Bees. S. reads Solis' History of Mexico' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra | Historia de la conquista de Mejico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy. F. of the Bees - Copy S's poems. S reads the Hist. of Mexico - & Henry IV aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra | Historia de la conquista de Mejico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Catiline his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Common Sense' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Letter addressed to the Abbi Raynal on the Affairs of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letter to the Abbe Raynal &c - ride with M.M. - finish XXXIII book of Livy. Begin the age of Reason.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Age of Reason' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry V' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Henry VI aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | Henry VI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Hobbes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Ezekiel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hobbes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Hobbes | Humane Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Tobit aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Tobit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Utopia' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Age of Reason' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason, The: being an investigation of true and fabulous theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sejanus, his Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rights of Man' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Cataline, his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28-29 May 1828:
"If you have not read the Essay on the Picturesque, will you... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | Essay on the Picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads th... | 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 | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -' | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Godwin | Enquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828:
'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]writte... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Mary Shepherd | Essays on the Perception of an External Universe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828:
'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henrietta Muschett | poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828:
'It is late for me to be writing, -- but I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'elegy' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828:
'I have not gone [italics]thro'[end italics... | Elizabeth Barrett | E.H. Barker | Parriana; or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr, collected by E. H. Barker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 6 August 1828:
'I have finished the Parriana -- but not the work on Junius.'... | Elizabeth Barrett | E. H. Barker | The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K.B., to the Authorship of Junius's Letters, Disproved | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 26-27 September 1828:
'On opening your book to look for Joan of Arc, I came ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Thoughts on an Illustrious Exile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 February 1829, thanking him for forwarding parcel containing E. H. Barker's e... | Elizabeth Barrett | E.H. Barker (ed.) | Cicero's Catilinian Orations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829:
'I return Heliodorus, -- & [italics]keep[end italics] many pleas... | Elizabeth Barrett | Heliodorus | Aethiopica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829:
'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Artic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | notes to the Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829:
'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Artic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'Essay on the Greek Article' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829:
'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dugald Stewart | essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829:
'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dugald Stewart | essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829:
'I have actually & absolutely finished the seven hundred & thir... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gregory Nazianzen | In laudem virginitatis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829:
'I had a very obliging letter from Mr Barker yesterday, to tell... | John Jebb | Elizabeth Barrett | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 25 May 1829:
'I have received the Bishop of Limerick's book, & thank you for... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Jebb | Sermons on Subjects Chiefly Practical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829:
'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the le... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Jacques Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Oration on Barlaam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Oration on Gordius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Homily 'De Fide' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829:
'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'treatise on Geology' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829:
'You will think me very idle when I tell yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | 'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829:
'You will think me very idle when I tell yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Longinus | De Sublimitate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829:
'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & th... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | orations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829:
'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Phaedon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Monday 28 December 1829, thanking him for his epitaph on a cat, and following c... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Greek epitaph 'On the death of a favourite Tom Cat' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | St Chrysostom | 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Annotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus... | Elizabeth Barrett | Longinus | De Sublimitate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Rhesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Machiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Life of Voltaire - & Evenings at home' | Mary Shelley | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Evenings at Home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Book of Wisdom of Solomon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Bridones travels - read Livy' | Mary Shelley | Patrick Brydone | Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid' | Mary Shelley | Ovid | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Robinson Crusoe' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes Phaedrus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca aloud to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Phaedon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes the Trajedy to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe' | Mary Shelley | Henry Reveley | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe' | Mary Shelley | Daniel Defoe | Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sandford & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Day | History of Sandford and Merton; a work intended for the use of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Edmund Spenser | 'Virgil's Gnat' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vind. of the Right of Woman' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Day | History of Sandford and Merton: a work intended for the use of children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Boswell's life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Theocritus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson' | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Memoirs.' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Memoirs of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 38th Book of Livy. read Post. Letters.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumous Works of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Letters from Norway' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Letters from No[r]way' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary: a fiction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt (ed.) | Indicator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Bride of Lammermoor' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ivanhoe' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Ivanhoe' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vicar of Wakefield' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Caleb Williams' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Caleb Williams, or Things as they are | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Caleb Williams, or Things as they are | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Euripides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey' | Mary Shelley | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Niccolo Fortiguerra | Ricciardetto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Greek Romances' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Greek Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Greek Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the ... | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Niccolo Fortiguerra | Ricciardetto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Middletons Cicero' | Mary Shelley | Conyers Middleton | History of the Life of marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Livy' | Mary Shelley | Livy | Ab Urbe Condita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'First Oration of Cicero' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | [First Oration] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | [First Oration] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finish Greek Romances' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [n/a] | Greek Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | 'Hymn to Mercury' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | [Second Oration] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. begins Hist of Engd' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830:
'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with on... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Latin epigraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 February 1830:
'Here is a paragraph about Bells which I copy from the Tim... | Elizabeth Barrett | | report on change-ringing | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830:
'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racin... | Elizabeth Barrett and younger Moulton-Barrett brothers | Jean Jacques Racine | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830:
'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racin... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Jacques Racine | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, c.1 October 1830:
'Papa read us out of the newspaper Emily Bayford's... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | | report of marriage of Emily Bayford and Charles George Butler | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830:
'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's si... | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | unknown | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831:
'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Bentley | A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831:
'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was ob... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Moore | Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Bla... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Bla... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Hawkins | 'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 15 November 1831:
'I have been reading an article in the Quarterly Review th... | Elizabeth Barrett | | 'Letter to the Lords' (article concerning Reform Bill) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827:
'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irv... | anon | Irving | preface | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830:
'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work o... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sir Humphrey Davy | Consolation in Travail | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Erskine | The Garb of Old Gaul | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double m... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers Chapter 34 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...' | Misses Jaffray | Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner) | Queechy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832:
'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | Carmina Homerica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832:
'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832:
'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Germaine de Stael | Corinne, ou L'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hebrew lexicon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | | sequel to I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'Poor Sir Walter Scott! You have heard that he is dying [...] Th... | Edward Moulton-Barrett sr | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Kemble | Francis the First, an Historical Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life o... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the ... | younger Moulton-Barrett brothers | | Greek text/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hebrew Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832:
'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you... | Elizabeth Barrett | Synesius Bishop of Ptolemais | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I am glad you have been reading Euripedes. I have looked ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripedes | Orestes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | Pindar | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Troades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Biblia Hebraica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | novels including The Disowned | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | Domestic Manners of the Americans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dr Parr | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832:
'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the G... | Elizabeth Barrett | | The Theatre of the Greeks | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832:
'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the G... | Elizabeth Barrett | August Wilhelm von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833:
'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getti... | anon | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 September 1833:
'Dr Clarke's doctrines are not always & altogether and strictl... | Elizabeth Barrett | | An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 14 September 1834:
'Have you seen a poetical translation of Klopstock's m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gottlieb Friedrich Klopstock | The Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833:
'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Herbert | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833:
'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to fi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'I heard of poor Drounieau's case in t... | Robert Browning | Gustave Drounieau | Resignee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834:
'Madame Dudevant has accomplished some... | Robert Browning | George Sand | Lelia (chapter VIII) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Brown | Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anthony Collins | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Martin Luther | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835:
'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Brougham | A Discourse upon Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amadee de Ripert-Monclar, 30 July 1835:
'I have you to thank [...] for some very cl... | Robert Browning | Agricole Fortia d'Urban | works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bridgewater Treatises | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Prout | Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion Considered with Reference to Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Chalmers | On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him:
'Don't expect [...] to find... | Elizabeth Barrett | Collins | work 'upon necessity' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835:
'Did you ever hear of Dr Wardlaw's treatise upon infant bapt... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Wardlaw | A Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature, and Uses, of Infant Baptism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835:
'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Kirby | The Habits and Instincts of Animals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835:
'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poet... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Brown | Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835:
'Have you seen Serjeant Talfourd's new tragedy, the Ion ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Ion | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835:
'I have read lately Stilling's autobiography; & was by t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling | autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836:
'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and tha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836:
'I remember daring to say to Sir Uvedale Price that I could... | Uvedale Price | George Crabbe | The Library | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Shepherd | The Countess of Essex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | 'Jesse Cliffe' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836:
'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Mermaid' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836:
'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have... | Elizabeth Barrett | | 'Saunders & Ottley's catalogue of new publications' | Print: Advertisement, Unknown, catalogue |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, c.29 August 1836:
'Mrs Lenox Conyngham's name had come to my ears but it... | Elizabeth Barrett | H.F. Chorley | Memorials of Mrs Hemans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Walter Scott | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | | 'old English [i.e. Renaissance] drama' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836:
'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b... | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Poet's Vow' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 December 1836:
'I have been reading [...] Sheridan Knowles's play of "The Wrec... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sheridan Knowles | The Wrecker's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836:
'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | plays (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836:
'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Ford | plays (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837:
'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which... | Elizabeth Barrett | Justin Martyr | Apologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837:
'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which... | Elizabeth Barrett | Justin Martyr | Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, 70 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837:
'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions... | Robert Browning | William Charles Macready | annotations to Robert Browning, Strafford | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837:
'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever,... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Combe | Elements of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837:
'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shep... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Fletcher | The Faithful Shepherdess | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837:
'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Otto of Wittelsbach | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837:
'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Butler | The Star of Seville | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary
Russell Mitford, 2 May 183... | Mary Hunter | Mary Russell Mitford | "The Widow's Dog" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837:
'I am very much obliged by your kindness in allowing me to... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Margaret Cocks | dramatic poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837:
'I have been much pleased lately in reading Lady Dacre's t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre | Translations from the Italian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837:
'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | Pro Roscio Amerino | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | Pro Roscio Comoedo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837:
'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Butler | The Star of Seville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.' | Mary Shelley | Cicero | Actio prima in Verrem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto' | Mary Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Fortiguerra | Ricciardetto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Apollonius Rhodius | Argonautica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Apollonius Rhodius | Argonautica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837:
'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to sa... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Country Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Fletcher | Double Marriage, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius' | Mary Shelley | Lucretius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837:
'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Age of Bronze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I have seen in the papers, the death of a beloved frien... | Elizabeth Barrett | | death notice for Harriet Baker (d.17 August) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot' | Mary Shelley | [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. | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Swellfoot the Tyrant | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - greek - Irish books' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [books on Ireland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - Rebellion of Ireland' | Mary Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland' | Mary Shelley | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Horace | First Epistle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Jungfrau von Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | J. C. F. von Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen Hand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837:
'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Mary Wortley Montague | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837:
'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Letter to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837:
'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | The Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 November 1837:
'Hearing of Miss Porter is like being a child again. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Porter | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833:
'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate co... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Browning | Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Lady Dacre, 3 July 1836, on Elizabeth Barrett:
'The "Essay on Mind" which she sent me [...]... | Henry Cary | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of goo... | Charles Darwin | Thomas Henry Lister | Granby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of goo... | Charles Darwin | Humphry Davy | Researches, Chemical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to follow your advice about the Bible, what part of the Bible do you like best? I like the Gospels. Do y... | Charles Darwin | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Philip Massinger | Lovers' Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Wiliam Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani - Travels of Rolando' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin the Georgics with S.' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Antient Metaphysics' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Antient Metaphysics; or, the Science of Universals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?ge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Francesco Petrarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Gillies | History of Ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests; from the earliest accounts, till the division of the Macedonian Empire in the East, including the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Troilus & Cressid [sic] in the evening' | Mary Shelley | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Herodotus - Gillies & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Don Juan' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs Specimens' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hyperion aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems' | Mary Shelley | John Keats | Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India' | Thomas Medwin | Barry Cornwall [pseud.] | Dramatic Scenes, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I ad... | Charles Darwin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'' | Thomas Medwin | Thomas Medwin | [journal of time in India] | Manuscript: diary |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Erskine | Armata: a fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Corinne' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Don Quixote & Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Don Quixote & Calderon' | Mary Shelley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy the Witch of Atlas' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Witch of Atlas, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - not well - Indicators' | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Indicator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Sintram - S. not well' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Heinrich Karl | Sintram und seine Gefahrten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a book of Tasso to Shelley.' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Reading list by Mary Shelley of Percy Shelley's reading in 1820. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so do not... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Erskine | Armata: a fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Mary Shelley | Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita Castruccio Castracani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Tasso' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Greek - Voltaire's Tales' | Mary Shelley | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads fragments of Aeschylus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Aeschylus | [fragments] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Abbot' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Abbot, The: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Oedipus Tyrannus' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Villani' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Villani | Johannis Villani Florentini Historia Universalis a condita Florentina usque ad Annum MCCCXLVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dante's Vita Nuova' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.'
| Charles Darwin | John Frederick William Herschel | Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in th... | Charles Darwin | Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will ... | Charles Darwin | Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Herbert Spencer | A System of Synthetic Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 January 1838:
'In my childish days & for some days afterwards I have r... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Seward | Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838:
'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boile... | Mary Russell Mitford | Jean Racine | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838:
'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boile... | Mary Russell Mitford | Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838:
'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.26 February 1838:
'I saw the following advertisement in the Athenaeum of S... | Elizabeth Barrett | | advertisement for rare antique Bible | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838:
'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Alford | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838:
'[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Garth | The Dispensary, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838:
'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | "The Exile" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838:
'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Mil... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838:
'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silenc... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | "The Greek Wife" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Noon Talfourd to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 June 1838:
'Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett... | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Elizabeth Barrett | The Seraphim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838:
'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Noon Talfourd, 13 June 1838:
'Miss Barrett presents her compliments to Mr Serjeant Talf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | The Athenian Captive | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you Cap. Beecheys voyage to the Pacific? if you have not, I will buy it, as it contains some most excellent Mete... | Charles Darwin | Frederick W Beechey | Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom. London | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 June 1838:
'I have seen an extract from a private letter of Mr Chorley ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | letter (extract) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 June 1838:
'Mr Townsend's poems have just reached me. I have had no ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Edwin Austin Townsend | Visions of the Western Railways | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838:
'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Edwin Austin Townsend | Visions of the Western Railways | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838:
'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Sargent Osgood | 'romance' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 September 1838:
'I "remind you" to tell me all about Miss Landon's hu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Madame de Grandrion | Duty and Inclination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 October 1838:
'I did not receive Finden immediately. I had desired Pa... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Findens' Tableaux of the Affections: A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After looking at my 11 books of Euclid, & first part of Algebra (including binomial theorem?) I may then begin Trigon... | Charles Darwin | Euclid | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, late November 1838:
'I cannot return the [italics]Book of Beauty[end italics... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | poems 'The Gazelles' and 'On Presenting a Young Invalid With a Bunch of Early Violets' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 March 1839:
'I like Schiller's Robbers better than any other play of ... | Elizabeth Barrett | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Rauber | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now first felt even moderately well, & I was picturing to myself all the delights of fresh fruit growing in beautif... | Charles Darwin | Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence ... | Charles Darwin | Alexander von Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have not spoiled the... | Charles Darwin | | La Dictionnaire Classique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.' | Charles Darwin | Francis Bond Head | Gallop: Rapid journeys across the Pampas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late March 1839:
'Beloved Papa & Sette were obliged to go away two days ... | Septimus Moulton-Barrett | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839:
'What can I do bound hand and foot in this wild... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lancelot Andrewes | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839:
'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839:
'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one... | Robert Browning | Honore de Balzac | Beatrix ou les Amours Forces | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839:
'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one... | Euphrasia Fanny Haworth | Honore de Balzac | "Scenes" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839:
'At painful times, when composition is impossible & readi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Parkhurst | An Hebrew and English Lexicon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839:
'At painful times, when composition is impossible & readi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Lee | A Grammar of the Hebrew Language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839:
'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end i... | Elizabeth Barrett | Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton | Cheveley, or the Man of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839:
''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient D... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Fullerton Cumming, M.D. | Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839:
'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and s... | George Goodin Moulton-Barrett | Sir Edward Coke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839:
'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | stanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 13-14 July 1839:
'I told [Mr Naylor] [...] that the gift of his book... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Naylor | Ceracchi, a Drama and other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 August 1839:
'I a personally quite unacquainted with Mr Horne [...] Ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839:
'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | The Lion, a Tale of the Coteries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839:
'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little w... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Sketches of a Sea Port Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839:
'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, 16 September 1839:
'Wish "Paracelsus" luck, by the way, at the Great St... | Robert Browning | | racing programme | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839:
'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eliza Cook | Melaia, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1840:
'[Mary Hunter] was brought up a dissenter among dissent... | Mary Hunter | | Church of England catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Judging from the Pamphlet, you gave me & which I have found very useful, the insects of the Rio Plata are tolerably w... | Charles Darwin | Jean Theodore Lacordaire | M?moire sur les habitudes des Col?opt?res de l'Am?rique m?ridionale. | |
| 1800-1849 | 'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I woul... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly ... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am now reading the Oxford Report.' | Charles Darwin | | The Report of the second meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 1832. | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing be... | Thomas Carlyle | Charles Hughes Terot | Poems | Manuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC |
| 1850-1899 | ?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frances Sitwell | letter | Manuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage]. |
| 1850-1899 | ?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo's Romances | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| 1850-1899 | ?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up f... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Comtesse de Rudolstadt | |
| 1850-1899 | ?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long... | Samuel Smiles | John Home | Douglas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long... | Samuel Smiles | Campbell | The Wizard's Warning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown"... | Samuel Smiles | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840:
'[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a boo... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Catalogue of library of Samuel Parr | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Catherine Gore | Preferment: or, My Uncle the Earl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | One Fault. A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck | Select Memoirs of Port Royal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840:
'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been str... | Mary Russell Mitford | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840:
''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I hav... | Elizabeth Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, mid-February 1840:
'Did you ever hear how poor Mr Reade has compromised ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Review of William Reade's poems Italy and The Deluge | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840:
'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few day... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Merry | The Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sure Evidence of the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840:
'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N. | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840:
'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - &... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leigh Hunt | A Legend of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840:
'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840:
'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen amo... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Darley | Sylvia; or, The May Queen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Athe... | Thomas Carlyle | Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) | The Liberal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so ma... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena | Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a ... | Thomas Carlyle | Andrew Ure | Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed for Extending and Improving Meteorological Observations' (1820) | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Till lately I have never read Spenser, and therefore was not personally acquainted with his beauties. Neither do I me... | Emily Shore | Edmund Spenser | 'Hymn of Heavenly Beautie' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the mo... | Emily Shore | | | Print: flags |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The ... | Thomas Carlyle | Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) | The Liberal | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon) | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the c... | Emily Shore | Edmund Spenser | 'Mother Hubbard's Tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Charles Rollin | The Ancient History | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Vittorio Alfieri | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 May 1840:
'I had finished Napoleon & was about to write to you on th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | The History of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840:
'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book agai... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Darley | Thomas a Becket | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840:
'["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Glencoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840:
'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | The Return of the Druses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840:
'You cant guess what my business has been la... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840:
'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Powell | poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 January 1839:
'You may fancy our surprise when, upon opening the A... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | 'L.E.L.'s Last Question' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839:
'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote ou... | George Goodin Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839:
'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote ou... | Arabella Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch w... | Thomas Carlyle | Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade | Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind litt... | Thomas Carlyle | Margaret A. Carlyle | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224. | Vernon Lee | Grant Allen | Physiological Aesthetics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | Mary Arnold-Forster | Studies in Dreams | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some textual marginalia in pencil in French on pages 173 and 176, and pencil marks throughout. | Vernon Lee | Lucien Arreat | Les croyances des demain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout. | Vernon Lee | Lucien Arreat | Memoire et imagination | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only. | Vernon Lee | Georges Hirth | Physiologie de l'art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321. | Vernon Lee | (Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud | De la methode dans les sciences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere. | Vernon Lee | (Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud | De la methode dans les sciences, deuxieme serie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | James Mark Baldwin | Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | James Mark Baldwin | Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: a study in social psychology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 38, 47, 54, 65. | Vernon Lee | Gilbert Ballet | Le langage interieur, et les diverse formes de l'aphasie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163. | Vernon Lee | Salomon Stricker | Du langage et de musique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | William Bateson | Problems of Genetics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Detailed notes at the front and considerable marginalia in both English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Albert Bazaillas | Musique et inconscience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginal notes in English and French throughout, especially pp.127-37 | Vernon Lee | Henri Etienne Beaunis | Les sensations internes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Camille Bellaigue | Psychologie musicale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee. | Vernon Lee | Julien Benda | Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la Mobilit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand. | Vernon Lee | A.C. Benson | Walter Pater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginal notes in pencil in English and French throughout; summary index of notes on the title page and f... | Vernon Lee | Henri Bergson | L'evolution creatrice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I f... | William Cobbett | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on t... | S.J. Pratt | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days s... | J. Mitford | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Dr. Russell's verses are very highly welcomed. I like them very much. There is great simplicit, neatness... | R.A. Davenport | Dr Russell | Verses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make ... | J.P. Smith | Mary Russell Mitford | Blanch of Castile and other poems | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledg... | Lord Holland | Mary Russell Mitford | Poems on the Female Character | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, a... | Sir William Elford | Gilbert White | Selborne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and de... | Sir William Elford | Mary Russell Mitford | The Sisters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Lif... | Sir William Elford | Maria Edgeworth | Tales of Fashionable Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not th... | Sir William Elford | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears t... | Sir William Elford | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect... | Sir William Elford | Sir H. Englefield | Verses on Waltzing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Virgil | Envy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | John Wilson | The City of the Plague | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel d... | Eleanor Anne Porden | unknown | Strathallan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you ... | P. Bayley | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somew... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collater... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Sismondi | Literature du Midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I though... | Eleanor Anne Porden | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pa... | Eleanor Anne Porden | George Crabbe | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Washington Irving | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effec... | W.C. Macready | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Vita Nuova.' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. begins King Lear in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Antient Mariner aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin the Defence of Poesy by Sir P. Sidney.' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Defence of Poesie, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace with S in the evening' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Horace | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Case is Altered, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir P. Sydneys defence of poetry' | Mary Shelley | Philip Sidney | Defence of Poesie, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Defence of Poetry, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante' | Mary Shelley | John Taaffe | Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the Antigone' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Osservatore Fiorentino' | Mary Shelley | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Osservatore F.' | Mary Shelley | Marco Lastri | L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua patria per servire alla storia della medesima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3 odes of Anacreon' | Mary Shelley | Anacreon | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Franco Sacchetti | Delle novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour' | Mary Shelley | Edward Williams | Promise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a Day | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. goes to Pisa. - finishes the Rape of the Lock to me in the Evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Pope's Essay on Criticism aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Old Plays' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott (ed.) | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Treatise on Magic & Malthus' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Geoffrey Chaucer | Troilus and Criseyde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Of Poulation... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Answer to Malthus - finish it' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Of Population... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on that Subject | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read greek - read Mackenzies works' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [Ancient Greek works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read greek - read Mackenzies works' | Mary Shelley | Henry Mackenzie | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Edgeworths life.' | Mary Shelley | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Philoctetes' | Mary Shelley | Sophocles | Philoctetes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Old plays' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott (ed.) | Ancient English Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid' | Mary Shelley | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour... in Portugal, Italy and France in the Years 1817-19 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. A... | Eleanor Anne Franklin | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.' | Eleanor Anne Franklin | | Advertisement for Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It... | Dr Milman | Mary Russell Mitford | Cromwell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I a... | | Mary Russell Mitford | Fanny's Fairings | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown aw... | Alexander Dyce | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ... | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Mary Russell Mitford | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'Orville | Les Anecdotes Germaniques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is mea... | Barbara Hofland | Mrs S.C. Hall | Sketches of Irish Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S... | Susanna Strickland | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to ex... | Kate Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember rea... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Inez | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainte... | Emma Roberts | Mary Russell Mitford | works | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, whic... | Fanny Trollope | unknown | journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing ... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his ... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both m... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simpl... | Catharine Sedgwick | Harriet Martineau | works on political economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been we... | Mary and William Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes,... | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes,... | Barbara Hofland | Fanny Kemble | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman o... | Barbara Hofland | H. Tudor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Willis's Melaine, etc., I have been delighted, and indeed affected, more than with any poetry I ever read in my ... | Barbara Hofland | Willis | Melaine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [..... | Catharine Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last f... | N.P. Willis | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, late January 1841:
'I have just read your reply to the Monthly Critic -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | response to article in the Monthly Critic | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ... | George Ticknor | Dr. Channing | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ... | George Ticknor | Catharine M Sedgwick | Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you very much for the gift of "Ion"; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was grea... | Mary Howitt | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Ion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 February 1841:
'If you are looking out for romances to melt away the s... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Montgomery Bird | Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that... | Mary Howitt | Robert Nicholls | Arouse the Soul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that... | Mary Howitt | Robert Nicholls | I Dare not Scorn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 10 March 1841:
'I have seen Orpheus, & write just to thank you for the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'Orpheus' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Mary Howitt | | Advertisement for new edition of Mary Russell Mitford's "Our Village" | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Alfred Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Miss Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 June 1841:
'I have been reading Blanchard's life of poor L.E.L. [...]... | Mary Russell Mitford | Samuel Laman Blanchard | Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in "Blackwood's" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the w... | Mary Howitt | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841:
'Before I forget again .. have you looked into the "History... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury | The History of a Flirt: Related by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841:
'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841:
'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 August 1841:
'I have seen & read [italics]the book[end italics] [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright... | Miss Crow | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athena... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | 'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Painted after her Death by Mr Lucas' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841:
'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | 'The Doom of Cheynholme' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841:
'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 September 1841:
'Mr Haydon's letters shut up in the best letter of al... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | letters to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841:
'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Stephens | Martinuzzi | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 October 1841:
'I have not heard from Mr Horne since he wrote to me of... | Dr Tom Stone | George Stephens | Martinuzzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841:
'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Washington Irving | Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841:
'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now come... | Mary Russell Mitford | Leigh Hunt | Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841:
'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much plea... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | 'Upper Austria' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1841, having recommended she read
Theodosia Garrow's narrativ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | poem on death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.' | Charles Darwin | William Whewell | Essay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Summary index of not... | Vernon Lee | Henri Bergson | Matiere et Memoire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Note on inside cover... | Vernon Lee | Henri Bergson | Essai sur les donn?es imm?diates de la conscience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affe... | Vernon Lee | Alexis Bertrand | La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?... | Vernon Lee | Fr?d?ric Paulhan | Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German throughout. | Vernon Lee | Theodor Billroth | Wer ist musikalisch? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5. | Vernon Lee | Alfred Binet | Les r?v?lations de l??criture d?apr?s un contr?le scientifique | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Alfred Binet | La psychologie du raisonnement: recherches exp?rimentales par l?hypnotisme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages: 14, 37, 44, 76, 88 | Vernon Lee | Pierre Bonnier | L'orientation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only. | Vernon Lee | Henry Noel Brailsford | A League of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughout | Vernon Lee | Henry Noel Brailsford | The war of steel and gold: a study of the armed peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rea... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Der wirtschaftende mensch in der geschichte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German, throughout the volume. This volume was given... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Die Anf?nge des modernen Kapitalismus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the insid... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928?... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929. | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages only: 65, 232-3. | Vernon Lee | Joseph S. Bridges | Plant Study in School Field & Garden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout. | Vernon Lee | Jules Combarieu | Les rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid?r?es au point de vue de l?expression | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51 | Vernon Lee | Julien-Noel Costantin | Les v?g?taux et les milieux cosmiques (adaptation ? ?volution) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page... | Vernon Lee | Benedetto Croce | Estetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguistica generale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8 | Vernon Lee | Theodor Dahmen | Die Theorie des sch?nen von dem bewegungsprincip abgeleitete ?sthetik | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read S's Adonais.' | Mary Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Adonais' | Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs' | Mary Shelley | J. Hutchinson | Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to which is prefixed the Life of Mrs Hutchinson written by herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ludlow's memoirs' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ludlow's Memoirs' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read to Mrs G.[isborne]' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 books of Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Matilda to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Anastatius [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Hope | Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Kenilworth' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Kenilworth: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Cain' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Vision of Judgement'. | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Vision of Judgment, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the German's tale' | Mary Shelley | Harriet Lee | 'Kruitzner or the German's tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Caleb Williams to Jane' | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' 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... | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [Greek texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks' | Mary Shelley | John G. Dalyell | Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Herodotus with S.' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read - Tegrino' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita Castrucci Castracani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Matilda to E.' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Matilda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish C.A. to Jane' | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | Valperga | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Milton on divorce' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'E. reads the shipwreck of the Wager to us in the Evening' | Edward Williams | John G. Dalyell | [account of shipwreck of Wager in] Shipwrecks and Diasters at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.) | 'Floure and the Leaf, The', attributed to Chaucer in edition of his Works. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.) | 'Chaucer's Dream', attributed to Chaucer in edition of his Works. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.' | Mary Shelley | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Ivanhoe' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Heaven and Earth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer and Waverly' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Waverley, or 'tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer and the Antiquary' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Rob Roy' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Emile' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Werner | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sardanapalus' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sardanapalus, a Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Two Foscari' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Two Foscari, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate' | Mary Shelley | Walter Scott | Pirate, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [probably] Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3rd Canto of l'Inferno' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Hope | Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Anastatius [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Hope | Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Greek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Letters from Norway' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Wrongs of Woman' | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Florence Macarthy' | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: an Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque' | Mary Shelley | David Lyndsay [pseud.] | Dramas of theAncient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque' | Mary Shelley | Francois Fenelon | Les Aventures de Telemaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou suite du quatrieme livre de l'Odyssee d'Homere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Macchiavelli's history.' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Historie Fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Historie Fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala' | Mary Shelley | Anthony Hamilton | Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala' | Mary Shelley | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand | Atala; ou les amours de deux sauvages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata' | Mary Shelley | Euripides | Ion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata' | Mary Shelley | 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 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata' | Mary Shelley | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Le... | Horace Walpole | Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Le Siege de Calais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | [probably] Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.' | Mary Shelley | Francis Bacon | Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten centuries. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.' | Mary Shelley | Francis Bacon | Apopthegmes New and Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Kant's Geografica Fisica' | Mary Shelley | Immanuel Kant | Physische Geographie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Unwell - read Madme de Stael's vie privee de Necker' | Mary Shelley | Madame de Stael | Memoires sur la vie privee de mon pere, par Madame la Baronne de Stael Holstein, suivis des Melanges de M. Necker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica' | Mary Shelley | Immanuel Kant | Physische Geographie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c' | Mary Shelley | Immanuel Kant | Physische Geographie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Ugo Foscolo | Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Darwin | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 November 1841:
'The Roman Brother -- & thank you! -- There are fine t... | Elizabeth Barrett | John A. Heraud | The Roman Brother: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1841:
'Mrs Niven may keep the Pneumatology as long, just as l... | Mary Russell Mitford | Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling | Theory of Pneumatology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841:
'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr... | Elizabeth Barrett | R. M. Milnes | One Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The Tracts for the Times," Externally Regarded: by a Layman | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841:
'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ann Radcliffe | Gaston de Blondeville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841:
'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas J. Serle | Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to William Harness, February 1842:
'My poor father has passed this winter in a miserable state... | Mary Russell Mitford | | daily newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for in... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Brownell Jameson | writings including Conversations on the State of Art and Literature in Germany (1837) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | The Blue Belles of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'I have kept back my letter that I might send you S... | Mrs Cox | Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Rachel Talfourd, c.1842:
'Out of certain projects of calling personally and saying my thankful s... | Robert Browning | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842:
'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? M... | Elizabeth Barrett | Joseph Hunter | A Disquisition on the Scene, Origin, Date, etc. of Shakespeare's Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842:
'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? M... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Alford | Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 7 January 1842:
'Miss Barrett -- inferring Mr Westwood from the handwriting, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Note to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842:
'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Bel... | Mary Russell Mitford | Frances Trollope | The Blue Belles of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1842:
'I have won a sight of the Poetae Christiani -- but the pri... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Poetae Graeci Christiani, una cum Homericus Centonibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 18 January 1842:
'What can you have thought, my dear Mr Horne, of all t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | Alsargis | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842:
'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842:
'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Burney | Diary and Letters (Volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Margaret Baron-Wilson | The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Hayley | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq ... Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1842:
'I have only read the first volume of Madame D'Arblay's "Dia... | Mary Russell Mitford | Frances Burney | Diary and Letters (Volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 March 1842:
'Since writing to you yesterday, my beloved friend, I have... | Mary Russell Mitford | H. F. Chorley | Music and Manners | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | | De legibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic]with me in Devonshire -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | works attributed to Plato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sophocles | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842:
'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842:
'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aristotle | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842:
'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aristotle | 'work upon rhetoric' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I get home my noble aunt is reading the papers. At the time I was writing this the number of people reading the... | | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side wou... | Diana Mosley | Lytton Strachey | Elizabeth and Essex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a w... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight cont... | Sidney Webb | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 3 October. I am reading "A Room of One's Own". Most delightful and profound - if I had the time I would write ... | Barbara Pym | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day for a fortnight at the end of February, an observer brought a copy of the "Daily Mirror" into the canteen a... | | | Daily Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, t... | | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hundreds of men and women were standing on the stairs leading to the basement. They read newspapers, they chatted, t... | | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of ple... | John Fossett | Vere Hodgson | MS diary | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received my desk today [shipped from England] & have been reading my letters to mine own Shelley during his ab... | Mary Shelley | Mary Shelley | [letters to PB Shelley] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I... | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read' | Mary Shelley | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulw... | Mary Shelley | Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton | Paul Clifford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - i... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at f... | Mary Shelley | Madame de Genlis | Memoires inedits de madame la comtesse de Genlis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at f... | Mary Shelley | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.'
[letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont] | Mary Shelley | Prosper Merimee | La Jacquerie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose'
[lett... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Crofton Croker | Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certa... | Mary Shelley | John Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With many thanks I return your books -The Man of two Lives is founded on a good idea - treated to a great degree happ... | Mary Shelley | James Boaden | Man of Two Lives, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - th... | Mary Shelley | Washington Irving | Conquest of Granada, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[... | Mary Shelley | Stendhal [pseud.] | Promenades dans Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life -
I have... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Life of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lor... | William Godwin | Thomas Moore | Life of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Cloudesley - the interest is inexpressibly absorbing - there is a truth and majesty in the delin... | Mary Shelley | William Godwin | Cloudesley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was n... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "Victor Hugo's Romances" | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances? |
| 1850-1899 | ?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | [material on John Knox] | Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox |
| 1800-1849 | 'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which... | Mary Shelley | Laetitia Elizabeth Landon | Romance and Reality | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which... | Mary Shelley | William Johnson Neale | Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite... | Mary Shelley | William Johnson Neale | Cavendish; or, the Patrician at Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - som... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer | Eugene Aram | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of Ma... | Mary Shelley | Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby | Contrast, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when ... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer | Godolphin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when ... | Mary Shelley | Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.] | Marriage in High Life, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and t... | Percy Shelley | Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and t... | Percy Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [translation of Homer's Hymn to Mercury and the Cyclops] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply excit... | Mary Shelley | Anselm von Feurbach | Caspar Hauser | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Percy is reading the [underline] Antigone [end underlining]'
[letter to Maria Gisborne] | Percy Shelley | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun the Adone - & like it'
[letter to Maria Gisborne] | Mary Shelley | Giambattista Marino | L'Adone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besid... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Stepney's Novel shall be returned to you in a day or two - It is very clever & amusing'
[Letter to Charles Ol... | Mary Shelley | Lady Stepney | Heir Presumptive, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain... | Mary Shelley | Caroline Norton | "The Wife" and "Woman's Reward" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am anxious to thank S.G. [Signor Giovanni = John Gisborne] for the pleasure I have received from his tale of Italy ... | Mary Shelley | John Gisborne | [a tale of Italy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?'
[l... | Mary Shelley | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.] | Works of Garcilaso de la Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you wri... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Legend of Florence, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful -
O let not words, the callous shell of thought
& I will not say my... | Richard Monckton Milnes | Richard Monckton Milnes | Poetry for the People | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You liked "St Thomas's Eve" which gave great promise - a promise which "The Heir Of Cyprus" redeems. The tory is far ... | Mary Shelley | Alexander Andrew Knox | Heir of Cyprus, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book'
[letter to Edward Moxon] | Mary Shelley | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Recollections of a first visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning y... | Mary Shelley | Abraham Hayward | [account of Euroipean travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of... | Leigh Hunt | Mary Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Imagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Paradiso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ... | Mary Shelley | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary writes to Alexander Blackwood, asking if he might be inclined to accept for "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" a t... | Mary Shelley | James Abbott | [story of India] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another n... | Mary Shelley | Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn | Grafin Faustine | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another n... | Mary Shelley | Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn | [a novel] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842:
'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs ..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Francois Marmontel | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842:
'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming"... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Richardson | Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'I like this waste of the public money upon bishops of Ne... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Edwin Austin Townsend | poem on the departure and farewell sermon of George Augustus Selwyn, on his being appointed Bishop of New Zealand | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842:
'I made my father happy in reading what you say of Sir R... | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Barrett | letter to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842:
'I remember a few years ago reading speeches by O'Connel... | Mary Russell Mitford | | speeches of Daniel O'Connell | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip Massinger | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ben Jonson | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Select Collection of Old Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wiliam Charles Macready, Journal, 6 August 1841:
'Finished the play of Plighted Troth -- a play written in a quaint... | William Charles Macready | Charles F. Darley | Plighted Troth | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256. | Vernon Lee | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Detailed notes on the front flyleaf and half-title page, and extensive marginalia in pencil in French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Lionel Dauriac | Essai sur l'esprit musical | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume, and summary notes on the inside front cover. | Vernon Lee | Hans Driesch | The History & Theory of Vitalism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Georges Dumas | La tristesse et la joie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Emile Durkheim | De la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?organisation des soci?t?s sup?rieures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925 | Vernon Lee | Beatrice Edgell | Theories of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Henry Fawcett | Manual of Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front ... | Vernon Lee | Charles F?r | Sensations et Mouvement: ?tudes exp?rimentale de psycho-m?canique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274. | Vernon Lee | Charles W. Ferguson | The Confusion of Tongues: a review of modernisms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Summary index in pencil in Vernon Lee's hand on page 244. | Vernon Lee | Guđmundur Finnbogason | L'intelligence sympathetique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end ... | Vernon Lee | Jacques Vontade | L??me des Anglais (Hypoth?ses Impertinentes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Much marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. 'Finished reading Giovedi Santi 1929' written on the half-... | Vernon Lee | Henry Ford | My Life and Work | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34. | Vernon Lee | F.W. Gamble | The Animal World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Patrick Geddes | The Evolution of Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Patrick Geddes | Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Human Work | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Home: Its Work and Influence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear in... | Vernon Lee | Rudolf Goldscheid | H?herentwicklung und Menschen?konomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German... | Vernon Lee | Rudolf Goldscheid | Entwicklungswerttheorie, Entwicklungs?konomie, Menschen?konomie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive... | Vernon Lee | Edwin S. Goodrich | Living Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Einleitung in die Aesthetik | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with pa... | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Der Aesthetische Genuss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28. | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Die Lehre vom umfassenden Seelenein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers. | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Die Befreiungen der Seele | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear insid... | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Das Seelenleben des Kindes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Daniel Defoe | Memoirs of a Cavalier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Daniel Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842:
'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 March 1842:
'I beg you at last to receive my very earnest thanks for ... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Russell Lowell | A Year's Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842:
'The "Rhymed Plea" is admirable "after its kind" -- but wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | A Rhymed Plea for Tolerance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842:
'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Agnes Maria Bennett | The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | John Kenyon | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Mrs Jamieson | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Richard Hengist Horne | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | George Barrett Hunter | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 April 1842:
'The best and fullest biography [of William Cowper] in all... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Southey (ed) | The Works of William Cowper, Esq., ... With a Life of the Author | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842:
'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842:
'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842:
'My dear Mr Browning
'I was very much obliged to you, fo... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | 'The Cardinal and the Dog' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842:
'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | letter to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842:
'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842:
'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the othe... | Mary Russell Mitford | Scott | 'Tom Cringle's Log' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 4 May 1842:
'I have had a great shock lately, in the death of poor La... | Mary Russell Mitford | | death notice of Lady Sidmouth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being... | Mary Ann Ashford | [unknown] | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af... | Mary Ann Ashford | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af... | Mary Ann Ashford | [unknown] | [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society] | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fic... | Mary Ann Ashford | Catherine Crowe | Susan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid Servant | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles... | Benjamin Brierley | [John] [Cleave] | Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles... | Benjamin Brierley | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841:
'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or ra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays: First Series | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842:
'I send this with Tennyson's new vol -- The alterations are insane.... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842:
'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two... | Robert Browning | Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Eva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and Poems (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842:
'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 July 1842:
'If our dear Mr Kenyon should turn out to be bewitched [by... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ellen Pickering | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842:
'As to Charlotte Elizabeth -- yes, I have read that litt... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | 'little books' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842:
'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Romilly | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842:
'My dearest friend, here is the newspaper [containing... | Elizabeth Barrett | | The Berkshire Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842:
'Will Mrs Partridge receive the expression of my earn... | Elizabeth Barrett | | report of reprieve of condemned criminal Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Thomas Powell, c.October 1842:
'I am highly obliged to you [...] for the two volumes of verse no... | Robert Browning | Thomas Powell | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 October 1842:
'I had the gratification of receiving a good while ago, t... | William Wordsworth | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 29 October 1842:
'I have to thank you [...] for the sight of a very in... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | letter to the Sheffield Mercury regarding formation of a School of Design in Sheffield. | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842:
'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. S... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | The Barnabys in America | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on
its Institutions (1839... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederick Marryat | A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842:
'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Ble... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia Garrow | The Keepsake for 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Louis de Maynard de Queilhe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842:
'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ... | Joseph and Maria Arnould | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842:
'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | 'Waring' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
'"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the end... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Leila | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Ch... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | Les derniers jours d'un condamne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
'I have just done reading a romance of Frederick Souli... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Pollock | The Course of Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | review article on Tennyson and/or Browning | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leigh Hunt | review article on Tennyson and/or Browning | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842:
'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Ne... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederika Bremer | The Neighbours: A Story of Everyday Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 December 1842:
'I did think the fifth volume [of Frances Burney D'Arbl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Burney D'Arblay | Diary and Letters (Volume 5) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from... | | Henry Van Dyke | The Other Wise Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from... | | Frank Morrison | Who Moved the Stone | Print: Book |
| | 'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from... | | H.V. Morton | In the Steps of the Master | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1842:
'Ah -- my poor dearest Papa! How I remember the coming... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | | Letter announcing financial/property loss | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'We are reading "The Prisoner of Zenda" in sewing lessons. It is very exciting, and I love it.' | Hilary Spalding | Antony Hope | The Prizoner of Zenda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842:
'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Howitt | The Seven Temptations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842:
'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]O... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alfred Tennyson | 'Oriana' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842:
'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaula... | Robert Browning | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 13 December 1842:
'I read Tennyson. "Locksley Hall" is very fine; but s... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alfred Tennyson | 'Locksley Hall' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842:
'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh ov... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842:
'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Leila | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Jacques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Indiana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842:
'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | Letter to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842:
'Did you ever look at -- I dont say [italics]read[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon fils | Le Sopha, Conte Moral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'un... | Elizabeth Barrett | Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon | Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, sa Cour et son Regne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Comtesse de Genlis | Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did mu... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | 'Carthon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. tra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Gorgias | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843:
'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | autobiography | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843:
'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Hugh Blair | A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843:
'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been ... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | Ossian poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843:
'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Ware | Zenobia: or, The Fall of Palmyra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843:
'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anton Felix Schindler | The Life of Beethoven | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19
January 1843:
'Since I last... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | Poems of Darthula | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 27
January 1843:
'Since I last wro... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | | Encyclopedia entry on 'Ossian' controversy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second
floor of a house ful... | Liz | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843:
'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three door... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 11 February 1843:
'I wish I could send you the "Confessio amantis" -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Gower | Confessio Amantis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March
1843:
'Since I last wrote... | Harriet Holmes | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Wilson (as Christopher North) | The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843:
'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Ba... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last of the Barons (extract) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The since... | Mary Shelley | Thornton Hunt | Foster Brother, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could all... | Mary Shelley | Knox | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Stories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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 ... | Mary Shelley | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How detestably Sir Edward Bulwer speaks of Shelley in his life of Schiller. - he thinks to gain popularity by truckli... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | [biograpohical sketch in] Poems and Ballads of Schiller | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Cherry Orchard' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | 'Rosamond' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inc... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Duty and Inclination (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inc... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Duty and Inclination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [ital... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very inte... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be a... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Wit and Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815:
'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding... | Francis Horner | Robert Southey | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Wit and Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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... | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843:
'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the harde... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last of the Barons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843:
'I have seen Bewick only in extracts -- therefore you are... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Bewick | The History of British Birds (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like your verses very much, they are marked by elegance, simplicity & feeling - they bear the stamp of reality bein... | Mary Shelley | Abraham Hayward | Verses of Other Days | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your... | Mary Shelley | Leigh Hunt | Men, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came to see me yesterday [...] and he brought ... | John Kenyon | William Wordsworth | letter to Crabbe Robinson | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]'
[letter to Leigh Hunt] | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843:
'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Harg... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | Hargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of Fashion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The ... | Mary Shelley | Edward Bulwer | Night & Morning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles'
[letter to Claire Clairmont] | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843:
'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remaine... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843:
'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Julius Caesar | De Bello Gallico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come o... | Mary Shelley | [n/a] | Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett (in hand of an amanuensis, Boyd being blind), letter
postmarked 13 April 1843:... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | | article regarding Ossian controversy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843:
'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mrs Samuel Carter Hall | unknown | Print: Unknown |
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1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | [unknown] | [great poets' works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | Bayley | [Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | [?] Catechism of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Sarah Trimmer | Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Church Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | Richard Walter | Voyage Around the World by George Anson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | William Lempriere | Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Taruant ; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | [unknown] | History of Montezuma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this da... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mason | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Gottfried August Burger | Lenore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was ... | brothers of Elizabeth missing Sewell, including Henry, William and James | Joseph Glanvill | Philosophical Considerations touching Witches and Witchcraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor | [n/a] | Arabian Nights Entertainments, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of m... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Book of Judges | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, r... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only du... | Eliazbeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have ta... | Eliazbeth Missing Sewell | Matthew Henry | Communicant's Companion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843:
'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | unknown | 'life' of David Wilkie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843:
'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Benjamin Robert Haydon | journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 1 May 1843:
'I have been reading Carlyle .. his "Past & Present" -- The... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843:
'[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | | notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843:
'[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Grace Darling | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843:
'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederika Bremer | The Home: or, Family Cares and Family Joys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843:
'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last Jan... | Elizabeth Barrett | Julia Pardoe | 'Modern Turkish Travellers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843:
'Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon'... | Elizabeth Barrett | Nicholas John Halpin | Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843:
'By the way [...] I have been reading you in the Illuminat... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | article on Royal Commission on Children's Employment | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843:
'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | Sacred Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843:
'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Giorgio Vasari | Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843:
'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843:
'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,... | anon | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 June 1843:
'My idea of [italics]V[ed italics] has always been .. a cl... | Elizabeth Barrett | V | IX Poems by V. (extracts) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843:
'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sw... | Mary Mordwinoff Haydon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 30 June 1843:
'I honor Mrs Coleridge for the readiness of reasoning & integrity i... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mrs Coleridge | 'On Rationalism' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Katherine Cockell to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 June 1843:
'I could not put Orion out of my hands for my needful food, -... | Katherine Cockell | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Robertson | History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Isaac Watts | Improvement of the Mind, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [History of Venetian Doges] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 July 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came yesterday -- & he had just been reading, he... | John Kenyon | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 July 1843:
'Mr Kenyon was with me yesterday, and praised "Orion" most... | John Kenyon | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [a Spanish grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [a Spanish dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'I like the spirit & courteous goodness of Mr James's book... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Payne Rainsford James | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [Linnaean botany book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightfu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived fr... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laetitia Hawkins | Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1843:
'Mr Borrow [italics]is[end italics] a very original & char... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Borrow | The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles James Lever | Charles O'Malley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Yonge | Daisy Chain, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i... | Charlotte Yonge and her mother | Mrs Mozley | Fairy Bower, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the ca... | Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters | [unknown] | [Oxford Movement sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Martha Sherwood | [Tales based on Church Catechism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Earl's Daughter, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Margaret Percival | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Laneton parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wolfe was a great admirer of Gray's "Elegy"; and as he was going down the river with his officers, previous to the st... | James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | [a sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | Life of Stephen Langton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed s... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Frances Tilley | Chollerton: A tale of our own times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Archibald Alison | History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the ... | anon. | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J.W. Kaye | Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Edward Bouverie Pusey | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843:
'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Howitt | Rural and Domestic Life of Germany | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [pamphlets and magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Mrs Meyrick | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 August 1843:
'I owe to you many many moments of pleasure, some ideas (rar... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Barrett | The Dead Pan | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 August 1843:
'I heard of Orion the other day being admired at the fir... | Anna Brownell Jameson | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 August 1843:
'I intended to return the book much earlier, but [...] the "L... | Thomas Westwood | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 August 1843:
'Miss Mitford read to me -- and with what a melodious f... | Mary Russell Mitford | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The House of Clouds' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843:
'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their rep... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cornelius Mathews | Motley Book | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843:
'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their rep... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cornelius Mathews | Behemoth, a Legend of the Moundbuilders | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843:
'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass... | Thomas Westwood | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843:
'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass... | Thomas Westwood | Elizabeth Barrett | review of Richard Hengist Horne, Orion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843:
'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass... | Thomas Westwood | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | The Shadow of Death | |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843:
'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could sc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 October 1843:
'Lady M. Lambton discharged her commission punctually, bri... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Barrett | The Seraphim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning, Sr to Thomas Powell, 11 March 1843:
'I hope the enclosed may be acceptable as curiosities. They we... | Robert Browning, Sr | Robert Browning, Jr | 'On Bonaparte' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near he... | Robert Louis Stevenson | D.V. Thomas | advertisement | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to William Merry, 2 November 1843:
'Your book [...] is written in a spirit so amiable & concilia... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Merry | Predestination and Election, Considered Scripturally | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 December 1843:
'I have read in Baron Dupotet's & Dr Stone's book upon Mes... | Elizabeth Barrett | Baron Jean du Potet de Sennevoy | An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism ... With an Appendix Containing Reports of British Practitioners in Favour of the Science | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843:
'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lay of the Humble' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843:
'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Hood | 'The Song of the Shirt' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843:
'One or two volumes of the Memoirs of the queens of E... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hannah Lawrance | Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England from the Commencement of the Twelfth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843:
'Either a Stickney or a Strictland wrote the "Poetry ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sarah Ellis (nee Stickney) | The Poetry of Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hooker | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843:
'Although not agreeing with you that the poetry of Car... | Elizabeth Barrett | Caroline Bowles | The Birth-Day | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843:
'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843:
'On my return from a long, weary walk through mud & mist, y... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | epitaph for Robert Southey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843:
'I must not forget to thank you for your recommendation of ... | Thomas Westwood | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 31 December 1843:
'With thanks I return the verses of your artist friend [enc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Woods | lines of poetry | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to a Skylark | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Alastor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844:
'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him... | Thomas Westwood | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam (Canto I) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Ruskin | Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I [...] was singing after my own fashion "Du hast diamentem und Perlen"[...]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Heinrich Heine | Du hast Diamenten und Perlen | Print: song |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris. 1 fr 50c. monthly). The critical articl... | Arnold Bennett | | La Nouvelle Revue Francaise | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A copy of the latest annual report of the Royal Literary Fund was recently forwarded to me from headquarters, and I h... | Arnold Bennett | | Royal Literary Fund annual report | Print: report |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.' | Arnold Bennett | Charles Sarolea | 'Everyman' magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | La Maison Tellier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read 'Higuerota' again not long since, I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the pri... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Agent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Under Western Eyes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Sharer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 December 1843:
'Looking over a book catalogue this morning I saw Agn... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Book catalogue | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5-6 January 1844:
'[George Payne Rainsford James] is a picturesque writ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Payne Rainsford James | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844:
'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Beads from a Rosary | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and
describes in [italics]The... | Lady Jane Grey | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844:
'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I ... | Richard Hengist Horne | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844:
'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ... | Thomas Westwood | Richard Hengist Horne | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844:
'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ... | Thomas Westwood | Richard Hengist Horne | The Ballad of Delora | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844:
'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ... | Thomas Westwood | Elizabeth Barrett | Annotations in Richard Hengist Horne, The Ballad of Delora | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844:
'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | The Ballad of Delora | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844:
'[Samuel Lover] is a very powerful writer of Irish nov... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Lover | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844:
'I [italics]cannot read[end italics] Lever, ... honest... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles James Lever | Harry Lorrequer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844:
'Do you happen to know anything of ... | Richard Hengist Horne | Wiliam Carleton | 'tales' (extracts) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844:
'We will talk of Eugene Sue.
' know the "Mysteri... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | The Mysteries of Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844:
'We will talk of Eugene Sue.
I know the "Mysteri... | Mary Russell Mitford | Eugene Sue | The Mysteries of Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844:
'We will talk of Eugene Sue.
I know the "Mysteri... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | Mathilde, Memoires d'une Jeune Femme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'[italics]Have[end italics] I read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'[italics]Have[end italics] I read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip James Bailey | Additional scene for Festus | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'I suppose by an opinion upon Taylo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Taylor | Philip van Artevelde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844:
'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his char... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844:
'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amuse... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | letter to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844:
'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Burges | criticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Sophocles | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844:
'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sophocles | 'recognised fragments of Sophocles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844:
'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end itali... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | A Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of Norwich | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries a... | Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat') | Sir Aurel Stein | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Sterling | poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Bartholomew Simmons | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844:
'I got your play last night then read it with very great p... | Bryan Waller Procter | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Print: In proof copy |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1844:
'Really, [Paul de Kock] is very bad -- he is very [italic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Paul de Kock | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, ?12 April 1844:
'I have just finished the second volume [of A New Spirit of t... | Thomas Westwood | Richard Hengist Horne | A New Spirit of the Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, ... | Robert Browning | Alfred Domett | letter to Robert Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Br... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi ... | Joseph Arnould | John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi ... | Joseph Arnould | John Webster | The White Devil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sara Coleridge to John Kenyon, 1844:
'I return with thanks the Poems of Miss Barrett, which I now always mention in... | Sara Coleridge | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844:
'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the... | Leigh Hunt | Richard Hengist Horne | A New Spirit of the Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844:
'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]... | Elizabeth Barrett | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | The Dream, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 July 1844:
'I read Tennyson with deep & high delight, yet with the mourn... | Harriet Martineau | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844:
'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [.... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Catherine Gore | Agathonia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844:
'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Memorials of Mrs Hemans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844:
'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Laman Blanchard | Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems
(1844):
'Your "Legend... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Russell Lowell | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844:
'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely lit... | Lizzie Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844:
'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved ou... | Thomas Westwood and family | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844:
'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved ou... | Thomas Westwood | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844:
'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Catherine Smith Pyer | Wild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Objects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844:
'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844:
'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Vieille Fille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 September 1844:
'You have been in my mind, & your vols -- or one at a ti... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844:
'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet s... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby: or, The New Generation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 October 1844:
'I thought I had read only the [italics]third[end itali... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | Le Juif Errant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844:
'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh R... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Rogers | 'Recent Developments of Puseyism' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844:
'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh R... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | 'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Earl of Chatham' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'Have you any recollection of Adam Blair? I believe th... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Gibson Lockhart | Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any inf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Torpille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any inf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Francois Casimir Delavigne | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read tw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Camille Bodin | Pascaline et Savinie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read tw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Camille Bodin | Stenia et l'abbe Maurice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844:
'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward Moxon | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Heinrich Heine | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much befo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | probably Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Friedrich von Matthisson | Adelaide | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its s... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openin... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phras... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumb... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'th... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'An... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Bob Stevenson | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | Louis XI | Print: Book |
| | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | Marino Faliero | Print: Book |
| | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | Les Enfants d'Edouard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | La Popularite | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | La Fille du Cid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844:
'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Casimir Delavigne | Une Famille au temps de Luther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I have read some of the romances of Madme d'Abrantes ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Madame d'Abrantes | romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'Madme Bodin nee Jenny Bastide is neither very pure no... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jenny Bodin (nee Bastide) | Stenia et l'abbe Maurice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very lit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau | Marianna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good de... | Elizabeth Barrett | Casimir Delavigne | Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good de... | Elizabeth Barrett | Casimir Delavigne | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Les Maitres Mosaistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Les sept cordes de la lyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'Think of the Westminster Review [...] commending me f... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, Poems (1844) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I have heard that Miss Martineau's connections are gr... | Edward Moulton-Barrett | | Reports concerning cure of Harriet Martineau by mesmerism | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844:
'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, ..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leigh Hunt | Imagination and Fancy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844:
'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Eugene Sue | Le Salamandre (including Preface) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844:
'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Honore de Balzac | Une tenebreuse affaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844:
'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "T... | Mary Russell Mitford | Frederika Bremer | The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844:
'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Horace Twiss | The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especial... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Letters vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Mar... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see t... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you. About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to y... | Arnold Bennett | John Squire | The Three Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have writt... | Arnold Bennett | Laurent Tailhade | Poemes aristophanesques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | The Way of all Flesh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | The Devil's Garden | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have been looking for the wrong things in "The Passionate Friends", & failing to see the right things.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like "The Dark Flower" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of hi... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Dark Flower | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont... | Arnold Bennett | C.L. Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont... | Arnold Bennett | J.H. Rosny | Dans les rues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: "Almost without exception during the last fortnight... | Arnold Bennett | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a deta... | Arnold Bennett | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sund... | Arnold Bennett | Abel Hermant | Confessions d'un homme d'aujourdhui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | The Genius | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Friedrich von Matthison | Adelaide | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the Ne... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Paul | Epistle to the Philippians, I.3 | Print: wristlet |
| 1850-1899 | 'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: gravestone |
| 1850-1899 | 'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Gordon Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Notes on the Movements of Young Children. | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not hav... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Dick Lauder | Scottish Rivers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Charles Rollin | The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Cruthers and Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but him... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | William Tell | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Gozzi Carlo | Turnadot, Princess of China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Stella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Clavigo, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Gottfried Gruber | Christop Martin Wieland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I a... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different par... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still ea... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Byron | The Age Of Bronze | Print: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I prop... | Thomas Carlyle | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Germaine de Stael | Life of Necker [Jacques?] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingt... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Karl August Musaeus | Volksmahrchen der Deutschen | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Anon | Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selk... | Thomas Carlyle | | [newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have publ... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Irving | For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules
For those who like to fare better than they now do,
and a... | Mary Bacon | unknown | Twelve True Old Golden Rules | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly
Martyrd To be seen at
[followed by a gap. It continues]... | Mary Bacon | unknown | unknown | Print: Advertisement |
| 1700-1799 | A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747... | Mary Bacon | Hannah Glasse | First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | West Indian Islands
Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to
___... | Mary Bacon | unknown | [Almanac] | Print: Unknown, set out in a table |
| 1700-1799 | [Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger:
?Mars is situated next above the Earth his
course being betwee... | Mary Bacon | unknown | [almanac] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may remember that I used to desire to outlive you: I have changed my cue: I should be left to speak in the words ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Emery Tylney | (in) Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing an... | Charles Grove | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly enterta... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister!
O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end un... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Frances Burney | Camilla; or, a Picture of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | [Miss] Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | [Miss] Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Robert Southey | Thalaba the Destroyer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Joseph Cooper Walker | Historical and critical essay on the revival of the drama in Italy, An | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Robert Southey | Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Henry Fielding | History of Tom Jones, a foundling, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | L'Olimpiade | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Demofoonte | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Giuseppe riconosciuto | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Gioas re de Giuda | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | La Clemenza di Tito | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Catone in Utica | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Attilio Regolo | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Ciro riconosciuto | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Zenobia | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | | Il balliano; ovvero Il vero amore ne'cimenti e piu forte | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Chiari | La bella Pellegrina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Rinaldo di Capua | La zingara | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Scipione Maffei | La Merope | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat gree... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark sta... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Observations and Reflections made in the course of a journey through FRance, Italy and Germany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised... | Anna Wilbraham | Marie "Sophie" Cottin | Elisabeth, ou les Exiles de Siberie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took u... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Christmas Stories (2, unnamed) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely be... | Sarah Harriet Burney | [Madame] de Genlis | Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Burney | The exposition of the Creed, by J. Pearson... abridged for the use of young persons | Print: Book, printed book not yet published |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary of the English Language, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | John Locke | Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Richard Westall | Day in Spring, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been with a nice little party of College friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The story of Julia and the daisies is beautiful - I read it to MF, (my father) and he liked it much' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charlotte Barrett | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'As I chose that my recent course of extravagance should die a melodious death [...] the last indulgence I gave it was... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | [unknown] | Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | [unknown] | Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a w... | Joanne Jardine | Mary Brunton | Self-control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a w... | Esther Burney | Mary Brunton | Self-control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Self Countrol & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death. but I... | Charlotte Barrett | Mary Brunton | Self-control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie, marquise de Sevigne | [letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere Railway' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to Mr Wordsworth's Late Sonnet' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'I used to read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic], (the "Rights... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'I observe an advertisement of [Charles Cowden Clarke'... | Elizabeth Barrett | | advertisement for Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'[Frederic Soulie] was one of the first of the new Fre... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mad... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain powe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le dernier Chouan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain powe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | David Sechard, volume 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844:
'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Di... | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & sti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Confession generale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844:
'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accompl... | Mrs Marston | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, bu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | "On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places" | Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | ?John Knox and his Relations with Women?? | Print: Proof copy. |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | Included "Miss Griffin"? | Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper". |
| 1800-1849 | 'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a t... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings' | Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a ta... | Jack Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings' | Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Francis Quarles | Emblems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | George Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Robert Browning | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28
September 1846 issu... | Henry Fothergill Chorley | | notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 21 November 1846:
'We have seen your professor once since you ... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Marchese Massimo Tapparelli D'Azeglio | Niccolo de' Lapi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 7 January 1847:
'If it were not for the Bible & Shakespear... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Siecle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Cornelius Mathews, mid-January 1847:
'We live here in the most secluded manner, esche... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Giorgio Vasari | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to James and Julia Martin, 1 February 1847:
'We are reading (much at the latest) Custine... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Adolphe Marquis de Custine | La Russie en 1839 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 4 February 1847:
'By the grace of M. Ferucci, we have Vasari f... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Giorgio Vasari | Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'I see by the "Siecle" that Balzac's works are... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Advertisement for edition of Honore de Balzac, Comedie Humaine | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new roman... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Frederic Soulie | Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new roman... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Frederic Soulie | Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read... | Robert Browning | Honore de Balzac | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Stendhal | Le Rouge et le noir | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 31 March 1847:
'Thank you for the dear welcome letters [..... | Robert Browning | Hugh Stuart Boyd | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847:
'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & st... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Italian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847:
'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & st... | Elizabeth Wilson | | Italian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 26 July 1847:
'We passed the time [at the monastery at Vallombrosa] ... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | unknown | Life of St Giovanni Gualberto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, c.20 September 1847:
'French books I get at [in Florence], but ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | Martin (vol I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alphonse Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Queen Victoria and Royal Household | Alphonse Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert | Dix Ans a la cour du roi Louis-Philippe et souvenirs du temps de l'Empire et de la Restauration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Leon Gozlan | La Queue du chien d'Alcibiade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Frederic Soulie | Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I k... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas | Les Deux Diane | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas | Memoires d'un Medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet | Le Batard de Mauleon | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | J. Heneage Jesse | Literary and Historical Memorials of London | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles Saint John | Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, bec... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baudelaire | Petits poemes en prose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847:
'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, mid-December 1847:
'We are going through some of old Sacchetti... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Franco di Benci Sacchetti | Trecento novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, mid-December 1847:
'We are going through some of old Sacchetti... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Savonarola | Poesie di Ieronimo Savonarola illustrate e pubblicate per cura di Andin de Rians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847:
'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writer... | Joseph Arnould | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Characteristics of the Present Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847:
'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writer... | Joseph Arnould | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | The Nature and Vocation of the Scholar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847:
'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writer... | Joseph Arnould | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | The Destination of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846:
'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this mornin... | John Forster | | Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847:
'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847:
'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Dramatic Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847:
'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [fol... | Eliazbeth Barrett Browning | Charles de Bernard | Le Gentilhomme campagnard | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847:
'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [fol... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas | Le Speronare | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Virgil | The Aeneid, Books III and probably V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case yo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the ... | George Warrington Steevens | unknown | unknown [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, & ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Mitford | History of Greece, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the little book, "Cottage Dialogues", by Mrs Leadbetter? Edgeworths notes are lively and [nationally] c... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Mary Leadbetter | Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Louis-Pierre Anquetil | Louis XIV, sa cour et le Regent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d... | Sarah Harriet Burney | [unknown] | [review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d... | Sarah Harriet Burney | [unknown] | [review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparative... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Francois de la Rochefoucauld | Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Robert South | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jean-Jacques Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not forme... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave abo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde d... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde d... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein | Zulma, et trois nouvelles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave abo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Catherine Anne Dorset | Peacock "at home", The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end und... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Mary Brunton | Self Control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for the loan of "Emma", which, even amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & af... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel... | Charlotte Barrett | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Scott | Visit to Paris in 1814, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Scott | Paris revisited in 1815 by way of Brussels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Alicia Tindal Palmer | Authentic Memoirs of the Life of John Sobieski | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pierre-Simon Pallas | Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in 1793 and 1794 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | The Reign of Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Transcription]
'Das Herz ist mir bedruckt und sehnlich
Gedenke ich der alten Zeit;
Die Welt war damals noch so w... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Heinrich Heine | Die Heimkehr. XXXIX Buch der Lieder | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Hallam | Constitutional History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Morley's second article on Education today' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Morley | The Struggle for National Education | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with m... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Richard Baxter | Baxteriana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with m... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Richard Baxter | Of Coversing [sic] with God in Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusin... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Catherine Hutton | Miser Married, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Accoun... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John McLeod | Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship the Alceste to the Yellow Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Accoun... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Henry Ellis | Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Hulses have been reading Mrs Delany's Letters, & never were so interested, they say, nor even [underlined] affect... | General Sir Samuel Hulse and his wife | Mary Delany | Letters from Mrs Delany... to Mrs frances Hamilton, from the year 1779, to the year 1788 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Monastery, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Abbot, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Giovanni Baptista Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anna Maria Porter | Village of Mariendorpt, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel p... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel p... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Pirate, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur | Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendant l'annee 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Samuel Pepys | Memoirs of Samuel Pepys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Bayley | History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, the | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Russell | Tour in Germany, and some of the southern provinces of the Austrian Empire, in... 1820, 1821, 1822 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!' | Sarah Harriet Burney | Stephanie Felicite Brulart, comtesse de Genlis | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many ye... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Horatio Smith | Tor Hill | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | James Fenimore Cooper | Spy, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | James Fenimore Cooper | Last of the Mohicans, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have bought a book lately full of general information, & written in a good spirit - that is containing a happy mixt... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Mason Good | Book of Nature, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page t... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon Buonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page t... | Sarah Harriet Burney | | [Reviews in the Quarterly Review of Bishop Heber's Journal] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like your Capt. Franklin mainly - and his manly & respectful commendation of my poor dear James, is charming. - I a... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Franklin | Narrative of a Second expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1825, 1826 and 1827 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & so... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Giovanni Giraud | Commedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & so... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Alberto Nota | Commedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic perfor... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Giovanni Battista Niccolini | Antonio Foscarini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I really wonder at, and am sorry that our tastes differ so much that you do not like Pignotti, though I like him so v... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Lorenzo Pignotti | Storia della Toscana sino al principato | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Lord Campbell | Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Flaubert | La Tentation de Saint Antoine. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I cou... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Wodrow | Analecta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michael Bruce | Ode to the Cuckoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905:
'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have writt... | Virginia Stephen | | eighteenth-century texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing,
as was her habit du... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Savage Landor | Pericles and Aspasia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short
narratives, all apparentl... | Madge Vaughan | Virginia Stephen | short stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | Ernest Renan | Cahiers de Jeunesse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | Christina Rossetti | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906:
'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is ... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907:
'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm... | Virginia Stephen | Henry James | The American Scene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908:
'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling t... | Virginia Stephen | G. E. Moore | Principia Ethica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | | 'new novels' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Leonard Woolf | Arnold Bennett | An Old Wives Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my retu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Theophile Gautier | Le Capitaine Fracasse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Theophile Gautier | Emaux et Camees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor) | The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913:
'[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ... | Virginia Woolf | George Meredith | letters | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant
form", but Virginia... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | Art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Insulted and Injured | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Merrick | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | | classical Greek literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | complete works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919:
'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu... | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Women in Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922:
'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922:
'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too.... | Leonard Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922:
'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | The Judge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Rimbaud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925:
'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque... | Gwen Raverat | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Unknown, In proof copy |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926:
'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of E... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Raleigh | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Gerald Brenan, 3 October 1926:
'Ralph said he had read enough of your novel [A Holiday by the Sea... | Ralph Partridge | Gerald Brenan | A Holiday by the Sea | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927:
'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Knole and the Sackvilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929:
'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new r... | Virginia Woolf | Ronald Firbank | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929:
'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree ... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | Harriet Hume | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930:
'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a boo... | Hugh Walpole | Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'.
... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931:
'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them... | Virginia Woolf | Princess Daisy of Pless | From My Private Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931:
'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932:
'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I r... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Bowen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Axel Munthe | The Story of San Michele | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | Tobit Transplanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas
1932. The first words of the ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate h... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5. | Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933:
'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- ... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | short story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933:
'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem... | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell | letter | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934:
'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Wel... | Virginia Woolf | | report of death of Sir George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [... | Virginia Woolf | Edith Wharton | A Backward Glance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934:
'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when the... | Stephen Spender | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936:
'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's
affair with the a... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Wright | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes
Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929... | Virginia Woolf | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | Sido | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936:
'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936:
'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is try... | Leonard Woolf | Bertrand Russell | Which Way to Peace? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937:
'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Memoires (vol 5) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Patrice de MacMahon | unknown | Print: Poster |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | Chateaubriand et son groupe litteraire sous l'Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Hugh Clough | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Maria Edgeworth | Moral Tales for Young People | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexander Buchan | Handy Book of Meteorology [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much interested by Pignotti's history, which [underlined] though I bought [end underlining], I am reading, and h... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Lorenzo Pignotti | Storia della Toscana sino al principato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but the... | Sarah Harriet Burney | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Joseph-Francois Michaud | Histoire des Croisades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Caio Gracco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like - I admire the Italian translation of the Gospels & Psalms, which are what I have hitherto read. If the Prophe... | Sarah Harriet Burney | | [Gospels and Psalms] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher". It is a posthum... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Humphry Davy | Consolations in Travel, or the Last days of a Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled "Tablettes Romaines", and is full o... | Sarah Harriet Burney | J.H., Count de Santo Domingo | Tablettes romaines; contenant des faits, des anecdotes et des observations sure les moeurs, les usages, les ceremonies, le gouvernement de Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Trelawney's Adventures of a Younger Brother. It is a book that excites whilst reading, and leave... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Edward John Trelawney | Adventures of a Younger Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke aft... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | works on the Reformation | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936:
'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Scotsman/Edinburgh Courant | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Edinburgh Courant | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938:
'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] seco... | Philip Morrell | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938:
'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] seco... | Philip Morrell | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938:
'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo... | Virginia Woolf | Bernard Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938:
'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight,... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Frederick Cavendish | The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938:
'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summe... | John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes | article on the Munich Crisis | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939:
'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940:
'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma... | Virginia Woolf | Shena, Lady Simon | paper on women and war | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | study on Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940:
'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridg... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Virginia Woolf | Benedict Nicolson | letter to Virginia Woolf | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Benedict Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [Japanese picture books] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Francois le Champi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you... | Sarah Harriet Burney | James Justinian Morier | Zohrab the Hostage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and her friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Louis-Adolphe Thiers | Histoire de la Revolution Francaise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Carlo Botta | Storia d'Italia, continuata da quella del Guicciardini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Andre Morellet | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Baron E.L. de la Mothe - Houdancourt | Memoires de Madame la comtesse de Barri | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Robertson | History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [History plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Anna Grosvenor | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Seducers in Ecuador | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lyi... | Oscar Wilde | Algernon Charles Swinburne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the k... | Oscar Wilde | William Hurrell Mallock | The New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man da... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas ? Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Carlo Botta | Storia d'Italia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Ludovico Ariosto | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Robertson | History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking per... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Alexander Keith | Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, derived from the literal fulfilment of prophecy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking per... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies, which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous tho... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters wit... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Custo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Edward William Lane | Account of the manners and customs of the Modern Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Custo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Gardner Wilkinson | Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | ?Reed by me N. Hughes 1595 ? noember?
| N. Hughes | John Davis | The World's Hydrographical Description | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Dickens | Sketches by 'Boz' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Dickens | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Benson Earle Hill | Recollections of an Artillery Officer including scenes and adventures in Ireland, America, Flanders and France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Dickens | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne Mathews | Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M... | Sarah Harriet Burney | George Crabbe | Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Thomas Campbell | Life of Mrs Siddons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the Journal & letters of my dear Sister? & Charlotte Barrett's pretty Introduction. I earnestly hope th... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Frances (Burney) d'Arblay | Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Am charmed to find "The Diary" is approved by the General. The third vol: I think must be universally interesting - t... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Frances (Burney) d'Arblay | Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You want to know what I think of the "Diary". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Frances (Burney) d'Arblay | Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Inheritance" is excellent, & perhaps, Miss Ferrier's best - at least, it has left the best taste in my mouth: bu... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Susan Ferrier | Inheritance, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I l... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" in the "Edinburgh Review"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Anne, Lady Vavasour | My Last Tour and First Work; or, a Visit to the Baths of Wildbad and Rippoldsau | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Frederick Shoberl | Frederick the Great, His Court and Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Frederick Shoberl | Frederick the Great, His Court and Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp... | Sarah Harriet Burney | W.B. Stevenson | Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Years' Residence in South America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Barrow | Life of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fleet, and General of Marines | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown "Tale" | Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329. |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'. | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fanny Kemble | 'Life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith.
The classics make the t... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Murray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty
& bright -- without a si... | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen | critical work on Pope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15
[...] He read Janet "The... | Leonard Woolf | Leonard Woolf | 'The Three Jews' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight
on until bedtime, ... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 13 February 1915: 'After luncheon [...] I went to a concert at the Queen's Hall [...] I
was annoyed by a yo... | 'young man and woman' | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, &
the only tolerable history... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open
Dante or think of him wit... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine
into R.T. more closely [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made
me reflect that I haven'... | Ottoline Morrell | Ottoline Morrell | journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Leonard Woolf | Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude Tuckwell | Life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon
Square [...] I sat alone for... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'book on Children & Sex' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as
military hospital] [...] a ... | anon | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up
tobacco, but now argues t... | Gerald Shove | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Ben Jonson | masques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Captain Ronald A. Hopwood | 'The Old Way' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.' | Oscar Wilde | John Pentland Mahaffy | Rambles and Studies in Greece | Manuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.' | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Studies of the Greek Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.' | Richard Reginald Harding | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows... | Oscar Wilde | | Nineteenth Century | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and... | Oscar Wilde | Euripides | Hercules Furens | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and... | Oscar Wilde | Euripides | Phoenissae | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favou... | Oscar Wilde | Matthew Arnold | Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-ch... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a... | Virginia Woolf | George Crabbe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.' | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?]
The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baudelaire | Petits Poemes en Prose | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015) | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours". |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | Desiderata | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was ... | Benedict Nicolson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate ... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | Sodom et Gonorrhe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;)... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publ... | Vita Sackville-West | Louis de Robert | Comment debuta Marcel Proust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'. | Virginia Woolf | Ezra Pound | Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea... | Lytton Strachey | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional p... | Desmond MacCarthy | William Makepeace Thackeray | Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | John, Viscount Morley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 4 March 1918: 'I found a silent group at the [1917] Club, all men, & unknown to me, with the
exception of Alix who s... | Alix Sargant-Florence | Bertrand Russell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred
upon an afternoon readi... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll h... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation
into the rest of th... | Roger Fry | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 18 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation
into the rest of th... | Roger Fry | Aristophanes | Lysistrata | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 1 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to
reading Joyce's ms. aloud, &... | Desmond MacCarthy | James Joyce | Ulysses | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 6 June 1918: 'I've seen Alix [...] She is able to conceive the possibility of one day finding
some book to read. She... | Alix Sargant-Florence | Bertrand Russell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2
days ago at Lane End [...]... | Virginia Woolf | | notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's
sister-in-law] was announced.' | Virginia Woolf | George Otto Trevelyan | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian
poetry, & has read L... | John Waller Hills | Lytton Strachey | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas de Quincey | Impassioned Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words betw... | Philip Morrell | John Middleton Murry | Review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we
spoke some million words be... | Philip Morrell | Philip Morell | Letter to John Middleton Murry regarding his review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we
spoke some million words be... | Philip Morrell | Siegfried Sassoon | Letter to Philip Morrell regarding his defence of his work against John Middleton Murry's review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetic... | Virginia Woolf | William Michael Rossetti | Memoir of Christina Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night,
with [...] the English r... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | 'Bliss' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can
imagine the effect ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in th... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when y... | Vita Sackville-West | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is not this verse pretty?
Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love,
For which my soul did pine --
A green isle i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edgar Allan Poe | To One in Paradise (1834) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | William Robertson | Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | unknown | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windo... | Thomas Carlyle | | Examiner (Newspaper Chat section) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - sh... | Thomas Carlyle | | The Scotman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the commo... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's concept... | Vita Sackville-West | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except ... | Vita Sackville-West | Andre Gide | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoo... | Vita Sackville-West | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' What else? Yes, I have read Cowper:
"The stable yields a stercoraceous heap...."
It bears an unpleasant resemblan... | Vita Sackville-West | William Cowper | The Task, Part III (The Garden) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edgar Allan Poe | King Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? ... | Hugh Walpole | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsumm... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.' | Vita Sackville-West | Helen Waddell | The Wandering Scholars | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | The Sun and the Fish | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the... | Vita Sackville-West | William Butler Yeats | Leda and the Swan | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have h... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Review of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of England. | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, pas... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Sydney Waterlow | Sydney Waterlow | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Clive Bell | Clive Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Vanessa Bell | Vanessa Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Duncan Grant | Duncan Grant | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Molly MacCarthy | Molly MacCarthy | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Duncan Grant | Duncan Grant | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Roger Fry | Roger Fry | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.' | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Trachiniae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | 'reminiscences' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Burke | 'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | [journalism] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de La Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Gwendolyn Cecil | The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Cecil Torr | Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of Tennyson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of [?Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Crotchet Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Love Peacock | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye... | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Byron's Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterp... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de la Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be ab... | Margaret A. Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was m... | Thomas Carlyle | | Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Schiller | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Appre... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Various unspecified books concerning John Knox. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-ch... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This is E. A. Poe:
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edgar Allan Poe | To my Mother. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.' | James Carlyle | Thomas Day | The History of Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that ... | Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execut... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I sho... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas De Quincey | Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown (trad) | Jack The Giant Killer | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mary Martha Sherwood | The Wishing Cap | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Blue Beard | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sull... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme | unknown poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.' | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.' | Vita Sackville-West | J.C. Squire | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I tried to read Read on poetry - Words words words, - and all polysyllabic. That isn't poetry; not even the explanat... | Vita Sackville-West | Herbert Read | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photogr... | Harold Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story o... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.' | Vita Sackville-West | Arnold Zweig | The Case of Sergeant Grisha | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible bo... | Harold Nicolson | unknown | [work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | The circulating record of the Cardigan Book Society suggests that this reader read the work, as the "Remarks" section ... | Mrs Miles | | Temple Bar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was th... | Edith Sitwell | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When it was discovered that she liked Swinburne's poetry, Sir George demanded that she forego such sensual verse. If ... | Edith Sitwell | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sitwell said] 'I used to read "The Rape of the Lock" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a ... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ... | Edith Sitwell | Robert Browning | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ... | Edith Sitwell | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Stephane Mallarme | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Paul Verlaine | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Arthur Rimbaud | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Charles Baudelaire | Les fleurs du mal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday af... | Edith Sitwell | Felicia Hemans | 'Casabianca' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I say, has Rebecca West's book come your way? It is unreadable. It is a brew of Meredith, 'Orlando' and Amanda Ross.' | Vita Sackville-West | Rebecca West | Harriet Hume | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest po... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [ms novel] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.' | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of E... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Gosse | Books on the Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ... | Virginia Woolf | Leigh Hunt | The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left... | James Strachey | Jane Harrison | Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion | |
| 1900-1945 | 18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a... | Roger Fry | Julien Benda | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary to... | Lytton Strachey | anon | advertisement/announcement on racing | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beaut... | Thomas Stearns Eliot | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Waste Land | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, c... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] ... | Boen Hawkesford | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, Harold and I both like Clifford Kitchin's murder book, and I shall recommend it on Thursday, so tell Leon... | Vita Sackville-West | Clifford Kitchin | Death of my Aunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tell Leonard to read Harold's new book. It is more in his line than yours, being political, but I think you would be... | Vita Sackville-West | Harold Nicolson | Peacemaking | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation,... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Seldes | Review of James Joyce, Ulysses | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior wat... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- suc... | Lytton Strachey | Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) | Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- suc... | Lytton Strachey | Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, eds | English Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman.... | Virginia Woolf | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or The Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman.... | Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family/friends | unknown | [unidentified plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 August 1923: 'We went over to Charleston yesterday [...] Clive was sitting in the drawing room window reading... | Clive Bell | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | unknown | '18th Century prose' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Richard Hakluyt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Scott | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | J. G. Lockhart | Life of Walter Scott | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Edward Gibbon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | unknown | biographical works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Ethel M. Dell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | On the Lake | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On 22 December the Woolfs went to Charleston for Christmas [...] Clive and Vanessa Bell [sister to Virginia Woolf] an... | Vanessa Bell and family | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 1923 diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Beatrice Webb | My Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi... | Gerald Gould | unknown | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi... | Gerald Gould | Anton Chekhov | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk... | Virginia Woolf | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she... | Thomas and Florence Hardy | Aldous Huxley | Two or Three Graces | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how ... | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Collected Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the meantime, let me say that I read you with delight, even though I wanted to exclaim, "Oh, BUT,Virginia..." on 5... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came ba... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Clark | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Country Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Robert Bridges | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Scott | The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'sporting memoirs' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first t... | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | French texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poo... | Virginia Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Elizabeth and Essex | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Viola Meynell | Alice Meynell. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Jenkins | Virginia Water | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Jean Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I ... | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Biirrell | ?Collected Essays, 1880-1920 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | George Puttenham | The Arte of English Poesie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | William Webbe | A Discourse of English Poetrie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Commonplace Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Letter Book, 1573-1580 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which f... | Virginia Stephen | Richard Hakluyt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.' | Virginia Woolf | | 'Lord Chaplin's life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since y... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Dodo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st... | Virginia Woolf | Molly Hamilton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 July 1930: 'Lady L[avery] discussed the air crash [...] I was driving down to the Temple with Vita [Sackv... | Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West | | report of air crash on 21 July | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati... | Virginia Woolf | Rosamund Lehmann | A Note in Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Daniel Defoe | A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Archibald Hamilton Rowan | The Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | James Jeans | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | The Rev. John Skinner | The Journal of a Somerset Rector | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Queen Victoria | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing n... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's p... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade ... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I... | Frank Smythe | Richard Aldington | Death of a Hero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".' | Frank Smythe | James Boswell | A Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines... | Matthew Lewis | Marrie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some verses which I read in the Examiner; I think them very witty, although very abominable'. [What follow... | Matthew Lewis | Charles Lamb | 'The Triumph of the Whale' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'You say, "I wonder what you think of Trotter's Life of Fox"? Now I wonder that, supposing I had only read two paragra... | Matthew Lewis | J.B. Trotter | Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and m... | Matthew Lewis | Mary Wells | Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; of the Theatres- Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket: Including Her Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading pers... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | [verbal sketches of well known people] | Manuscript: MS book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite En... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia | MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | a lady in waiting to Princess Caroline | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | Charlotte Bury | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts' | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | | [papers and correspondence] | Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc. |
| 1800-1849 | 'I asked leave to read to Her Royal Highness, and I began 'Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance'.' | Charlotte Bury | C.J. Dorat | Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was shown today some verses by an accomplished man, which made me wish to be a free agent, and to visit the scenes ... | Charlotte Bury | Walter Arthur Keppel Craven | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am alr... | Charlotte Bury | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must ... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the *****... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Alexander Peden | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the *****... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Donald Cargill | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the *****... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | | Song of Solomon | Manuscript: Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky |
| 1900-1945 | 'We were shocked and saddened to read in the newspapers of Lieutenant-Colonel H.T.Morshead's tragic death in Burma. T... | Frank Smythe (team leader) and other (unspecified) members of 1931 Kamet Expedition | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Anna Seward | Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Sydney Owenson | Missionary, The: An Indian Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Walter Scott | Vision of Don Roderick , The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | John Ford | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | John Ford | Broken Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Nathaniel Lee | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | James Somerville Somerville | Memorie of the Somervilles being a history of the baronial House of Somerville | Manuscript: MS book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The same afternoon we were received with much pomp and ceremony by [His Holiness] the Rawal [of the pilgrim village o... | Frank Smythe | His Holiness the Rawal of Badrinath | [address to mountaineers] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who ... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair auth... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | Anna Maria Porter | Don Sebastian Or The House Of Braganza | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.' | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | Heritage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fin... | Lord Curzon | Vita Sackville-West | Grey Wethers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before leaving Kampa we visited Dr Kellas's grave.[...]Then Shebby, the oldest member of the Expedition, read Psalm 1... | E.(Edward) O.(Oliver) Shebbeare | | Psalm 121 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the pos... | (Charles) Raymond Greene | Edward Felix Norton | despatch | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to R... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Soulary | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you m... | Sidney Colvin | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review? |
| 1900-1945 | ' Before starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson... | Hugh Ruttledge | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it fall... | Frank Smythe | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers and weekly magazines | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never se... | Janet Case | T. S. Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thoua... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lov... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Man Who Died | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Hugh Walpole | Judith Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the l... | Vanessa Bell | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Extract of letter to Virginia Woolf from E. M. Forster, copied by Woolf in diary entry of 16 November 1931:
'"I ex... | E. M. Forster | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,... | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Science of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the g... | Leonard Woolf | unknown | Greek grammar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is bray... | Leonard Woolf | Ethel Smyth | A Three-Legged Tour in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | Max Eastman | The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock... | Virginia Woolf | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large lea... | Virginia Woolf | Naomi Mitchison | Review of W. H. Auden, The Orators | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Princess Charlotte | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | Petits Romans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books' | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frances Burney, Madame d'Arblay | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I do not consider at all", observed Madame de C[-], "the author of a book, but only the work itself abstractedly, an... | Madame de [C-] | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madame de C[-], who appears to me to be a clever and deep-thinking person, admired the whole of it without reserve, a... | Madame de [C-] | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madame de C[-] praised Miss Porter's "Scottish Chiefs", and said, it quite [italics] monted [end italics] her imagina... | Madame de [C-] | Jane Porter | Scottish Chiefs, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Madame de Stael sur les Passions. What a wonderful mind is hers! what an insight she has into the recesses of hu... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein | Treatise on the Influence of the Passions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madame de Stael's "Essai sur les fictions" delights me particularly: for every word in it is a beautiful echo of my o... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein | Essai sur les fictions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of... | Charlotte Bury | Mary Berry | [historical work] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a novel all the evening, but yet his very presence is horridly degrading' | Charlotte Bury | | [a novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in Stafford's library the wonderful news of the allies entering into Paris'. | Charlotte Bury | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Lord D-] pulled out of his pocket some very abominable verses, which he called "capital" and desired me to read. He ... | Charlotte Bury | | verses | Manuscript: MS verses |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have myself read his [Kant's] works, and I think nothing can be more lucid than his style, or more easy to be under... | Charlotte Bury | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the... | Charlotte Bury | Galileo Galilei | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the... | Charlotte Bury | Raphael | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Took notes from Miss Plumtre. Finished the first volume' | Charlotte Bury | Miss Plumtre or Plumptre | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[during an encounter with a Madame de Villegard who showed her 'curious old books on the black art'] I read some of t... | Charlotte Bury | | 'curious books on the black arts' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever e... | Charlotte Bury | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note dow... | Charlotte Bury | Charlotte Bury | Diary | Manuscript: MS journal |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find ... | Charlotte Bury | | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Metastasio [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 July 1932: 'Alice Ritchie ringing me up [...] said "One thing I want to say. Please dont go so far away in... | Alice Ritchie | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Alexis de Tocqueville | Souvenirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Kilbracken | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | Pen Portraits and Reviews | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Douglas Ainslie | Adventures Social and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | 'novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and F... | Members of Shaksgam Expedition | E.M. Forster | A Passage to India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Letters of D. H. Lawrence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will co... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Wright | The Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.' | Virginia Woolf | R. Barry O'Brien | The Life of Charles Stuart Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Sacred Fount | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I slept most of the morning, and in the afternoon I lay in the sun and read copies of the Calcutta "Statesman " four ... | Eric Shipton | | Calcutta Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Creevey | The Creevey Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[... | Leonard Woolf | J. G. Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | Leopardi | [poem] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Geor... | Roger Fry | unknown | 'French poetry' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But instead of learning to sail, I read Edward Whymper's "Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator". The author i... | Eric Shipton | Edward Whymper | Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt sett... | Virginia Woolf | Florence Hardy | Life of Thomas Hardy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Cust Faber | A Character Study of the Oxford Movement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'. | Virginia Woolf | Turgenev | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by C... | Virginia Woolf | Arsene Houssaye | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big m... | Eric Shipton | George D. Abraham | Swiss Mountain Climbs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout... | Virginia Woolf | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Margot Oxford | More Memories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as... | Virginia Woolf | Marguerite Steen | Hugh Walpole: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew... | Eric Shipton | | Hugo's Urdu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed litt... | Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence | Winifred Holtby | study of Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 300 yards above Camp III we found the body of Maurice Wilson, who had atempted to climb Mount Everest alone the... | Expedition members | Maurice Wilson | [diary] | Manuscript: Codex, Diary |
| 1800-1849 | 'I employed myself in the evening, reading Lord John Russell's life of his ancestor Lord William Russell. The preface ... | Charlotte Bury | Lord John Russell | Life of William Lord Russell, with Some Account of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy. There is originality and genius in all she writes'. | Charlotte Bury | Sydney, Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a most amiable Archbishop, who is very anxious for my conversion to the "[italics] true [end italics] faith"... | Charlotte Bury | | [Catholic books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Goethe's life. With what enthusiasm he made his journey into Italy. It is pleasant to read or hear of an... | Charlotte Bury | | [life of Goethe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Charlotte Bury | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Miss [-] | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Miss [-] | John Gibson Lockhart | Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Miss [-] | John Gibson Lockhart | Valerius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. it is a very diverting book. The discovery that I make ... | Charlotte Bury | Nathaniel William Wraxall | Memoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Valois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After my visit to Mrs [-], I returned home, and read Miss Seward's Letters. I think them very entertaining, though th... | Charlotte Bury | Anna Seward | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Grant | Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | Francis Jeffrey | [ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic...' by Anne Grant] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | Francis Jeffrey | [ review of new edition of Ford's plays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | John Ford | Broken Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | John Ford | Lover's Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I happened by chance when in this mood [melancholy], to open "The Lady of the Lake", and I thought, as I read it, so ... | Charlotte Bury | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr North has been reading Lady Morgan's "O'Donnel", and is delighted with it. He says he never read a book that amuse... | Mr North | Sydney, Lady Morgan | O'Donnel: A National Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Jonathan Swift | [poems to Stella] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | James Beattie | 'Minstrel, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''We talked a great deal of our poor friend, Lady E[-], and lady [-] said she thought the portrait of Imogen, in the N... | Lady [-] | Sydney Owensen | Novice of St Dominic, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Sir [-]] observed that he was reperusing Miss Seward's Letters, and said, what an odd fancy it was to bequeath them ... | Sir [-] | Anna Seward | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over aga... | | Horace Walpole | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over aga... | | Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand | Letters of the Marquise du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over aga... | | Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand | [Letters to Voltaire] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I have been reperusing Madame de Stael's De l'Allemagne. I cannot very we... | | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Sta?l-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I visited Lady [-], who was engaged in reading Miss F[errier]'s new novel. I told her, I heard she did not acknowledg... | Lady [-] | Susan Ferrier | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"At that time [ca 1809]", continued Lady [-], "all the world was engaged in reading Ida of Athens. I think it was lik... | Lady [-] | Sydney Owenson | Woman, or Ida of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ... | Eric Shipton | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ... | Peter R. Oliver | unknown | Seventeenth Century Verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ... | Charles B.M. Warren | Michel Eyquem (de) Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Charles B.M. Warren | unknown | [Physiology textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | W.H.(Bill) Tilman | Miguel (de) Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Peter Lloyd | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Noel Odell | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown verses] | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook. |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Mademoiselle Merquem | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | [Elizabethan lyrics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Proust, and dislike his mentality more and more. I get the sense of that flabby, diseased, asthmatic ma... | Vita Sackville-West | Marcel Proust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He sat down on the floor beside me, and helped me to look up "droil". "What's this?" he said, taking up my proofs. ... | Robert Bridges | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'But nobody knew when they (the poems) were meant to come to an end; therefore the applause always came in the wrong p... | Vita Sackville-West | Edith Sitwell | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good... | Harold Nicolson | Bertrand Russell | On Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading t... | Vita Sackville-West | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Kenneth Grahame | Golden Age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Ivan Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ... | John Buchan | Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ... | John Buchan | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or ... | | Robert Southey | Roderick: The Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on... | | Humphry Davy | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have be... | | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have be... | | Richard Cumberland | Observer, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[The Comtesse] has a [italics] library [end italics] of novels - literally; so that I wonder she has not, by filling ... | Lady [-] | unknown | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and th... | Susan Ferrier | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever... | Susan Ferrier | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I allude to my old friend, and your acquaintance, the Ettrick Shepherd (for I will not mention him by the unpoetical ... | Walter Scott | James Hogg | [ballads] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bury went to see Humphry Davy, hoping to enlist his support in a subscription for James Hogg] 'and the visi... | Charlotte Bury | Humphry Davy | 'To the Glow-Worm' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'The extracts you sent me of "The Thompson" correspondence are charming. I am happy to see that "we" have lost none of... | William Gell | | [letters from Princess Caroline] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was glad to have the enjoyment of reading Schlegel's History of Literature. It is a fine work, built on a sure foun... | Charlotte Bury | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel | [probably] Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent a quiet day at home. Read "The Story of a Life" by Sherer; a powerfully written book with vivid description and... | Charlotte Bury | Joseph Moyle Sherer | The Story of a Life. By the Author of Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy, Recollections of the Peninsula, &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation... | Charlotte Bury | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation... | Charlotte Bury | John Tweddell | Remains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge: Being a selection of his letters... With a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles, etc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Jonathan Swift | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Horace Walpole | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Heloise | [Letters to Abelard] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading many private as well as public documents of his age, I am persuaded that he and lord Melville were the ... | Mr Sharpe | | unknown | Print: Book, probably manuscripts as well |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it wit... | Eric Shipton | unknown | [books of natural history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Among the mail was "The Times" Special Coronation Supplement. The men were vastly intrigued with the pictures.
"Tha... | Frank Smythe | | The Times Special Coronation Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so min... | Charlotte Bury | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had w... | Charlotte Bury | Caroline Lamb | 'Winter Amusements' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over aga... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting live... | Mr Sharpe | | [various MS letters, religious charters and poems] | Manuscript: various |
| 1800-1849 | 'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting live... | Mr Sharpe | | [volumes published by the Bannatyne club] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Letters bring Lady M. W. M[ontagu] into my head, which I now do not confess in public ever to have read, for they are... | Mr Sharpe | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Mademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Les voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bod... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | Homer | Odyssey and Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You bid me tell you what I read; and, in obedience to your commands, I confess myself to be at present under a course... | Miss V[-] | | [books about Roman /ancient history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When my day's task is at an end, I keep my nightly vigils with Young, whose Night Thoughts I do think, next to Milton... | Miss V[-] | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, thou... | Miss V[-] | Robert Morehead | A Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religious Belief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authori... | Miss V[-] | Giovanni Battista Guarino | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ... | Susan Ferrier | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ... | Susan Ferrier | Frances Jacson | Rhoda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was ... | Mrs [-] | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Paul's Letters? Partial as I am to the author, I confess I was disappointed. I believe they are very ju... | Mrs [-] | | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of the excellence of the devotions in the little volume you were so good as to send me, there cannot be two opinions,... | Anne Grant | | [volume of religious meditations] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I feel, dear [-], gratified by the partiality which you express for my writings. You would, more than many others, be... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not ... | Matthew Lewis | Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused whi... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have alread... | James Hogg | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first ... | Francis Younghusband | unknown | unknown | Print: Book, manuscripts also mentioned |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking ... | Francis Younghusband | | Peking Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently movi... | Francis Younghusband | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also gratefully acknowledge receipt of the "Daily Telegraph." The Liberal gov was defeated on the budget vote a day... | Joseph Conrad | | newspaper (Daily Telegraph) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.' | Joseph Conrad | | newspaper (London Evening Standard) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.' | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.' | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines m... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Popes et popadias (published in book form as Les Filles du Pope) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the n... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Joujou | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something.... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the b... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the ... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these page... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of... | Virginia Woolf | | announcement of death of Stella Benson | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chise... | Walter Sickert | Goldoni | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chise... | Walter Sickert | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther... | Virginia Woolf | Andrew Marvell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [B... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Berners | First Childhood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest de Selincourt | Dorothy Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | J. E. Neale | Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 May 1934: 'L. opening the first Times to come our way, said George Duckworth is dead. So he is. And I feel t... | Leonard Woolf | | report of death of George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of th... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Rock. A Pageant Play | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoni... | Thomas Stearns Eliot | George Barker | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson | Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | Preface, Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Pages de Journal, 1929-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Charles de Vigny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | John Cowper Powys | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak | Good Morning and Good Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Bonamy Dobree | Modern Prose Style | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Alice James | Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | Edward Sackville-West | The Sun in Capricorn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of James Boswell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'.
| Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | Acts of the Apostles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s des... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Herbert Spenser | Principles of Biology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up liter... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Anne Isabella Thackeray | The Village on the Cliff. A Novel. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Knox and the Controversy about Female Rule | Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | An Autumn Effect. | Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me.... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me.... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Le Lys Rouge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every singl... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Le Mariage du fils Grandsire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Pierre et Jean | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.' | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | An Imagined World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "FollY" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief,journalistic, but full pf praise! Abo... | Joseph Conrad | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Wonderful Visit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading aga... | Joseph Conrad | George Lewis (Louis) Becke | By Reef and Palm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' I have read "The First Fleet Family"with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of large... | Joseph Conrad | George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey) | A First Fleet Family | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very charac... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Spoils of Poynton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of th... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | [Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I've just finished reading "Lisa of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is a... | Joseph Conrad | W.Someret Maugham | Liza of Lambeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue[of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mr... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P.[presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined ... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) Voynich | The Gadfly | Print: Book |
| | Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ... | John Maynard Keynes | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ... | John Maynard Keynes | George Bernard Shaw | letter to John Maynard Keynes, 11 December 1935 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.' | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'Italian novel' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! The... | Joseph Conrad | Humphry James | Paddy's Woman and Other Storiesries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | John Summerson | John Nash, Architect to King George IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Annie S. Swan | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! T... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bridges | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more ra... | Virginia Woolf | Stephen Spender | The Destructive Element | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Overing Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has ju... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Aaron's Rod | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of [T. E.] Lawrence's death.' | Quentin Bell | anon | report of death of T. E. Lawrence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | The Letters of Katherine Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Stendhal | 'on Rome' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothin... | Virginia Woolf | Ruth Gruber | Virginia Woolf: A Study | |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Emily Hilda Young | Miss Mole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Abbe Dunnet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | Jessie Chambers | D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | John Bailey | John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Stephen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | William Congreve | Love for Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Charles Mallett | Anthony Hope and His Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | John Ford | The Lover's Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Easdale | Middle Age: 1885-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Re... | Ethel Smyth | Virginia Woolf | A Room of One's Own | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the stran... | Edith Sitwell | August Strindberg | The Inferno | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the ou... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | A Man and Some Others | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | The Open Boat | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Prince Hempseed for the first time. I do hope you don't mind my writing to you about it, because I t... | Edith Sitwell | Sydney Schiff | Prince Hempseed | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am not a little proud of the approbation you have been pleased to bestow upon a mountain Bard'. | Robert Surtees | James Hogg | Mountain Bard, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I heard two gentleman [sic] reading with great glee and much laughter several sheets of a parody upon part of it yest... | James Hogg | | [a parody of Scott's 'Marmion'] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | 'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | 'To Henry Erskine, Esq' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read several English reviews of my books at great length which are favourable in the extreme'. | James Hogg | | [reviews of The Mountain Bard and The Shepherd's Guide] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/... | James Hogg | Janet Stuart | 'Ode to Dr Thomas Percy' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'. | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Curse of Kehama, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 ... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Bridal of Triermain, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto... | James Hogg | John Morrison | Hoggiad, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | A Country Dance | Manuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening r... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Shaw | When I was a Child | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Jocelyn | Manuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my w... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Impenitent Thief | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends... | James Hogg | Bernard Barton | 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [itali... | James Hogg | Bernard Barton | 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many of my friends are of the same opinion with you at least with regard to the tales of the Spy. Mr Walr. Scott says... | Walter Scott | James Hogg | [Tales published in the Spy] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb... | James Hogg | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb... | James Hogg | | Scotish Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb... | James Hogg | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the last No of the Scottish Review there is a very long and exquisite review of the [italics] Wake [end italics]. ... | James Hogg | | Scotish Review [sic] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | William Roscoe | [pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe' | Manuscript: presumably in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | [pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe' | Manuscript: presumably in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | Walter Paterson | Legend of Iona, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ... | Arnold Bennett | | United Methodist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sh... | Arnold Bennett | Stuart P. Sherman | [article on Arnold Bennett] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is a... | Arnold Bennett | Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltuikov | The Golovleff Family | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes tha... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Mr Britling Sees It Through | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything ve... | Arnold Bennett | E.H. Anstruther | The Farm Servant | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Pla... | John Buchan | Plato | unknown | Print: Book, scholarly edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its... | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | The Financier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid
Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea... | Arnold Bennett | | 'Literary Notes and News' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid
Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea... | Arnold Bennett | | Westminster Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which s... | Janet Case | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row ... | Virginia Woolf | | Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.' | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Emphie Case | Lucretius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the pape... | Leonard and Virginia Woolf | | newspaper report of US presidential message | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian ... | Adrian Stephen | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
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1900-1945 | Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Festing Jones | Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Greville | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'. | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Hardy | The Trumpet-Major | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | George Borrow | Wild Wales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Harry J. Greenwall | The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 19 January 1936: 'I went up to an elderly stout woman reading the paper at the Times Book Club the other day. I... | Marjorie Strachey | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'. | Virginia Woolf | Peter Quennell | Byron. The Years of Fame | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c... | Virginia Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Colette | Mes Apprentisages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Moliere | Le Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | What Then Must We Do? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yes... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Spring | review of Virginia Woolf, The Years | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many piec... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [juvenile poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] "Hunting of Badlewe" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish ... | James Hogg | J. H. Craig | Hunting of Badlewe, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray have you seen a poem that was published last year entitled "Anster Fair" I am vexed that it has never been notic... | James Hogg | William Tenant | Anster Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti... | James Hogg | William Tenant | Anster Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti... | James Hogg | J.H. Craig | Hunting of Badlewe, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti... | James Hogg | Anne Grant | Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the publi... | James Hogg | | [review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in bo... | James Hogg | | [review in the Scottish Review of JH Craig's The Hunting of Badlewe] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Jocelyn | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Bridal of Triermain, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the Life of Santa Te... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" we... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | [article in Saturday Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admirat... | Joseph Conrad | Israel Zangwill | Premier and the Painter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Notes on the District of Menteith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unriv... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Studies in Brown Humanity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition o... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.' | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Preface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in Morocco | Manuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | [unknown] | [Story of Perseus] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Harrison Cady | Jungle Jinks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | George Macdonald | [probably] Princess and Curdie, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Scarlet Pimpernel, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Edith Nesbit | [probably] Five Children and It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Charles Dickens | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard'... | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pu... | Elizabeth Bowen | [unknown] | [detective stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe... | Elizabeth Bowen | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe... | Elizabeth Bowen | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,... | Arnold Bennett | Anton Chekhov | The Tales of Tchehov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do ... | Arnold Bennett | Patrick MacGill | The Great Push | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and... | James Hogg and John Wilson | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Print: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a... | Francis Jeffrey | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his... | Francis Jeffrey | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his... | James Hogg | Francis Jeffrey | [review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.' | Arnold Bennett | Robert Halifax | He Looked in my Window | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Nocturne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| | 'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem S... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| | 'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very dif... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| | 'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by f... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not go... | Francis Jeffrey | James Hogg | Pilgrims of the Sun, The | Print: Book |
| | 'I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | '"The Lord of the isles" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it... | James Hogg | | Edinburgh Review [review of Scott's 'Lord of the Isles'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | ' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | ' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.' | John Maynard Keynes | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Elle et Lui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ... | Virginia Woolf | Guy Chapman | Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] las... | Desmond MacCarthy | Desmond MacCarthy | lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Poems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must... | James Hogg | Thomas Moore | Irish Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Siege of Corinth, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Parisina' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touch... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in li... | James Hogg | John Wilson | City of the Plague, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers t... | James Hogg | Gillies | [review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excelle... | James Hogg | James Hogg | 'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excelle... | James Hogg | | 'Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr Dinmont' | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My brother and I have read over together the Essay on Sheep their natural history &c which we so often talked about i... | James and William Hogg | William Hogg | [prize essay on sheep, prize awarded by the Highland Society of Scotland] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot tell you how much I think of the Magazine it is so interesting and spirited throughout it is safe' | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem and articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ... | James Hogg | William Laidlaw | 'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some of my friends think that the introduction and moral of the "Frogs" are too highly wrought and polished for the s... | James Hogg | John Aitken | Frogs, The: A Fable | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!' | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to ... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, including the poetic 'Notices' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This last is not near so interesting as the former, there is too much of pompous fine writing in it at least attempts... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite di... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite di... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I find your Mag. a great favourite in Dumfriesshire especially with the ladies. Macculloch had been trying to stir up... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie... | James Hogg | anon | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political article entitled 'The Warder' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received your splendid work the other day; and have placed it in my little library, having only looked over the pla... | James Hogg | Robert Surtees | History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | Charles Howard | Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | | [unidentified sonnet] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | Charles Howard | Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It so happened that you were the very first man in England that testified approbation of my rude genius after the pub... | Robert Surtees | James Hogg | Mountain Bard, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Stendhal [pseud.] | De l'amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".' | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Millon de Montherlant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Guy de Maupassant | 'Yvette' [and other short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Marcel Proust | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | E.M. Forster | Celestial Omnibus, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | Richard Middleton | Ghost Ship, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'. | James Hogg | Thomas McCrie | Life of Andrew Melville, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'. | James Hogg | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian T... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It h... | James Hogg | James Laidlaw | [Letter from America to his son] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one yo... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ... | James Hogg | | [ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jerusalem'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | John Gibson Lockhart | 'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | John Gibson Lockhart | 'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Cameronian Song' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | Thomas Gillespie | [various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1820] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 'Letter to Peter Morris, M.D. On the Sorts and Uses of Literary Praise' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | John Galt | 'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof the Pringle Family. No IV' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to ta... | James Hogg | T. Brown | Art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the "Parish Register" with great attention. It is rather lifeless and wants character and point but I lik... | James Hogg | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think w... | Joseph Conrad | Neil Munro | The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flatte... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Higginson's Dream | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrof... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an ... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Two Magics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first im... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox (Hermann Ford) Ford (Hueffer) | Shifting of the Fire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance.Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approa... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks ever so much for "The Invisible Man". I shall keep him a few more days longer.
Frankly--it is uncommonly fine... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the v... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Crane | The Price of the Harness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home an... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Article in Singapore Free Press | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them lon... | James Hogg | | [traditional tales] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have received the Mag. and like it exceedingly. The best for a good while' | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new wo... | George Boyd | James Hogg | Three Perils of Man, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The trans: of the T.M.["The Time Machine"] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How tr... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg... | James Hogg | David Laing | [review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read... | James Hogg | | [MS volume of Jacbite material] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well sir you have now put the crown on all the injurious abuse that I have suffered from you for these three years an... | James Hogg | | [attack on Hogg's 'Memoir' in the new edition of 'The Mountain Bard' -Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The article which I inclose "The History of Tom M. Fribble" is not mine. It is written by a Mr William Clerk a teache... | James Hogg | William Clerk | 'True, but Stupid History of Tom MacFribble, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ... | James Hogg | John Galt | Provost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you... | James Hogg | David Laing | [review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellan... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'e... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The thing ["A Paheka" ] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | 'A Paheka' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Miss Stein,
Thank you so much for your letter and the wonderful portrait, which followed me through Spain, and... | Edith Sitwell | Gertrude Stein | 'Sitwell, Edith Sitwell': a word portrait | Manuscript: Letter, A 'word portrait' so possibly contained in a letter. |
| 1900-1945 | '.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his... | Edith Sitwell | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '.....I've been ill with heart trouble - why I can't imagine, as it has always been quite strong so Sachie lent me his... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Life of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all sav... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Reginald with great care and with great interest. It is a masterly work upon the whole, particularly in s... | James Hogg | John Gibson Lockhart | Reginald Dalton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This last is indeed a [italics] redeeming Number [end italics] even if the fallings off had been greater Nothing like... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; 'Noctes Ambrosianae. no. IX' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | James Hook | Percy Mallory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | William Maginn | 'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Literary Characters. No XII. To Christopher North, Esq.' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you k... | James Hogg | Eliza Logan | St Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of Gowrie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you k... | James Hogg | | Northern Whig, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as ... | James Hogg | Susan Edmonstone Ferrier | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as ... | James Hogg | Susan Edmonstone Ferrier | Inheritance, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and please... | James Hogg | | [articles concerning Hogg's poem 'Queen Hynde' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not think very highly of last Maga This appears more spirited the former part of the NOCTES is very good my par... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl... | James Hogg | | [article on 'Agriculture' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articl... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work... | James Hogg | R.P. Gillies | German Stories, selected from the works of Hoffmann, De la Motte-0Fouque, Pichler, Kruse, and others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work... | James Hogg | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Elizabeth de Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved your's with the £5 inclosed and also the two Magas the last article of each only I have read and dre... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect... | James Hogg | Thomas Hamilton | Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I perc... | James Hogg | More | 'Hymn to Hesperus' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excelle... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pl... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Family Portraits | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | William Beckford | Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The... | Joseph Conrad | Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) | The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of t... | Mrs Hughes | James Hogg | Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large publ... | John Wilson | James Hogg | 'Cameronian Preacher's Tale, The' | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga' | James Hogg | Thomas De Quincy | [articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marv... | James Hogg | James Hogg | Shepherd's Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and re... | James Hogg | | 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiar... | James Hogg | | Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of the Text, and Containing Historical Details in Relation to the House of Stuart from 1640-1784 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only f... | James Hogg | Henry Scott Ridell | 'Ode to the Harp of Zion' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing n... | James Hogg | Thomas Pringle [ed.] | Friendship's Offering | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is ini... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for in... | James Hogg | Mr Brooks | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | [Hogg is enclosing his 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston'] 'No body ever saw it but Dr Moir (Delta) who read it and w... | David Macbeth Moir | James Hogg | 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ... | James Hogg | | ['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ... | James Hogg | | [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y... | James Hogg | Caroline Bowles Southey | 'La petite Madelaine' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my kno... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | [possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope, and the Devil' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved Maga to night and looked it over but think very poorly of it You need not send any more of them as I ... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who the devil was it who wrote the last article of the Quarterly? He is a lad of some spirit and I must have a half m... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Birrell | Things Past Redress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ... | Philip Morrell | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ... | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'. | Virginia Woolf | Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 May 1937: 'I'm pleased this morning because Lady Rhondda writes that she is "profoundly excited & moved by ... | Theodora Bosanquet | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Philippa Strachey to Virginia Woolf, 30 May 1938: 'I have read [Three Guineas] with rapture -- It is what we have pant... | Philippa Strachey | Virginia Woolf | Three Guineas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Greek verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire singl... | Virginia Woolf | Queenie Leavis | Review of Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Siegfried Sassoon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 November 1938: 'Dinner at Clive [Bell]'s [...] we all talked: about Jews: about Clive's lunch party with ... | Leonard Woolf | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | valedictory editorial article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | Eugene Delacroix | Journal de Eugene Delacroix | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary (17 May 1932) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mont Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a c... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It start... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Edward Marsh | A Number of People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Rochefoucauld | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Adolf Hitler | Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | 'newspaper sellers' | Adolf Hitler | Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Blaise Pascal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Pater | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may ... | Virginia Woolf | Theophrastus | 'Characters' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scop... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivale... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | Group Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Ricketts | Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RA | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Herbert | Letters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and del... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | private letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here is a sort of little standard library kept - Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, & a few foreign books, & we sit an... | Elizabeth and William Gaskell | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Crabbe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural s... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Wiiliam Howitt | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Holland | [Exercise book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wm read his first 2 lectures on Poetry &c aloud which people seemed very much to like & I lay on the sofa & enjoyed m... | William Gaskell | | [lectures on poetry] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on s... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Deserted House, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.'
['all this' refers... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Southey | Doctor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received call... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Hour and the Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out wit... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Today Mr Shaen has been reading a sermon to us'
| Mr Shaen | | [a sermon] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the perso... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Fr... | Mary Holland | Henry Taylor | Notes From Books, in Four Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Fr... | Mary Holland | Arthur Helps | Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have jus... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Ho... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Catherine Crowe | Susan Hopley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, on... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [letter approving 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whol... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Forster | [review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barton'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A M... | Arnold Bennett | Clifford Beer | A Mind That Found Itself | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ... | Virginia Woolf | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | anon | mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Havelock Ellis | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Woolf | A. B. Goldenveizer | Talks with Tolstoi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Stephen | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot... | Virginia Woolf | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | G. K. Chesterton | Thomas Aquinas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Leslie Stephen | essay on Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in ... | Virginia Woolf | | Scrutiny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London... | Virginia Woolf | F. L. Lucas | Studies French and English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France vol.15 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | G. M. Trevelyan | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 'The Leaning Tower' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet mak... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiograph... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart.
'The foot less prompt to ... | Virginia Woolf | Matthew Arnold | Thyrsis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L... | Virginia Woolf | anon | account of the Great Fire of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop... | Virginia Woolf | Desmond MacCarthy | Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 January 1941:
'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in... | Katherine Mansfield | James Joyce | Ulysses | Manuscript: Typescript |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | La Porte Etroite | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had ... | Janet Schaw | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f... | Fanny Rutherfurd | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f... | Fanny Rutherfurd | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[After sighting land believed by captain and crew of Jamaica Packet to be Graciosa, island in the Azores] the next th... | Janet Schaw and other passengers on board Jamaica Packet | Thomas Salmon | A New Geographical and Historical Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Janet Schaw | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Robert Howe | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen a newspaper published by the [Wilmington] committee's order, where the whole story of the battle [of Bunk... | Janet Schaw | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did ... | Janet Schaw | Sir William Chambers | A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Chalmers | Vestiges of the Natural HIstory of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6-[8] January 1845: 'As to Napoleon, if he had walked less in blood, I coul... | Elizabeth Barrett | Las Cases | Memorial de Saint Helene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With so... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Vacation Rambles and Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845:
'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alphonse de Lamartine | La Chute d'un ange | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845:
'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alphonse de Lamartine | Jocelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 10 January 1845:
'I love your verses with all my heart, de... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addr... | John Kenyon | Harriet Martineau | extract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting seance | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845:
'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 January 1845:
'Paul [de Kock] is the writer of farce, .. broad farce... | Elizabeth Barrett | Paul de Kock | Mon Ami Piffard; et Chipolata | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'. | Leslie Stephen | Henry John Newbolt | Drake's Drum | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: P... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre Veron | Le Pantheon de Poche | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Racine | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undou... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Leigh Hunt | The Wishing Cap | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Sam Greg | [remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Hugh Clough | Ambarvalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Espinasse | [prospectus] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [review of 'Margaret, a tale of the Real and the Ideal'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Sylvester Judd | Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfi... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Crawford, Lord Lindsay | Lives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Oenone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sleeping Beauty, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is a... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wro... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Kingsley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily impo... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Geraldine Jewsbury | [unknown review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the p... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sleeping Beauty, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she said to H M, 'What did you really think of "Jane Eyre"?' H M. I thought it a first rate book, whereupon the littl... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sor... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Maggie Bell | [MS. novel] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | W.C. DeVane | [review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Day'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it i... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Ho... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Caroline Emelia Stephen | Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that st... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Denison Maurice | [Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I ge... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own ... | Fanny | Elizabeth Gaskell | Libbie Marsh's Three Eras | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'They used to read to each other when they had written so much. Their father never knew a word about it.' | the Bronte sisters | Bronte | [works by all three sisters] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she re... | Charlotte Bronte | | [reviews of Jane Eyre] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she re... | Patrick Bronte | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Leader, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Whewell | Fraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pendennis] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort". | John Keats | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.-
"The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought,
A... | John Keats | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Catherine Cuthbertson | Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them' | the Scotts | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got v... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | H. Morley | Palissy the Potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have wr... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own... | R. Monckton Milnes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [letter of a 'First Hand'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil bei... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Hood | 'Lady's Dream, The' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my good... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my good... | Lady Kay-Shuttleworth | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pam... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Joseph Kay | Condition of Poor Children in English and German Towns | |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] ve... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) whi... | Charlotte Bronte | | Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) whi... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Perthes | Memoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmu... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Crossley | 'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Mrs Granville | [tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Tupling | Folious appearances. a consideration on our ways of lettering books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, lo... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duchess Eleanor'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one d... | Arthur Bell Nicholls | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'you are not coming up to a certain Mr Hibbert who is now reading Mary Barton for the [italics] fourteenth [end italic... | Mr Hibbert | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I... | Walter Savage Landor | William Gaskell | Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to... | Miss Patterson | Henry Morley | 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Morley | 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says l... | Florence Nightingale | Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anna Jameson | Commonplace Book of Thoughts, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully ju... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Household Words [?] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B... | Charlotte Bronte | Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure beca... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Fairbairn | [remarks on 'North and South'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters to Ellen Nussey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters to W.S. Williams] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot te... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [book on Yorkshire] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: books |
| 1850-1899 | '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Blake | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only suc... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & fin... | Ethel Smyth | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I... | John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes | 'Memoir Club' paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[in... | Virginia Woolf | R. H. Tawney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Francis Steegmuller | Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Jacques Emile Blanche | More Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Last Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | | 'life of Erasmus' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their... | Third class railway passengers | | The Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Gerald Heard | Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 18 January 1845:
'I take shame to myself in the confession, that the first ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Allan Park Paton | poem | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845:
'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845:
'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter... | Mary Russell Mitford | Honore de Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sen... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | article on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet Martineau | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 February 1845:
'Do you think you cd. take courage & attempt the eight... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Les Memoires du diable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845:
'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845:
'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La vieille fille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 23 February 1845: 'Arnould is a happiness to see and know [...] I send, with this [l... | Robert Browning | Joseph Arnould | 'Rabelais and His Times' (review of various works on Rabelais) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'Tell me, was Soulie's "Confession Generale" never fi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Confession generale, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'Do you know the "Napoleon et Marie Louise" of M. de ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Claude Francois de Meneval | Napoleon et Marie Louise: souvenirs historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Lessons for Children, From Two to Three Years Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Early Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845:
'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Femme superieur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delig... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas De Quincey | 'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like... | Mr Seymour | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of inte... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life,... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. W... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesti... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Professor, The | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Fairbairn | [letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | E.B. Eastwick ['ed'] | Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman : and his translations with his fellow-creatures | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Bombay Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Currer Bell [pseud.] | Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John W. Kaye | [possibly] Administration of the East India Company, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Malcolm | [possibly] Government of India, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printe... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Homeward Mail, The | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecat... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis James Child | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[A. Stanley] told me something I liked to hear, & so I shall tell it to you. In Moscow he had seen a good deal of a p... | | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | [articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and an exhibition] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas Carlyle | [article in the 'Atlantic Monthly'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they beg... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Scenes from Clerical Life | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lucknow' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Elder | Biography of Elisha Kent Kane | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Parton | Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Parton | [Life of Barnum] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Pari... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Henry Egerton | Apercu Historique et genealogique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been... | Arnold Bennett | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Duchess of Wrexe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Victory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Chance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Bealby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is th... | Arnold Bennett | Thucydides | [Histories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | Un Coeur Simple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | La Rotisserie de la reine Pédauque | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Louis Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Lytton Strachey | Eminent Victorians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday be... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Real Thing | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Pupil | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''I hold "Ipane". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jea... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Ipane | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you.... | Joseph Conrad | | Mercure de France | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | [having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Hendschel | Telegraph | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wish... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Christian Karl Josias Bunsen | Lyra Germanica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Florence Nightingale | Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British Army | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Mr Aide | Rita | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Amos Barton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and sa... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to y... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | [American cookery books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night' | Margaret Emily Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | G.W. Dasent | Popular Tales from the Norse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Herbert Grey | Three Paths, The | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Helps | Friends in Council | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Daniel Defoe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received the book only three hours ago--and it is only too short! I've read it twice.[...]. Many thanks. I've lived... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | In a Corner of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Chambers | Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henrietta Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | Henrietta Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Brooke | Fool of Quality, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Eric, - oh my dear Harrie I have always been meaning to read it,& never have. You see I was out of the house at Heide... | Marianne and Julia Gaskell | Frederick William Farrer | Eric | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but M... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson'... | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | [review of his own 'Idylls of the King'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas de Quincey | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Complete Guide to the English Lakes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordswo... | William Wordsworth | Dorothy Wordsworth | [MS narrative] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I me... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William White | Travel in Northumberland and the Border | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanl... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Historical Memorials of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Janet's Repentance | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Ellen Raynard | Missing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of The London Poor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia | [n/a] | Macmillan's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia | William Makepeace Thackeray | Virginians, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Scenes from Clerical Life | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read t... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | 'Amos Barton' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Mahoney | [Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Mahoney | [Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lovel the Widower | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Sk... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Dickens | All the Year Round [article] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her lette... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Madame Mohl | [review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Recamier] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I k... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anthony Trollope | Framley Parsonage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. T... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605] | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | Melle Mori | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] an... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth seeks your acquaintance & society [because] he has a novel, - partly read to Mrs Nicholls the... | Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth | Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth | Scarsworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end ital... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | [anthology of laudatory sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they wi... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | London Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [German/English dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence | Thomas, Lord Macaulay | Biographies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence | Henry Hart Milman | History of Latin Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hyst... | Joseph Conrad | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising ... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'.
Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and... | Joseph Conrad | John Buchan | The Far Islands | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully goo... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Desperate Character and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effe... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Father Rouellet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [Manchester newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Margaret Emily Gaskell | John Tyndall | Glaciers of the Alps, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | Wilhelm Meinhold | Amber Witch, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art &... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | Notes of Travel and Study in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Edward Wilberforce | 'Purgatory' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a let... | Charles Bosanquet | [n/a] | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday' | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or Margaret | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Vaughan | Silex Scintillans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Vaughan | They are all gone into the world of light | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [newspaper acconts of events in America in run up to Civil War] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I never saw the book of Mr Laings ('Pastoral Visits') which you speak of; and I should much like to see it, if you ha... | Lady Kay Shuttleworth | Mr Laing | Pastoral Visits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Eliot Norton | [paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as ev... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription... | Joseph Conrad | H.G. Wells | The Plattner Story and Others | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more val... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Hamilton Aide | Carr of Carrlyon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I co... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Harrison | [MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quarterma... | Arnold Bennett | T. S. Eliot | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in w... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Wetmore Story | Cleopatra | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth C. Akers | Two Summers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [American newspaper extracts] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the f... | Arnold Bennett | Spencer Wilkinson | Sunday Times articles | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.' | Arnold Bennett | Dorothy M. Richardson | Backwater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "german Tramp" is not only exc... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | In a German Tramp | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his fa... | Joseph Conrad | William Shakespeare | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish. |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, ... | Joseph Conrad | Victor Hugo | Les Travailleurs de la Mer | Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jules Michelet | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Buta | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Al... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | The Jew and Other Stories | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the ... | Arnold Bennett | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Shops and Houses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | On the Staircase | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the pla... | Arnold Bennett | E.V. Lucas | The Sane Star | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminisce... | Arnold Bennett | | National News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | James T. Fields | "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | "Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | Henry W. Longfellow | "Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Thomas De Quincey | James T. Fields | "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from o... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Pour Noemi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating' | Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.'
Hence follow five more li... | Joseph Conrad | H.G. Wells | Love and Mr Lewisham | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you extremely for your kind present of Doyle's clever "Bird's-eye Views of Society", which have already been hi... | Marianne, 'Meta' and Julia Gaskell | Richard Doyle | Bird's-eye Views of Society | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [Report of the Sanitary Commission] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Atlantic Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Pope | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which look... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Addington Symonds | Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I w... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James Russell Lowell | Fireside Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Lever | Tony Butler | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Maggie Elliott | [story with title like 'Jem'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh... | Margaret Ruskin | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''The MS heralded by your letter arrived tbhis morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: te... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News ... | Florence Elizabeth Crompton | [n/a] | Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly al... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Cruz Alta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | [book on portraits of Dante] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James R. Lowell | Fireside Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James R. Lowell | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | James R. Lowell | Biglow Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteri... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Cinque Ports | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [ita... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I ha... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Villa Rubein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable,constructed and inhabi... | Joseph Conrad | Olive Garnett | The Petersburg Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Silence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most intetesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attract... | Joseph Conrad | Frank Challice Constable | (letter) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace... | Joseph Conrad | | Blackwood's Magazine. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his boo... | Joseph Conrad | William Robert Kennedy | Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in the Navy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath ... | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'.
Hence follows a page of constructive criticism. | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Man of Devon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["The Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiratio... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Vanished Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kubla Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.' | Virginia Woolf | Euripides | The Bacchae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent,... | Virginia Woolf | Julia Mary Cartwright Ady | The Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.' | Virginia Woolf | Alice Stopford Green | Town Life in the Fifteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.' | Virginia Woolf | J.W. Mackail | Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.' | Virginia Woolf | Austen Henry Layard | Nineveh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "History of Music."' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [History of Music] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.' | Virginia Woolf | Rhoda Broughton | Not Wisely but Too Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.' | Virginia Woolf | | The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him q... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific el... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | The Discovery of the Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]' | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | (An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am ... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | A Man from the North. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volu... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Bushwhacking and Other Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.' | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Making of Modern Verse | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the "Rossetti". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.' | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid.Of the thing itself I think but littl... | Joseph Conrad | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful... | Joseph Conrad | Elizabeth Martindale | Margaret Hever | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual un... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | [Stories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to r... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Success | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".'
Conrad then very briefly mentions two stories, one by Neil Munro. | Joseph Conrad | Neil Munro | Children of the Tempest | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | 'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ... | Joseph Conrad | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ... | Joseph Conrad | James Fenimore Cooper | The Deerslayer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ... | Joseph Conrad | James Fenimore Cooper | The Prairie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Meta & I have read this 1st vol of Rachel Gray - I think it very interesting' | Elizabeth and Margaret (Meta) Gaskell | Julia Kavanagh | Rachel Gray | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Cox Bennett | Baby May and Other Poems on Infants | Unknown |
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1850-1899 | 'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | William Cox Bennett | Triumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly roo... | Miss Jewsbury | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Julius Hare | Guesses at Truth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Inquirer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?' | Marianne Gaskell | [unknown] | [a history of the French Revolution] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The children who like Bessy's Troubles are great geese, & no judges at all, which children generally are, for it is c... | 'children', presumably known to Marianne Gaskell | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Bessy's Troubles at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'. | Marianne Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "P... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That i... | Joseph Conrad | | various newspapers and periodicals | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (ve... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Ellen Nussey | [account of Anne Bronte's death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you so... | Charlotte Bronte | [unknown] | ['standard works'; not novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Par... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | [French] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Ni... | Miss Thompson | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [unknown] | [letter to Marianne Gaskell] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave g... | Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Julia Kavanagh | [possibly] French Women of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".' | 'the Heald girls' | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, -... | Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient mariner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read the book, the more wonderful it seems to me. It is really a great book. Arthur says, and I more than ... | Edith Sitwell | Sacheverall Sitwell | All Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical Fantasia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your ... | Edith Sitwell | E M Forster | The Eternal Moment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845:
'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certai... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Chambers | Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845:
'I have been so low, and weary, & tired of life [...] Yes... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Eugene Sue | Le Juif errant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845:
'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not a... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Raymond Brucker and Michel Masson | Le macon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Delphine de Girardin | L'Ecole des journalistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845:
'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballad... | Mary Russell Mitford | Victor Hugo | Odes et Ballades (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845:
'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just f... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hans Christian Andersen | The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1845:
'Read George Sand's "Jeanne". It is full of beauty, of p... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Jeanne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday, I underwent one of the greatest experiences in my life - at a "Poets Reading" in aid of charity. The whole... | Edith Sitwell | Robert Nichols | Don Juan | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845:
'A most singular book of Eugene Sue's [sic] I have read l... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Le Bananier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845:
'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne and Mary Gillies | A Story Book of Country Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845:
'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & t... | Moulton-Barrett family (children) | S. W. | A Visit to a Farm-house | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845:
'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Ath... | Harriet Martineau | | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Bernard | Un homme serieux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Bernard | Le Paravent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Bernard | Une Aventure de magistrat | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Rose et Blanche | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'I must beg you to order & read "Le rouge et le noir" by ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Stendhal | Le rouge et le noir | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the clim... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henriette Etiennette Fanny Reybaud | Deux a deux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845:
'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Caroline Norton | 'The Child of the Islands' (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [... | Robert Browning | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845:
'That book you like so, the Danish novel, mu... | Robert Browning | Hans Christian Andersen | The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845:
'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845:
'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Esther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'. | George Crabbe | | [Romances] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.' | George Crabbe | | [Novels and poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | | [Latin medical books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | | [botany books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | Gilbert Knowles | Materia medica botanica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'. | George Crabbe | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Maximes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [funeral address for Duke of Rutland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becomi... | George Crabbe | Michael Drayton | Polyolbion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | Arthur Young | Six Month's Tour Through the North of England, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | William Marshall | Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; i... | George Crabbe | Johan Christian Fabricius | Systema entomologiae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticis... | George Crabbe | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you... | Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland | George Crabbe | Parish Register, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you... | Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland | George Crabbe | Library, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you... | Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland | George Crabbe | Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | Library, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | Dodsley | [Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Library'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | Dodsley | [Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Village'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | Patron, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descrip... | Sophia Scott | George Crabbe | Tales in verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845:
'Thank you, thank you, for letting me see the pencilled lin... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | John Clare | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845:
'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845:
'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank... | Elizabeth Barrett | Allan Park Paton | 'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845:
'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you menti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ebenezer Elliott | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845:
'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Le Compagnon du Tour de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845:
'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Claret and Tokay' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, ?18 July 1845:
'I confess to you that [...] as soon as I read your "Essay on ... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845:
'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edgar Allan Poe | 'The Raven' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with ... | George Crabbe | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Lower World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve... | George Crabbe | | Scotish Review, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve... | George Crabbe | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We like you amuse ourselves with reading: we are familiar with the Scenery of the North & Court of King James: we cou... | Crabbe family | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To my Gothic ear, indeed the "Stabat Mater", the "Dies Irae", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are ... | Walter Scott | George Buchanan | [Latin poems and hymns] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold a... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end canc... | George Crabbe | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Sympathy; a Poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Horace in London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Rejected Addresses | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or ... | George Crabbe | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Sc... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Sc... | Walter Scott's children | George Crabbe | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our lord of the "cairn & the scaur" waste wilderness and hundred hills for many a league around is the Duke of Buccle... | Charles William Montagu Scott and Harriet Katherine Townshend, Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch | George Crabbe | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Crabbe relates how he had fallen in love with Charlotte Williams and written her various letters, before she revealed... | Charlotte Ridout | George Crabbe | [letters from Crabbe to Charlotte Ridout's friend Charlotte Williams] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita... | John Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Boy and the Angel' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 14 June 1845:
'When I ask my wise self what I really do rem... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Timbuctoo | |
| 1800-1849 | 'R[obert] B[rowning] wrote seven and a half pages of comments about E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett]'s revised translat... | Robert Browning | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and ... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Alice, or The Mysteries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and ... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Ernest Maltravers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'There lies Consuelo -- done with!
'I sh... | Robert Browning | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845:
'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Edgar Allan Poe | 'The Raven' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845:
'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first t... | Robert Browning | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845:
'I began to write last saturday to thank... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Posthumous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845:
'I began to write last saturday to thank... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Marianne's Dream' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845:
'I have read to the last line of your Rosic... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845:
'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [..... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Oh to be in England' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845:
'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Les Paysans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845:
'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Eugene Sue | Le Juif errant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845:
'Before I have half re[a]d through you... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Dramatic Romances and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845:
'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | Luria (Act I) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henry Fothergill Chorley, ?14 November 1845:
'I have read your three volumes of "Pomfret" with... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Pomfret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 November 1845:
'Since I wrote what is above, I have been reading [...] tha... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | 'Past and Future' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845:
'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & t... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de Custine | Le Monde comme il est | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 20 December 1845:
'Mrs. Sigourney has just sent me, .. just... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Lydia Sigourney | Scenes in my Native Land | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 December 1845:
'Yesterday I was reading the "Purgatorio" and the first spe... | Robert Browning | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846:
'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that ... | Robert Browning | Richard Hengist Horne | Ballad Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846:
'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that ... | Robert Browning | Richard Hengist Horne | 'The Merrie Devil of Edmonton' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846:
'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that ... | Robert Browning | Richard Hengist Horne | 'Stanzas to a Ruined Windmill' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846:
'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, afte... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'The Monk of Swineshead Abbey' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846:
'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, afte... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'The Three Knights of Camelott: a Fairy Tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846:
'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, afte... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'Bedd Gelert' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have re... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Les Petits Menages d'une Femme verteuse | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Edward Bulwer Lytton | 'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?7 January 1846:
'Zoe [...] I have been reading at last. An extraordinar... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury | Zoe: The History of Two Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846:
'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend the... | Moulton-Barrett family | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Voltaire | Philosophical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846:
'As to the [cl... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | William King | Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]ite... | George Crabbe | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | George Crabbe | Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | George Crabbe | Library, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | George Crabbe | Newspaper, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who sh... | Mary Leadbeter | George Crabbe | Parish Register, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who sh... | Mary Leadbeter | George Crabbe | Tales in Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who sh... | Mary Leadbeter | George Crabbe | Borough, the | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who sh... | Mary Leadbeter | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mary Leadbeter! - Yes indeed I do well remember You! not Leadbeter then, but a pretty demure Lass, standing a timid A... | Mary Shackleton | Mary Shackleton | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is co... | George Crabbe | Mary Leadbeter | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.' | George Crabbe | Edmund Malone | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.' | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | [present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!' | George Crabbe | Maria Graham | Journal of A Residence in India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'. | George Crabbe | Maria Edgeworth | [Dramas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Fathe... | George Crabbe | Amelia Alderson Opie | Father and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical Pieces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.' | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Tales from the Hall | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received Mr Roger's poem of which I was happy to hear an admirable Character at Bath & in Company where nothin... | friends of Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as... | lady friends of Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have p... | George Crabbe | Francis Jeffrey | [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the ba... | George Crabbe | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand ... | George Crabbe | Washington Irving | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.' | George Crabbe | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - ... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [Miscellany] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon t... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by som... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Patrick Keith | Systems of Physiological Botany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [Travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Denis Chavis | Arabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Thomas Warton | History of English Poetry, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous... | George Crabbe | William Hazlitt | Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I ... | George Crabbe | Johann C. Spurzheim | Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I ... | George Crabbe | Abraham Scott | Calvinistic Doctrines Refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morni... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Morning Herald, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries | Print: Book |
| | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Reynolds | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849:
'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] r... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849:
'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] r... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Eugene Sue | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849:
'The [French] President's letter from Rome has ... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Louis Napoleon | Letter to Edgar Ney | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849:
'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere --... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh Clough | Ambarvalia (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849:
'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere --... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | John Kenyon | 'Sacred Gipsy Carol' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, a... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh Clough | Ambarvalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, a... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Arthur Hugh Clough | The Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, a... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Matthew Arnold | 'The Sick King in Bokhara' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, a... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Matthew Arnold | 'The Forsaken Merman' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 February 1850:
'Such a magical act as conjuring up for me th... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | (Probably) 'The Bugle Song' (opening 'The splendour falls') | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much p... | Robert Browning | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Caxtons. A Family Picture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much p... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850:
'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to ... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850:
'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to ... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Honore de Balzac | Le Cousin Pons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850:
'I complain of Florence for the want of books --... | Robert Browning | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850:
'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italic... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850:
'I return the "Confidences" with thanks upon thanks. Both... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine | Les Confidences | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850:
'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850:
'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Catherine Maria Fanshawe | poems | Manuscript: Unknown, copied |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850:
'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Ten... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850:
'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]Nort... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | 'German Socialism' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The History of Pendennis (2 vols, 1849-50) by William Makepeace Thackeray was published by Bradbury and Evans in twen... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?3 December, 1850: 'I send the first volume of Pendennis. We have one more ... | Robert Browning | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850:
'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] O... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850:
'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] O... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850:
'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] O... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Latter-Day Pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I... | Robert Browning | John Westland Marston | Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | John Westland Marston | Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850:
'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disap... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850:
'As to "In Memoriam," I have seen it, I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December:
'We have been... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December:
'We have been... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851:
'Now I am going to speak to you a... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | sonnets ['from the Portugese'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845:
'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreea... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | | The French Stage and the French People, as illustrated in the Memoirs of M. Fleury | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few p... | George Crabbe | William Lisle Bowles | Parochial History of Bremhill, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Edward Copleston | Inquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predestination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | John Newton | Cardiphonia, or Utterance of the Heart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very n... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [book on witchcraft trials] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas... | George Crabbe | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?' | George Crabbe | Christopher Benson | Hulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulties; Twenty Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking M... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [unknown work on religious enthusiasm] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | [newspapers at time of Reform debate] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Lady Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Ellen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have n... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [sermons] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Florence MacCunn | Sir Walter Scott's Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | J. Soames | [article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinkin... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Ja... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901:
'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over... | Leonard Woolf | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901:
'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell ... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Marriott | The Column | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901:
'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refus... | Leonard Woolf | Honore De Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Parace... | The 'X' Society | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts o... | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Kyd | The Spanish Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His Monkey Wife isn't a work of talent; it is a work of genius - or the word genius doesn't mean anything. Anyhow, it... | Edith Sitwell | John Collier | His Monkey wife; or, Married to a Chimp | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper ... | Leonard Woolf | | The Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper ... | Thoby Stephen | | 'What is Sport?' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902:
'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the ne... | Leonard Woolf | Maxim Gorky | Foma Gordyeeff | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902:
'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agr... | Lytton Strachey | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike ... | The 'X' Society | John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Turkish Tales' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | A Rebours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It incl... | Leonard Woolf | Arthur Schopenhauer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Barry Pain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Oscar Wilde | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | | A Manual of Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903:
'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team... | Leonard Woolf | George Stout | [on Psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904:
'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees &... | Leonard Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905:
'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905:
'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Alfred de Vigny | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | R. B. O'Brien | The Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | R. B. O'Brien | The Life of Russell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | La Dictionnaire Philosophique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905:
'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only ex... | Leonard Woolf | Denis Diderot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905:
'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905:
'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordi... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So man... | Antonia White | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas' | Antonia White | [unknown] | [MSS by or about Carlyle] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-right... | Antonia White | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] h... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense')
"There may well be intense consciousness in the total... | Antonia White | George Santayana | Reason in Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817)
"negative capabil... | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'. | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Field | [book on child psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Humphrey Jennings | Little town in France | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not w... | Antonia White | Marcel Proust | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but ... | Tom Hopkinson | Antonia White | Lost Traveller, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ... | Tom Hopkinson | Antonia White | [diary notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | [diary notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: th... | Antonia White | Peter Warlock | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading... | Antonia White | Francis Thompson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] boulev... | Antonia White | John Woolman | Journal of John Woolman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference betwee... | Antonia White | Charlotte d'Erlanger | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke ret... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['trash'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished ... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['lives of painters'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['journals of poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook
Free spirit liable to possession or obsession...
Debauchery is t... | Antonia White | Eric Siepmann | [notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | I have been Drowned | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Emily | [poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation'] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same f... | Antonia White | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Brothers Karamazov, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not ... | Antonia White | Frances Grigson | [letters to Tom Hopkinson] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on... | Antonia White | Hoare | [article on Rimbaud] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on... | Antonia White | [n/a] | Vogue | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her.... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | Tigron, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Antonia White | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Emily Coleman | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly... | Antonia White | Andre Breton | Nadja | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses tho... | George Barker | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Dejection: An Ode | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'. | Antonia White | Basil Nicholson | Business is Business | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear,... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonp... | James Lees-Milne | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding ... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... | Antonia White | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... | | [unknown] | [French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ... | Basil Nicholson | Andrew Marvell | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ... | Basil Nicholson | John Keats | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and comp... | Antonia White | Laura Riding | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see ... | Antonia White | Katherine Mansfield | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading he... | Antonia White | Christine Botting | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.' | Susan Glossop | Antonia White | Frost at Midnight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said i... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diary] | Manuscript: Codex, green notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read ... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [a life of George Eliot] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his inventi... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.' | Cecil King | [n/a] | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.' | Cecil King | Charles Montagu Doughty | Travels in Arabia Deserta | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.' | Cecil King | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion ge... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diary notebooks] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the... | Antonia White | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | Man Below, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jules Michelet | French Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution francaise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Arthur Conan Doyle | [Sherlock Holmes Stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [e... | Antonia White | [n/a] | New Statesman, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | [n/a] | [an American magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write.... | Ian Henderson | Antonia White | [MS fiction] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, f... | Antonia White | George Sand | [letters to and from Flaubert] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attemp... | Antonia White | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journ... | Antonia White | Julien Green | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ... | Antonia White | George Tyrrell | [Jesuit writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [Catholic texts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has falle... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diaries] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping ... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diaries] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'. | Antonia White | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand t... | Antonia White | [n/a] | [Gospels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [writings about religion, Church History, etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | Walter Hylton | Scala Perfectionis, or Ladder of Perfection | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | Julian of Norwich | Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Woodstock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906:
'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua ... | Leonard Woolf | Roger Fry | The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 24 June 1906:
'Here an enterprising female has started a Shakespeare Reading ... | Shakespeare Reading Society | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906:
'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I b... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906:
'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [Joh... | Leonard Woolf | Jean de la Bruyere | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907:
'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I... | Leonard Woolf | Sir George Otto Trevelyan | The Competition Wallah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907:
'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an as... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | The Longest Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907:
'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricu... | Leonard Woolf | Francis Cornford | Thucydides Mythistoricus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907:
'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the trai... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908:
'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] &... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | A Room with a View | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909:
'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & pap... | Leonard Woolf | G. E. Moore | 'Professor James' "Pragmatism"' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | 'tale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Earl of Cromer | Modern Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911:
'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S.... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Leonard Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Leonard Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Les Freres Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Edgar Woolf | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912:
'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can ... | Leonard Woolf | Virginia Stephen | fiction MSS | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912:
'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than... | Leonard Woolf | | Spanish dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912:
'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolate... | Virginia Woolf | | The Strand Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Virginia Woolf | | The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Leonard Woolf | | Poor Law Minority Report | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913:
'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the... | Maurice B. Wright | Leonard Woolf | The Village in the Jungle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marie Woolf to Leonard Woolf (reader's son), 11 December 1913:
'I am now returning you the Manuscript [of The Wise ... | Marie Woolf | Leonard Woolf | The Wise Virgins | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914:
'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914:
'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's ... | Giles Lytton Strachey | Lytton Strachey | Life of Cardinal Manning | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | Hurrell Froude | Remains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | John Henry Newman | Apologia pro vita sua | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916:
'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laug... | Leonard Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Life of Dr Arnold | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923:
'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy jour... | Leonard Woolf | | report of death of Samuel Garrett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928:
'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell... | Leonard Woolf | Dorothy Osborne | The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930:
'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I canno... | Leonard Woolf | T. S. Eliot | Ash Wednesday | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | | Classical Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard and Virginia Woolf | Robert Trevelyan | Epistle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic... | Leonard Woolf | H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler | The King's English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic... | Leonard Woolf | Marie Corelli | extracts from novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924:
'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hand... | Leonard Woolf | John Clare | Madrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems written by John Clare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933:
'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which... | Leonard Woolf | Frank Hardie | 'Youth, Socialism and Peace' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940:
'I read your article on th... | Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes | Leonard Woolf | article on 'the politician and the intellectual' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955:
'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigeria... | Charles Temple | Leonard Woolf | Empire and Commerce in Africa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968:
'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re... | Leonard Woolf | Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968:
'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re... | Leonard Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a... | Laetitia van Lewen | John Dryden | Alexander's Feast | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, a... | Laetitia van Lewen | Alexander Pope | Sacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil’s 'Pollio' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Re... | Laetitia van Lewen | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amint... | Laetitia van Lewen | Matthew Pilkington | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amint... | Elizabeth van Lewen | Matthew Pilkington | [letters to her daughter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and bea... | Laetitia Van Lewen | Constantia Grierson | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and bea... | Laetitia Van Lewen | Mary Barber | Poems on Several Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington reproduces her poem 'The Petition of the Birds', written for her fiance] This little poetical Essay met w... | Matthew Pilkington | Laetitia Van Lewen | Petition of the Birds, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had him [Dean Swift] all to myself for near three hours, during which time he made me read to him the Annals of the... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | History of the Four Last Years of the Queen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Henry St John Bolingbroke | [letters to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [letters to Swift from various correspondents] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letters to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali... | Jonathan Swift | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstand... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | 'a Libel on Dr Delany and a Certain Great Lord' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [reported speech of Jonathan Swift] 'In the first Place, Mr [italics] Pilkington [end italics], she had the Insolence ... | Matthew Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letter to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'borrowing a Hint from a Story in the [italics] Peruvian [end italics] Tales; I form'd from it the following Poem' [sh... | Laetitia Pilkington | Thomas-Simon Gueulette | Mille et une heures, contes peruviens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | Laetitia Pilkington | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | 'a Lady of Distinction' | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | Anne Wainwright | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | John, Baron Wainwright | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute... | Jonathan Swift | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute... | Jonathan Swift | Laetitia Pilkington | Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute... | friends of Swift | Laetitia Pilkington | Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We supp'd at the Dean's, and I had been reading out, by his Command, some of his prosaic Work; he was pleased to say ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | [prose works] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Matthew Pilkington] was one Winter's Evening reading [italics] Horace [end italics], and said he would engage to ... | Matthew Pilkington | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contr... | Matthew Pilkington | Laetitia Pilkington | Ode, An | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contr... | Laetitia Pilkington | Matthew Pilkington | [a Horatian Ode] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letter to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in... | Jonathan Swift | Matthew Pilkington | [letter to Laetitia Pilkington, about Pope] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it,
[italics] Behold the f... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Verses on the Death of Dr Swift | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it,
[italics] Behold the f... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Life and Genuine Character of Dr Swift, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Jonathan Swift | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The following Ode of [italics] Horace [end italics] bearing some Similitude to my then present Circumstances, I took ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Various | Autographs | Manuscript: Autographs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-temp... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 20th January 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under an... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Baillie Welsh | Letter dated 29th January | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father fo... | Thomas Carlyle | | The Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Obse... | Laetitia Pilkington | Patrick Delany | Fifteen Sermons upon Social Duties | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pil... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Lea... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar... | Laetitia Pilkington | Matthew Pilkington | [alteration to her poem on 'Stella'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar... | Matthew Pilkington | Laetititia Pilkington | [verses on 'Stella'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar... | James Worsdale | Laetititia Pilkington | [verses on 'Stella'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and... | | Laetititia Pilkington | Verses on Counsellor Callaghan | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and... | | Laetititia Pilkington | Verses on Counsellor Callaghan | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [it... | Matthew Pilkington | Laetititia Pilkington | [poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [it... | Laetitia Pilkington | Matthew Pilkington | [poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is known to every learned Divine, that the Priests engross'd the whole Country of [italics] Egypt [end italics], a... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] D... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [commendatory verses by various admirers] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasur... | Laetitia Pilkington | Stephen Hales | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [e... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To Mr Cibber | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [e... | gentlemen at White's Club | Laetitia Pilkington | To Mr Cibber | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n... | gentlemen at White's Club | Laetitia Pilkington | To The Hon. Colonel Duncombe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n... | Augustus, Lord Fitzroy | Laetitia Pilkington | To The Hon. Colonel Duncombe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where... | George Turnbull | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A short while after he went down Stairs, he sent his Compliments up, and begg'd I would lend him a Book to amuse hims... | George Turnbull | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end itali... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq. | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end itali... | Henry Pelham | Laetitia Pilkington | To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq. | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'To Colley Cibber, Esq.] 'Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] received these Lines with his usua... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To Colley Cibber, Esq | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP recounts her first meeting with Colley Cibber] '"Sit down", said he, "be less ceremonious to be better bred; come,... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | Sorrow | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italic... | Emilia, Lady Lennox | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t... | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I ventured to communicate to him [Dr Turnbull] Mr [italics] Walsh[end italics]'s Letter; the Doctor lifted up his Han... | George Turnbull | J. Walsh | [letter professing to be from Matthew Pilkington's lawyer] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I ingenuously told him [Mr Parkinson], I had no other Fortune than my Pen, and, at his request, shewed him some of my... | Mr Parkinson | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly ... | George Rooke | Laetitia Pilkington | Apology for the Minister, An | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very h... | Laetitia Pilkington | [n/a] | Champion, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives... | George Rooke | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives... | George Rooke | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [books on Roman History] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for
[ital... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Lady's Dressing-Room, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr E-e, seeing my Table covered with written Papers, told me, my Room resembled that of a Lawyer, and asked me Leave ... | Mr E-e | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, t... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [a French drinking song] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little f... | Thomas Carlyle | | Spanish Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligenc... | Thomas Carlyle | Alexander Carlyle | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom ... | Thomas Carlyle | Badams | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furnit... | Thomas Carlyle | Badams | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderm... | Edmond Curll | Matthew Pilkington | [Life of Barber] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recomm... | Hans Sloane | Laetitia Pilkington | [Letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my... | | Laetitia Pilkington | Roman Father, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over ... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [prison discharge document] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [On New Year's Day, 1743, LP published verses in the 'Gazette' in honour of Colley Cibber] 'My dear old Friend was ple... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To Colley Cibber, esq. | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Samuel Richardson | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As my dear Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] had made me a present of fifty of his last Answer to Mr [italics] Pope [... | Laetitia Pilkington | Colley Cibber | Egotist, The | |
| 1700-1799 | [LP gives the text of a poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'I sent these Lines to my dear Gentleman, who presently came to me, as I ... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To Mr Cibber | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jack Pilkington | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter] | Laetitia Pilkington | Jack Pilkington | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but wa... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [inscriptions] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | Eliza Haywood | Female Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Leben Fibels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitschriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | Die Flegeljahre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anne Lefevre Dacier | [translations of and notes on Homer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Katherine Philips | Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Katherine Philips | ''in Memory of F.P. who died at Acton the 24 May 1660 at 12 and a 1/2 of Age' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Abraham Cowley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),... | Thomas Carlyle | Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine | Raphael | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),... | Thomas Carlyle | Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine | Rudolph von Werdenberg | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),... | Thomas Carlyle | Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine | Tinchen oder die Mannerprobe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I cannot, except my own Countrywoman, Mrs [italics] Grierson [end italics], find out another female Writer, whose Wor... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mrs Grierson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your Lordship's poetry in my Praise I can never forget, and as it would be a Loss to the World if any Part of so just... | Laetitia Pilkington | Bishop Clayton | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Su... | Laetitia Pilkington | Benjamin Hoadly | Suspicious Husband, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it wo... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [poetry by various correspondents] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities,... | Laetitia Pilkington | [n/a] | Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; ... | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | [German novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richt... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Paul Friedrich Richter | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the let... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 13 June | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Donaldson has seen my will too with your name written in it in great letters. No matter! why should I be ashamed... | Mr Donaldson | Jane Baillie Welsh | Will | Manuscript: Will |
| 1900-1945 | 'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrive... | Harold Nicolson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Merc... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 3 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest
I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter,... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 20 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My own, best, dearest Love
I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 29th July 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of deliveri... | James Johnston | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 4 August | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | '(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...) | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I let Colonel Haworth read a bit of it. "By God!" he said, "this is the first book I've read on Persia which gives o... | | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to... | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh dear, [...] that's what comes of living alone in the rain and reading Wordsworth.' | Vita Sackville-West | William Wordsworth | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whet... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | [nineteenth-century works] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | "memoir of Old Bloomsbury" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that... | Vita Sackville-West | Virginia Woolf | Orlando | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". Th... | Harold Nicolson | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read French and German newspapers. Wrote three paragraphs. Fiddled about.' | Harold Nicolson | | [French and German newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898:
'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir T... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Rutherford Crockett | The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Morgan Forster | "The Greek Feeling for Nature" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Nature Notes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899:
'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jabez Bunting Dimbleby | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Maurice Hewlett | The Forest Lovers: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899:
'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900:
'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of... | George Macaulay Trevelyan | George Macaulay Trevelyan | 'The Uses of History' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900:
'Thank you so much for sending the Punches. They are a publi... | Undergraduates at King's College, Cambridge | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905:
'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e... | | Edward Morgan Forster | paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Coun... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Child's first Lesebuch' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Butler | Erewhon; or, Over the Range | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905:
'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905:
'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[George Macaulay] Trevelyan wrote to Leonard Woolf (December 1905 [...]) "I wonder whether you will have seen E. M. F... | George Macaulay Trevelyan | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906:
'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise... | Edward Morgan Forster | Joris-Karl Huysmans | La Cathedrale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907:
'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Garnett | A Censored Play: The Breaking Point | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908:
'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f... | Edward Morgan Forster | Hugh Walpole | The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, 2 July 1909:
'Something exciting is coming on [...] The Minister for Foreign Aff... | Sir Edward Grey | E. M. Forster | works | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910:
'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was goin... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest B. Havell | Indian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and Ideals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910:
'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Le... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Baillie Welsh | Letter dated 9 October 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Grace Baillie Welsh | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'However, at all Hazards, I'll venture to stand the Test of publishing the Following, because Mr [italics] Cibber [end... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | Roman Father, The; A Tragedy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'One Day, as I was in my Shop, a Gentleman, very richly dressed, told me, he had a Letter for me; I received it very r... | Laetitia Pilkington | Laetitia Pilkington | [a love letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale c... | James Worsdale | Laetitia Pilkington | To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale c... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [ita... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers | |
| 1700-1799 | [Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a p... | Samuel Foote | John Carteret Pilkington | To Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in Paris | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | Lord Kingsborough | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Windsor Forest | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Denham | Cooper's Hill | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury | Philosophical Rhapsody, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'... | | Laetitia Pilkington | [notice in her shop window] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she t... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | On the Death of Mr Crashaw | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she t... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [Inscription on monument of godfrey Kneller in Westminster Abbey] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1700-1799 | [Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired a... | an earl | Laetitia Pilkington | [Memoirs and Poems] | Manuscript: volume |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Barber, whose Name, at her earnest request, I omitted in my first Volume, and who was the Lady I mentioned to hav... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mary Barber | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was in... | Laetitia Pilkington | Colley Cibber | [alterations to her poem 'To Mr Cibber'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was in... | Colley Cibber | Laetitia Pilkington | To Mr Cibber | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was in... | Colley Cibber | Colley Cibber | Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910:
'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910:
'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Niccolo Manucci | Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910:
'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | British Dominion in India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | Idolatry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. F. I. Graham | The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. Felix Wedgwood | The Shadow of a Titan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Valentine Chiriol | Indian Unrest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911:
'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hardy | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912:
'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it d... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Moore | Ave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. L. Strachey | Landmarks in French Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. T. Sheppard | Greek Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Mme Augustine Bulteau | L'Ame des Anglais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Chevrillon | Dans L'Inde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Lascelles Abercrombie | Emblems of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912:
'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Miss Wright | poem | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter de la Mare | The Return | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Amber Reeves | The Reward of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912:
'Dear Woolf
'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Leonard Woolf | story | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912:
'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Richard Barham Middleton | 'The Ghost Ship' | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912:
'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913:
'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. th... | anon | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Mansfield Park" [Jane Austen]. Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne. I also read Aristotle's Et... | Harold Nicolson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Face" is one of his favourite books; so there. He simply loves it. Also your book on your father.' | Harry Grant | Harold Nicolson | Public Faces | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.' | Harold Nicolson | Emily Dickinson | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and ... | | | Time | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mrs Meade | [letter to LP's son, Jack] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Ge... | a gentleman | Laetitia Pilkington | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Min... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [poems sent by admirers] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Xenophon | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Francis Hutcheson | Inquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, An | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a... | Laetitia Pilkington | Francis Hutcheson | Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a... | Laetitia Pilkington | Francis Hutcheson | Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a... | Edward Synge | Francis Hutcheson | Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Pro... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Wollaston | Religion of Nature Delineated, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'my Curiosity led me to read the Letter before I examined the Contents of the Paper [plum cake from Jonathan Swift], w... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Charles Wogan | ['Adventures of Eugenius' - veiled Autobiography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Charles Wogan | [Psalms of David in Miltonic verse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Charles Wogan | [letter on the subject of 'The Beggar's Opera'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Matthew Pilkington | Charles Wogan | [various works sent to Jonathan Swift] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Having been told by a lady that Lord Kingsborough lived nearby, and expressed enthusiasm, the lady said] 'well, Madam... | a lady | Laetitia Pilkington | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Woolaston | Religion of Nature Delineated, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote, in order to gain Relief, to a Prelate of [italics] Ireland [end italics], then resident in [italics] London ... | Robert Clayton | Laetitia Pilkington | [letter asking for financial assistance] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I communicated this Letter [from Colley Cibber, reproduced in the text] to Lord Chief Baron [italics] Bowes [end ital... | Arthur Hill, Lord Bowes | Colley Cibber | [letter to LP] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [LP received a letter from Lord Kingsborough, in response to her Dedication to him] 'I return you my Thanks for the Fa... | Robert, Lord Kingsborough | Laetitia Pilkington | [Dedication to her 'Memoirs'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy... | Robert, Lord Kingsborough | Laetitia Pilkington | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy... | Robert, Lord Kingsborough | Laetitia Pilkington | To the Right Hon. the Lord Kingsborough | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In much that way, I felt later, when my mother first read Beowulf to me, Grendel must have come up from his marsh mis... | Rosemary Sutcliff | | Beowulf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | | Rainbow | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Beatrix Potter | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | A.A. Milne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Hans Christian Andersen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Kenneth Grahame | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Rudyard Kipling | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | George John Whyte-Melville | The Gladiators | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Last Days of Pompeii | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Arthur Weigal | Egyptian Princess | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '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 mist... | Rosemary Sutcliff | unknown | [children's book] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would ... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Hans Christian Andersen | Little Match Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last,... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Grimm | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '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 c... | Rosemary Sutcliff | L.M. Montgomery | Emily of New Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an Engl... | Harold Nicolson | Charles Lamb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I went to a party given by Mr Baldwin [Prime Minister] to the junior Ministers at No. 10. We all sat round the Cabin... | Harold Nicolson | | King's Speech | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moreover, her train had arrived one-and-a-half hours before luncheon, so she had gone to the Paddington Hotel and sat... | Ethel Smyth | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in t... | Harold Nicolson | Vita Sackville-West | Solitude | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Napl... | Harold Nicolson | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Gr... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | [selections from a Greek Anthology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some... | Vita Sackville-West | Edmund Wilson | Through the Embassy Window; Harold Nicolson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and ... | Vita Sackville-West | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words ar... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | 'British Storms' in Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Fortnightly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Baptise Honore Raymond Capefigue | Histoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne de Henri IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Henley,
Sketches
III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan.
IV As a whole.
VII Both quatrain... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits | Print: Probably proof. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your preface to Aubrey is as delightful as it is learned, and Aubrey himself astonishes me more and more. Has there e... | Edith Sitwell | John Aubrey | The Scandals and Credulities of John Aubrey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, alth... | Edith Sitwell | John Hayward | Nineteenth Century Poetry - An Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things th... | Ford Madox Ford | Ivan Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little l... | Ford Madox Ford | Pierre de Ronsard | Sonnets pour Helene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had r... | soldier | [unknown] | [a review of Ford's work] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Ca... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'. | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown article in French] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it w... | Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen | [unknown] | [book on wild flowers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | [newspaper classifieds] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Author... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | [n/a] | [press cuttings - subject unknown] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Clifford Bax | Ford Madox Ford | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen | Clifford Bax | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen | Phyllis Reid | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Phyllis Reid | Phyllis Reid | [a poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'P.'s roving eye fell upon your letter of today, & read the beginning of the sentence about "Poor old Phyllis & her po... | Phyllis Reid | Ford Madox Ford | [letter to Stella Bowen] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | '[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Per... | Esther Julia Ford | [unknown] | [first reading] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. Whe... | Ford Madox Ford | Herbert George Wells | Outline of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Mr Bosphorus and the Muses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on... | Esther Julia Ford | Herbert George Wells | Outline of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about ... | | Ford Madox Ford | Holbein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about ... | | Maurice Hewlett | Little Novels of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say i... | Esther Julia Ford | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Ma... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Marsden Case, The: A Romance | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlini... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | World, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations] | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | [n/a] | Daily Mail, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...... | Ford Madox Ford | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [..... | Rebecca West | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "The Old Houses of Flanders" & "Clair de Lune", first half, & "Thank Goodness the Moving is Over" last night a... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | [several poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is... | Ford Madox Ford | Jessie Conrad | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Euro... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible... | Ford Madox Ford | Jessie Conrad | Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through ... | Albert Boni | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said he... | Douglas Cole | Getrude Stein | [art criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Robert... | Ford Madox Ford | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was lately forced into the rather close examination of this book, for I had to translate it into French, that forci... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Good Soldier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in t... | | Ford Madox Ford | Good Soldier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in t... | John Rodker | Ford Madox Ford | Good Soldier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud.... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTI... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | New York Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Isabel Paterson | [column in ] New York Herald Tribune Books | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown article about Ezra Pound] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ernest Hemingway | Sun Also Rises, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Violet Hunt | I Have This to Say | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday... | Ford Madox Ford | Isabel Paterson | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered.... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ... | | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am not half so pleased [as with "The Last Post"] with "New York is not America", the American proofs of which I am ... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | New York is Not America | Print: page proofs for American edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: page proofs for American edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: page proofs for English edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying ove... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things th... | Ford Madox Ford | Ezra Pound | [early poems] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many ... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - sugge... | Ford Madox Ford | Edward Morgan Forster | Aspects of the Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't bel... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want' | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [research for 'A Little Less than Gods'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | New York Times Book Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | William McFee | New York Herald Tribune Books | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | Harry Hensen | [untraced review of Ford's 'The Last Post'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enou... | Ford Madox Ford | Esther Julia Ford | [a short story] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enou... | Esther Julia Ford | Esther Julia Ford | [a short story] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've ... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | [articles on Pacific politics] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea... | Janice Biala | [unknown] | [life and letters of Gauguin] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Cape has seen the first 4 chapters [of what Stella calls 'Towards Tomorrow']. He finds them full of charm but says he... | | Ford Madox Ford | [early chapters of what would become 'It was the Nightingale'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Isabel Paterson | [review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | W.R. Benet | 'Uncle Ford' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'. | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've just received "The Great Trade Route" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is... | Esther Julia Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Great Trade Route, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing ... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope ... | Esther Julia Ford | Ford Madox Ford | March of Literature, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'he swapped and shared books, especially Billy Bunter stories. ("[Bunter's] roars and squeaks of anguish were constant... | Philip Larkin | Frank Richards | [Billy Bunter stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sutton and Larkin grew steadily closer as they moved up through the senior school. Tiring of their childish reading, ... | Philip Larkin | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Philip Larkin | [unknown] | [various fiction works in his father's library] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Oscar Wilde | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Samuel Butler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Aldous Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | John Cowper Powys | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Llewelyn Powys | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Theodore Francis Powys | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | James Joyce | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Christina Rossetti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Alfred Edward Housman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Thomas Stearns Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Edward Falaise Upward | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Christopher Isherwood | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher... | Philip Larkin | Paul Verlaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher... | Philip Larkin | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Verlaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | law books | Print: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law. |
| 1850-1899 | [On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Penn | Fruits of Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Nanon...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Sand | Nanon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Kingdom Clifford | The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State | Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author. |
| 1900-1945 | 'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' | Joseph Conrad | Ernest Dawson | The River of Cathay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here an... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | A Free Lance of Today | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm,to the last paragraph wi... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talk... | Joseph Conrad | Henry-Durand Davray | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good ... | Joseph Conrad | Marcelle Tinayre | La Maison du Peché | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Hay Athole Macdonald | election speech | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. ... | Philip Larkin | George Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Henry Green | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Virginia Woolf | Waves, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Julian Hall | Senior Commoner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Christopher Isherwood | All the Conspirators | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | William Wordsworth | 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Henry Newbolt | 'Drake's Drum' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Orators, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Look, Stranger! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that... | Philip Larkin | Wystan Hugh Auden | Journal of an Airman, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before the meeting, Larkin had no detailed knowledge of Watkins's work - what he had read, including the newly publis... | Philip Larkin | Vernon Watkins | Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose conten... | Jewish residents of the Gorbals | [n/a] | Die Zeit | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis... | Mr Glasser | [unknown] | [books in English] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis... | Mrs Glasser | [n/a] | [English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis... | Mrs Glasser | [n/a] | Die Zeit | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | Who's Who | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and m... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [announcement of Einstein talk] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [dictionaries] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [books of biography, history, philosophy, etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ... | Mr Glasser | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ... | Mr Glasser | Anthony Trollope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ... | Mr Glasser | [unknown] | [books on politics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly con... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [newspaper reports on Russia] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [acceptance letter from Oxford University] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces... | Rachel | [unknown] | [Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford University] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | letter (in "Nature") | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorw... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [inscriptions at the Bodleian library] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious resea... | Ralph Glasser | John Wilkes | Essay on Woman | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious resea... | Hamish | John Wilkes | Essay on Woman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until ... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the c... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [a girl's diary] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I marvelled that "The Road to Wigan Pier", to me naive, had made such a stir. I could think of nothing in it that was... | Ralph Glasser | George Orwell | Road to Wigan Pier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had worshipped Cole on the printed page, and my first sight of him in the flesh was fittingly magical.' | Ralph Glasser | G.D.H. Cole | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying ... | Ralph Glasser | Lilian Glasser | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tear... | Ralph Glasser | Rachel | [letters from Glasser's aunt] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Father's brief lines were full of a sombre perplexity only too familiar. Indirectly, however, they carried a special ... | Ralph Glasser | Mr Glasser | [letters to his son, Ralph] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explaine... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [Romantic texts and works about Romanticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'. | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [German poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Mademoiselle Fleury that morning I had been struck by some lines in Ronsard's "Sonnets pour Helene", bittersweet... | Ralph Glasser | Pierre Ronsard | Sonnets pour Helene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Towards the end of the war I would receive a letter in her tiny, rounded hand, one of those wartime "pre-mission" let... | Ralph Glasser | Rachel | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'. | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [citation for bravery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In all seriousness he [Victor Gollancz] could flaunt a prophetic grandeur, or perhaps simply uncontrolled showmanship... | Ralph Glasser | Victor Gollancz | "Let my people go": some practical proposals for dealing with Hitler's massacre of the Jews | |
| 1900-1945 | 'An exception [to the intellectual triviality Glasser found at Oxford], far from generously recognised, was R.G. Colli... | Ralph Glasser | R.G. Collingwood | Speculum Mentis, or the Map of Knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in ... | | [n/a] | [Intelligence lists of communists] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, s... | Ralph Glasser | [n/a] | [Oxford Finals Class Lists] | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'When fairly launched into a subject, especially in a formal lecture in his favourite field, French political thought,... | Ralph Glasser | Harold Joseph Laski | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Writing on liberty, arguing that its attainment was an inborn duty, he said that in order to divine its proper use on... | Ralph Glasser | Harold Joseph Laski | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical... | Mr Glasser | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse ... | Ralph Glasser | [unknown] | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “S... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Twice-Told Tales | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Blithedale Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Charles Lamb | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Golden Legend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Margaret De Quincey | William Wordsworth | "She Was a Phantom of Delight" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I
read over the other day a... | Thomas De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones
had written it, they... | Emily De Quincey | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones
had written it, they... | Emily De Quincey | John Greenleaf Whittier | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned
in returning to America a... | Emily De Quincey | Henry Hope Reed | Lectures on History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrated by Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned
in returning to America a... | Emily De Quincey | Henry Hope Reed | Lectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Convert (?) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new storie... | Joseph Conrad | Richard` Garnett | The Twilight of the Gods and Other tales | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occ... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Stories from De Maupassant [English title] | Manuscript: Proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of his poem Waterloo she writes:
"These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Field of Waterloo, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; adm... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my own day all mothers strictly forbade their daughters to read Rousseau's "Nouvelle Heloise", and all daughters, ... | | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Ben Jonson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | George Crabbe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Caroline Dawson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in t... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read o... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [history books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Marmion | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the same amusement [of secret knowledge about Scott's authorship] I now sit by the fire, sucking in the sagaciou... | | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | acquaintances of Louisa Stuart | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | acquaintances of Louisa Stuart | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Mrs Weddell | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Mrs Weddell | Daniel Defoe | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the ... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent volume. Last time I saw you , you spoke of it slightlingly-and this only adds to my envy of your astound... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells | Twelve Stories and a Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] ... | Joseph Conrad | (Enoch) Arnold Bennett | Leonora | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention... | Joseph Conrad | Kazimierz Waliszewski | Un cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph Conrad | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his p... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edward) D.(Dene) Morel | The Congo Slave State. | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject ... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me ... | Joseph Conrad | J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie | The Little White Bird | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted ... | Joseph Conrad | Kazimierz Waliszewski | Ivan le Terrible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arrived: A book with a Chinese title of Scandinavian authorship translated by Mrs Reynolds. I am touched and pleased ... | Joseph Conrad | Henri Jean François Borel | Wu Wei:A Phantasy Based on the Philosophy of Lao-Tse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratify... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Lewins | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s... | Joseph Conrad | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson | The London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life ed. H.S.Salt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s... | Joseph Conrad | W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson
'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Waverley novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read one after another ... The Fortunes of Nigel.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | The Fortunes fo Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Waverley is so poor and dull.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo... | Virginia Woolf | Margaret Symonds | Days Spent on a Doge's Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | Lewis Melville | The Thackeray Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | F. G. Kitton | The Dickens Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | #Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Victor Hugo | various romances | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have... | Cornelia Sorabji | Ruffini | Dr Antonio | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | | Criminal Digest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Richard Sorabji | Lytton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Look at the 19th Century for October. It has an article in by me which the Editor has called “Stray Thoughts of an... | | Cornelia Sorabji | 'Stray Thoughts of an Indian Girl | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way the Mother gave him some of Miss Sorabji to read and he finds it as I did, very good – “splendid” he... | Rudyard Kipling | Cornelia Sorabji | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial se... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mr Morritt | [account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Bride of Lammermoor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of the... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Legend of Montrose, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Thomas Gray | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an India... | E. M. Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an India... | E. M. Forster | E. William Knighton | The Private Life of an Eastern King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913:
'It's a good little sketch I think, and shows you can do a catastrop... | E. M. Forster | Forrest Reid | unidentified 'sketch' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913:
'We are here [Harrogate] till the 10th [...] It has been a dull mont... | E. M. Forster | Pierre Louys | Byblis changee en fontaine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Adam Cramb | Germany and England | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'White Paper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a n... | Edward Morgan Forster | | notice on wartime safety measures | Print: ?poster ('notice') |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Edward Carpenter | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Roger Fry | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Sydney Waterlow | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | | Quarterly Review [articles on classics] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Hookham Frere | Quarterly Review [burlesque poetry] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the lang... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Sydney, Lady Morgan | Woman: or, Ida of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [description of the Court of Haiti] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa Clinton | | [description of Court of Haiti] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa Clinton | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Holroyd | [unknown] | [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not what Prince Leopold will say to it [the character of Athelstane]. He had a bad cold and Sir Robert Gardine... | Robert Gardiner | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no on... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | [Waverley Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Anne Racliffe | [Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Lucy Aikin | Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Mrs Scott | Lucy Aikin | Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa Clinton | Walter Scott | [Waverley Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Stanley | [a speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Stanley | [a speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jeremy Taylor | Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a desig... | Louisa Clinton | [n/a] | Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, t... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Galt | Ayrshire Legatees, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki... | Mrs Scott | Walter Scott | [Waverley Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki... | | Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael | Dix Années d'exil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Hart Milman | Martyr of Antioch, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | [law books] | Print: Book, Law books in the plural. |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Emmanuel Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations o the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for th... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Galt | Entail, The, or The Lairds Of Grippy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have begun "Peveril", but not gone far in it. It is read aloud, and, [italics] entre nous [end italics], ill-read,... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very be... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Wandering Willie's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Frederick Walker. In Memoriam. | Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof. |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] | [memorial on grave] | Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate. |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of... | John Drummond Erskine | Niccolo Machiavelli | The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans .... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mary Shelley | Last Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Maria Edgeworth | [Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in "Inheritance", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?' | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Susan Ferrier | Inheritance, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Gilbert White | Natural History of Selborne, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My mind was early formed (or half formed) by the old exploded "Spectator", and Addison's assertion that he had seen "... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Courier, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Chancery Case] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the new... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure full... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming works by Scott] | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | A.K. | [fragments, including something in French] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | George Anne Bellamy | Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Sophia Baddeley | Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Marie-Jeanne Roland | Memoirs of Madame Roland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Fielding | History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I had a letter from [Mrs Scott] written with characteristic eagerness about "Trevelyan".' | Mrs Scott | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, wr... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevel... | | [n/a] | Court Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your first inst[alment] [of "Kipps"] in the PMM [Pall Mall Magazine] is jolly good. It turns up [sic] remarkably well... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | Kipps:The Story of a Simple Soul | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface ... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat do... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Progress and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The White Peacock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Arthur Balfour | 'What Our Fleet Has Done' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | Count Ernst von Reventlow | 'A Year of Naval Warfare' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t... | Frank Vicary | Dickinson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t... | Frank Vicary | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss... | Frank Vicary | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | The Meaning of Good | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss... | Frank Vicary | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Letters from John Chinaman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Bombardment' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Rousbrugge' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'Missionary magazine' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Laura Mary Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Milton | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Bridges, ed. | [possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Emil Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917:
'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Feet of the Young Men | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benedict Spinoza | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Middle Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Baptiste Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Claudel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | Translations from Lucretius | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).' | Florence Barger | Edward Carpenter | My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918:
'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Sense of the Past | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Graves | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918:
'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'Kenneth' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'The Trial of Witches' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 February 1920:
'Mother is reading "The Arrow of Lead" as she calls it, and fi... | Alice Clara Forster | Joseph Conrad | The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he... | Mrs Williams | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he... | | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Lady [anon] | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Mr Ap Rees | Samuel Foote | [a farce] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevelyan and other books] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the des... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the des... | Louisa Clinton | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Francois Rene de Chateaubriand | Moïse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in anoth... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [legal briefs] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natur... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Day | Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncout... | Anne Romilly | Germaine de Stael | Corinne, or Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first ar... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [letter to Madame de Stael] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to hi... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Thomson | Annals of Philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourab... | Samuel Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n... | Samuel Romilly | [unknown] | [novel by a lady novelist] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [novel by a lady novelist] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ... | Maria Edgeworth | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the libe... | Anne Romilly | Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the lib... | Anne Romilly | Gallois | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the lib... | Samuel Romilly | Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | elder children of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [various books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | a son of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | a son of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes whic... | children of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Philanthropist, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest f... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Samuel Romilly | [speech on the Slave Trade] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Romilly | [speech on the Slave Trade] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] c... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | James Mackintosh | Edinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De l'Allemagne'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to... | Maria Edgeworth | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much ... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their ... | two sons of Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [children's books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their ... | | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, ... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [title page of a children's book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition fro... | Anne Romilly | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | [a narrative] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Domenico Comparetti | Vergileo nel Medio Evo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Paul Bourget | Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Alexandre Dumas | Nouveaux Entre'actes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Theodule Ribot | Les Maladies de la Volonte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Gustave Flaubert | Correspondance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Charles Arthur Mercier | Sanity and Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Emile Zola | La Fortune des Rougon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Emile Zola | Son Excellence Eugene Rougon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Pierre Loti | Le Roman d'un Enfant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense... | Edith Sitwell | Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler) | The Young and the Evil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offe... | Edith Sitwell | Ronald Bottrall | Festival of Fire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, f... | Edith Sitwell | Walter Greenwood | Love on the Dole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, f... | Edith Sitwell | Walter Greenwood | His Worship the Mayor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven kno... | Edith Sitwell | Friedrich Engels | Conditions of the Working Classess in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterr... | James Mackintosh | Germaine de Stael | [writings about England, never published as 'De L'Angleterre', as originally planned] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but t... | Anne Romilly | Albert Jean Michel de Rocca | Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but t... | Sophie Romilly | Albert Jean Michel de Rocca | Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | James Mackintosh | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | James Mackintosh | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | James Mackintosh | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | Anne Romilly | Mary Brunton | Discipline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | Anne Romilly | Albert Jean Michel de Rocca | Mémoires Sur La Guerre Des Français En Espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | Eugene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]".... | Anne Romilly | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opi... | Anne Romilly | August Wilhelm von Schlegel | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been much instructed by the readings on poetry and long for the Irish Tales'. | Romilly Family | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Readings on poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Samuel Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Samuel Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla... | Anne Romilly | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | [children's plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Old Poz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society |
| 1800-1849 | 'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society |
| 1800-1849 | 'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | [unknown] | [Reports on Mendicity] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ... | Anne Romilly | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [unidentified novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be t... | Anne Romilly | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be t... | Mr Whishaw | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons in... | Anne Romilly | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Anne Romilly | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Anne Romilly | | [newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Mr Edgeworth | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su... | Anne Romilly | Jane Haldimand Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su... | James Mansfield | Jane Haldimand Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Manfred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Darkness | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Samuel Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A... | | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t... | Anne Romilly | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [letters to his wife Harriet] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo... | Anne Romilly | Jeremy Bentham | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo... | Samuel Romilly | Jeremy Bentham | Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to thi... | Samuel Romilly | James Mill | History of British India, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad... | Anne Romilly | Sydney Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outline... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Notes on the Firth | Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outline... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits. | Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquis... | Ralph Glasser | Olivia Manning | Balkan Trilogy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There, on warm weekend days, I would sit and read in a peaceful arbour where trees and shrubbery muffled the noise of... | Ralph Glasser | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been thinking about Eliot and Jew hatred - a compassionate man one would say, cultured, civilised? and yet he ... | Bill Werner | Thomas Stearns Eliot | 'Burbank' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as... | Ralph Glasser | Luigi Illica | [libretto of 'La Boheme] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as... | Ralph Glasser | Henry Murger | Scenes de la Vie de Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim vol... | Ralph Glasser | Tom | Eyes of Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [papers left at his death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | John Hawkins | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is, in the B. Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I ... | James Boswell | Dr Warburton | [Letter to Thomas Birch] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, thou... | Dr Warburton | John Toland | Life of John Milton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, thou... | Dr Warburton | Pierre Desmaiseaux | La vie de Boileau-Despréaux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a... | James Boswell | William Mason | Memoirs of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch... | James Boswell | William Mason | [Memoir of William Whitehead] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When he [Johnson] was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs Johnson one morning put the common prayer-bo... | Samuel Johnson | | Book of Common Prayer [collect for the day] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He to... | Samuel Johnson | | [reading lessons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He to... | Dame Oliver | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes conce... | Samuel Johnson | | [romances of chivalry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes conce... | Samuel Johnson | Melchor de Ortega | Felixmarte de Hircania | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclin... | Samuel Johnson | Petrarch | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse... | Samuel Johnson | | [various works of classics and literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse... | Samuel Johnson | Anacreon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse... | Samuel Johnson | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he beha... | Samuel Johnson | Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Wh... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Allestree | Whole Duty of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The church in Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches... | Samuel Johnson | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books gener... | Samuel Johnson | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Euripides | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Ars Poetica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Theocritus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Juvenal | Tenth Satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda of his reading] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[quotation from Johnson's 'Life of Edmund Smith', regarding Gilbert Walmsley] His studies had been so various, that I... | Gilbert Walmsley | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, thou... | Samuel Johnson | Jeronimo Lobo | Voyage to Abyssinia , A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of... | Samuel Johnson | | [Turkish History] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | Mr Langton | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | George III | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Man... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | annotations | Manuscript: Letter, annotations |
| 1850-1899 | 'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | The History of a Pavement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | [second series of] Hospital Poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii]
'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Frances Burney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Mol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Percy Lubbock | The Craft of Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Vanbrugh | The Provok'd Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...]
'[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | The Sailor's Return | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of re... | Thomas Tryon | [unknown] | [reading primer] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I... | Thomas Tryon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad ta... | Thomas Tryon | [unknown] | [books on astrology] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.' | Thomas Tryon | [unknown] | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment' | Thomas Tryon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertai... | Katherine Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Hamilton | Blind Harry's Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Shakespeare | [History Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [A history of England] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete p... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [scholastic divinity essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [books chosen by Mrs Marshall] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Mrs Marshall | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella S... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [Scottish history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with n... | Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that s... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted ... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Gentleman's Magazine, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he aft... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he aft... | Peter Garrick | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The S... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Scot's Magazine, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a ... | John Douglas | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejud... | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Samuel Johnson | Epitaph on Philips, a Musician | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | ['The Italian' - unknown text] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpe... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Birch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshir... | Joshua Reynolds | Samuel Johnson | Life of Savage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript,... | Dr Taylor | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Taylor told me, that Johnson sent his [italics] Plan [end italics; for Johnson's dictionary] to him in manuscript,... | William Whitehead | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[extract of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Dr Birch] I have just now seen the specimen of Mr Johnson's dictionar... | John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [sources for his Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds ... | James Boswell | Robert Dodsley | Preceptor, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | David Garrick | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | David Garrick | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal. | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in whi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [notes collected for periodical articles] | Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Johnson, in whose judgement and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of "The Rambler" ... | Elizabeth Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Ram... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicis... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | Edward Young | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to disting... | James Boswell | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [account given to him by Mrs Williams] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Robert Dodsley | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was c... | Henry Dundas | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings,... | James Boswell | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Philosophical works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Warton | Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [books of Northern literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso... | Mr Wise | Mr Wise | History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a num... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Barclay | Ship of Fools, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal":
"[it... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda for a projected literary journal] | Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, th... | Thomas Birch | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | [Plan for his dictionary] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when... | Charles Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [essays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | [n/a] | The Universal Visitor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Harrison | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Rowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate... | Samuel Johnson | Isaac Watts | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Madden | Boulter's Monument | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Idler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics. | Edward Morgan Forster | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927):
'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Letter to Lytton Strachey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only ... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. B. Priestley | article on E. M. Forster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. E. Wortham | Oscar Browning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927:
'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself,
I love me,... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'I love me' (song lyric) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. M. Forster | short stories | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | Le Desert de l'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | La Pharisienne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, at... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | Stars and Atoms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Deloney | The Gentle Craft part II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N... | Edward Morgan Forster | Horace Walpole | Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more p... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | The Nature of the Physical World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929):
'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as the... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. N. Whitehead | Science and the Modern World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz | The Kalahari and its Native Races | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become... | Edward Morgan Forster | T. S. Eliot | 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anton Chekhov | 'Uprooted' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Vaughan | 'Quickness' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. L. Lucas | 'The Graces' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking a... | Edward Morgan Forster | Cyril Connolly | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit
'runs an epigram of Maurois w... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Maurois | Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardy... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy... | Alfred Edward Housman | [unknown] | [book on astronomy] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy... | Alfred Edward Housman | John Lempriere | Bibliotheca Classica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Somewhat later [than his discovery of Lempriere at 8] another chance discovery which may well have been formative was... | Alfred Edward Housman | J.E Bode | Ballads from Herodotus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Lucy Housman | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Lucy Housman | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Lucy Housman | Thomas Moore | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Edward Housman | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Housman family | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren... | Mr Foote | [unknown] | [a French magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren... | Mr Murphy | [unknown] | [a French magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren... | Mr Murphy | [n/a] | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he af... | James Boswell | Thomas Sheridan | Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | James Boswell | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in so... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Hugh Blair | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: b... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | [Odes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no... | Samuel Johnson | William Whitehead | [poem on Garrick] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no... | James Boswell | William Whitehead | [poem on Garrick] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, I do not think Gray a first-rate poet. He has not a bold imagination, nor much command of words. The obscurity i... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry, observing, that "it had a temporary currency, only from its auda... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Churchill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | James Boswell | Charles Churchill | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | James Boswell | Charles Churchill | Prophecy of Famine, The. A Scots Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz.... | Samuel Johnson | Bonnell Thornton | Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the hum-strum or hurdy-gurdy, &c | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Connoisseur, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | World, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thi... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Connoisseur, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Paley | Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear man... | James Lackington | Robert Jenkin | Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Year of Trafalgar"] arrived. Some day I will bring it to London for you to write your name and mine ... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Newbolt | The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out ... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | 'The Icelandic Sagas' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.' | Joseph Conrad | Henry Newbolt | The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] th... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Sur la pierre blanche | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in yo... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Abeille: conte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in yo... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid.
"'The Queen is now aslee... | anon [a cook] | | evening paper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to... | Vera Brittain | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching i... | Vera Brittain | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and ... | Vera Brittain | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'. | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | 'A Farewell' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. E. Housman | Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Trois Discours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | The Conquest of Granada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | An Essay of Heroic Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Rodogune | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Preface, The Maiden Queen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Life of [Richard] Savage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Plan [for Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | remarks on Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Raleigh, ed. | Johnson on Shakespare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | The Battle of the Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments... | Edward Morgan Forster | Nicolas Boileau | L'Art Poetique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e... | Edward Morgan Forster | Dante Alighieri | De Vulgari Eloquentia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand. |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Letters of Henry James (vol.I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they m... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Aubrey | The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Des Singularites de la Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical In... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles F. Richardson | 'Critical Introduction' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric':
'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous w... | Samuel Johnson | John Ogilvie | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | Pierre Bayle | Historical and Critical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | John Arbuthnot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple | [letter to Boswell] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | David Dalrymple | Jonathan Swift | [satires] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | Samuel Johnson | Frederick II King of Prussia | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | James Boswell | Frederick II King of Prussia | Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | James Boswell | Frederick II King of Prussia | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure ... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | James Boswell | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost a... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleas... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleas... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that... | Samuel Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that... | Michael Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Buchanan, he said, was a very fine poet; and observed that he was the first who complimented a lady, by ascribing to ... | Samuel Johnson | George Buchanan | Nympha Caledoniae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon anci... | Samuel Johnson | Pomponius Mela | De situ orbis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its auth... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Blacklock | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. I... | James Boswell | Gisbert Japix | Rymelerie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows :
"At church, Oct.—65.
" To avoid all singularity; [italics... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [letter to Johnson from Corsica] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Watson | Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Porteus | Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Addison | Evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Madame de Genlis | Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Butler | Divine Analogy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bentley | Sermons on the Folly of Atheism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Jenkins | Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the additi... | Jane Austen | Edward Cooper | Two Sermons Preached at Wolverhampton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w... | Jane Austen | Henry Austen | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | The Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opi... | James Edward Austen | James Edward Austen | unpublished manuscript story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shi... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished manuscript story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all ... | Jane Austen | Robert Southey | Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr... | James Boswell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr... | James Boswell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on Inequality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [Lowth-Warburton controversy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns... | Samuel Johnson | George, Lord Lyttelton | History of the Life of Henry the Second | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns... | George III of England | [unknown] | [Lowth-Warburton controversy] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill. Johnson answered, he was an ingenious man, but had no veracity; ... | Samuel Johnson | Dr Hill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining L... | Jane Austen | Fanny Knight | Letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not oblige him to read any more. - Have mercy on him and tell him the truth [about the authorship of Austen's nove... | Mr Wildman | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'between reading, chatting and backgammon, we conclude the evening, and usually retire, making the remark, that if we ... | Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Pe... | Charles Hamilton | [n/a] | Hedaya | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and wi... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [oriental literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "T... | Mrs G- | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters of a Hindoo Rajah | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "T... | Mrs G- | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapt... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Print: proof |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [Classical latin works in translation] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [modern works on Classical subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encour... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Cottagers of Glenburnie, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting bo... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | Thomas Secker | Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | [poem - 'Is that Auld Age'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | William Gilpin | Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | Thomas Wilson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Archibald Allison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Paley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | William Gilpin | Sermons preached to a country congregation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in w... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persev... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things hav... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Richard Watson | An Apology for the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evid... | James Lackington | Beilby Porteus | A Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | William Paley | A View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Burges | The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Blaise Pascal | Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Joseph Addison | Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Stephanie de Genlis | Religion considered as the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Robert Jenkin | Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Bishop Horne | Sermons (4vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Samuel Carr | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hugh Blair | Sermons (5 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | John Scott | Christian Life(5 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Augustin Calmet | Dictionary of the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Flavius Josephus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Humphrey Prideaux | The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hannah More | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and... | Samuel Johnson | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ... | | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ... | Reverend Christian | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Voltaire | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He praised Signor Baretti. "His account of Italy is a very entertaining book; and, Sir, I know no man who carries his... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Baretti | Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with Observations on the Mistakes of some Travellers, with Regard to that Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | James Thomson | [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured ... | Dr Douglas | Jonathan Swift | The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured ... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that per... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Samuel Johnson | Matthew Prior | Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Hester Thrale | Matthew Prior | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Hester Thrale | David Garrick | [light verse] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | Absalom and Achitophel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Alexander Pope | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | Joshua Reynolds | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | David Garrick | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Indu Rakshit | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Christopher Isherwood | Mr Norris Changes Trains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi. | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Mardi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | Together | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Malory | Le Morte D'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii:
'And they answered the Ang... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Book of Zechariah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | passages from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde... | Edward Morgan Forster | Abraham Cowley | Essay no. 5 ('The Garden') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both dev... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean de la Bruyere | 'Du Coeur' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literatu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Freville, trans. and ed. | Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Mr Murphy | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Oliver Goldsmith | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Burke | Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at M... | Edward Morgan Forster | Adolf Hitler | address on national art | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Jean-Baptiste Dubos | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Dominique Bouhours | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The ballad of Hardyknute has no great merit, if it be really ancient. People talk of nature. But mere obvious nature ... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw | Hardyknute | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be... | Edward Morgan Forster | V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin | (excerpted) writings on literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber hims... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber hims... | Colley Cibber | Colley Cibber | [an ode] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great kn... | Samuel Johnson | George Buchanan | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "What do you think of Dr. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there are many fine things in ... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | History of the British Expedition to Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a... | James Boswell | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe... | Samuel Johnson | John Bramhall | Discourse of Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe... | Samuel Johnson | South | Sermons on Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benjamin Farington | Science and Politics in the Ancient World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | Walter Harte | History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. M. Cornford | From Religion to Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | ['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call... | Samuel Johnson | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Newton | Sermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple') | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad (books I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | 'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arthur Hugh Clough | Dipsychus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on Napoleon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame... | Edward Morgan Forster | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Dr. Priestley's theological works, he remarked, that they tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settled nothing.... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Priestley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. "That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell ... | Samuel Johnson | George, first Lord Lyttelton | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh... | Samuel Johnson | James MacPherson | 'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Boetius, who was the favourite writer of the middle ages, he said it was very surprising, that upon such ... | Samuel Johnson | Boethius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very ... | Samuel Johnson | Arthur Murphy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was last night at the Club. Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many [italics] fits [end italics]; it is pretty ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Percy | Hermit of Warkworth, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor... | Edward Morgan Forster | R. W. Ketton-Cremer | Horace Walpole: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery':
'"Nor shall your p... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | Sonnets of the Imagination XLII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, beca... | Edward Morgan Forster | Gerald Heard | The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Disappointment of God.
'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disap... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Disappointment of God' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se... | Edward Morgan Forster | Elizabeth Gaskell | Sylvia's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wis... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. A. L. Fisher | A History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul-Louis Courier | 'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Valery | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' imposi... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about li... | Samuel Johnson | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [legal case papers] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [legal case papers] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells... | Samuel Johnson | Henry More | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Drelincourt | Christians Defense against the Fears of Death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ... | James Boswell | Charles Drelincourt | Christians Defense against the Fears of Death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ... | James Boswell | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ... | Samuel Johnson | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'
| James Boswell | [unknown] | [legal trial papers] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | Samuel Johnson | Owen Ruffhead | Life of Alexander Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I... | James Boswell | George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I... | Samuel Johnson | George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | Thomas Erskine | Samuel Richardson | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Paterson | Another Traveller: or Cursory Remarks and Critical Observations made upon a Journey through Part of the Netherlands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Coryat | Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ... | Samuel Johnson | Tacitus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ... | James Boswell | Tacitus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Osborne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Francis Osborne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.' | Samuel Johnson | James Beattie | Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'.
| Samuel Johnson | Pindar | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | James Boswell | | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | Mrs Williams | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | [apology for beating a bookseller] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | Samuel Johnson | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | James Boswell | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, April 8, I sat a good part of the evening with him, but he was very silent. He said, "Burnet's 'History ... | Samuel Johnson | Gilbert Burnet | History of My Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Greek New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n... | James Boswell | [unknown] | [books belonging to Johnson] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson:
"1623. February 1, Sunday. ... | James Boswell | William Laud | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written... | James Boswell | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I rather think, Sir, that Toryism prevails in this reign." Johnson. "I know not why you should think so, Si... | Samuel Johnson | George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton | History of the Life of Henry the Second | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ... | James Elphinstone | [unknown] | [a recently published book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [a recently published book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [manuscript plan for a fable] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Rene Aubert Vertot | Révolutions romains | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | James Boswell | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t... | Samuel Johnson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t... | Samuel Johnson | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good ... | Samuel Johnson | Monsieur Menage | Menagiana Ou Les Bons Mots | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hodgkin | Italy and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Virgil | Aeneid (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940:
'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine]
'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Aug... | Edward Morgan Forster | W. E. H. Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Augustine, Some scattered notes.
'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on t... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | 'On Marriage and Concupiscence' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Michaud | article on Pelagius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Neville Figgis | The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Jerome | Select Letters of St Jerome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall s... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Basil | Letters (vol.II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A Hi... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. A. Wright | A History of Later Greek Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and with... | Edward Morgan Forster | Socrates of Constantinople | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried ou... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. H. Carr | Michael Bakunin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Le Temps Retrouve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Darwin | The Voyage of the Beagle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. P. Wavell | Allenby: Soldier and Statesman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Bruller | Le Silence de la Mer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Giono | 'Prelude de Pan' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Honore de Balzac | Illusions perdues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Gide | Journal | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Stefan George | 'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Baudelaire | 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m... | Edward Morgan Forster | Van Wyck Brooks | The Ordeal of Mark Twain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student]
E. M. Forster transcribes passage op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the ke... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arnold Toynbee | A Study of History (vol I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944):
'On Hydon's top there is a cup
And in that cup there ... | Edward Morgan Forster | | A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bede | Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henri-Frederic Amiel | Fragments d'un Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wander... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Waterton | Wanderings in South America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discover... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Henley | Appendix no. 2 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their [the Tennyson children's] imaginative natures gave them many sources of amusement. One of these lasted a long t... | Tennyson family | Tennyson (family members) | stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Dele... | Alfred Tennyson | Ovid | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Dele... | Alfred Tennyson | | Analecta Graeca Minora | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Dele... | Alfred Tennyson | | Eton Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche:
'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes f... | Mary Turner | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate... | Alfred Tennyson | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Edmund Burke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Francois Rabelais | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Sir William Jones | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Daniel Defoe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | John Bunyan | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | George Louis Leclerc de Buffon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading:
'I remember his tremendous excitement when he got hold o... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Bewick | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading:
'He was always a great reader; and if he went alone he w... | Alfred Tennyson | | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem "The Bridal"]'. | Alfred Tennyson | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called "the lion-like man" and had for him a great respect. It is reported th... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | George Berkeley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Butler | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Jeremy Bentham | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Rene Descartes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Imanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insig... | Arthur Hallam | Rene Descartes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Matthew Arnold told G. L. Craik that when, as a youth, he first read "Timbuctoo" he prophesied the greatness of Tenny... | Matthew Arnold | Alfred Tennyson | Timbuctoo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge on Tennyson's Poems. Chiefly Lyrical (1830):
'"I have not read through all Mr Tennyson's poems, whi... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alfred Tennyson | Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very plea... | Henry and Arthur Hallam | Herodotus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very plea... | Arthur Hallam | David Hartley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very plea... | Arthur Hallam | Buhle | Philosophie Moderne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Go... | Janet Fraser | | Bible - Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Ch... | James Lackington | William Paley | View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Heinrich Heine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Joseph Marie Eugene Sue | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henri Murger | Scenes de la Vie Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Auguste Comte | Cours de Philosophie Positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Alfred de Musset | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Edmond de Goncourt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Walter Savage Landor | Imaginary Conversations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Johann Peter Eckerman | Conversations of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | Margaret Gissing | Friedrich Schiller | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'. | George Gissing | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Paul Charles Joseph Bourget | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Jens Peter Jacobsen | Niels lyhne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Jens Peter Jacobsen | Marie Grube | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Woodlanders, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | Hedda Gabler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to l... | Alfred Tennyson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading ... | Arthur Hallam | Susan Ferrier | Destiny | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading ... | Arthur Hallam | Susan Ferrier | Inheritance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Sir William Blackstone | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Arthur Hallam | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Alfred Tennyson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoye... | Alfred Tennyson | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Merivale [...] wrote to [W. H.] Thompson [...]:
'"Though the least eminent of the Tennysonian Rhapsodists,... | Charles Merivale | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Lotos-Eaters' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson:
'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with s... | Arthur Hallam | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Edward] Fitzgerald writes on "The Lady of Shalott":
'"Well I remember this poem, read to me, before I knew the au... | Edward Fitzgerald | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Lady of Shalott' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield:
'"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propo... | James Montgomery | Alfred Tennyson | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833:
'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time,... | The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | George Sand [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Honore de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Emile Zola | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Ivan Turgenev | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Gustave Flaubert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Guy de Maupassant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Alphonse Daudet | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | J.P. Jacobsen | Niels Lyhne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Frederika Bremer | Hertha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Hippolyte Taine | History of English Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Études et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Paul Bourget | Essais de psychologie contemporaine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Albert Henry Buck | Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | William B. Carpenter | Principles of Mental Physiology, With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Theodule-Armand Ribot | Hérédité: étude psychologique | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Spe... | George Gissing | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Aristophanes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe... | George Gissing | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of t... | James Lackington | anon [Religious Tract Society] | tracts | Print: tracts |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish t... | James Lackington | John Whitehead | The Life of the Rev John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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 W... | James and Mary Lackington | John Whitehead | The Life of the Rev John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson said, I might see the subject [a controversy about the Church of Scotland] well treated in the "Defence of Pl... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Wharton | Defence of Pluralities, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'. | James Boswell | Daines Barrington | [Essay on bird migration] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it... | Samuel Johnson | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Of the Origin and Progress of Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to George Steevens] I thank you for "Neander", but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of him'.
| Samuel Johnson | Joachim Neander | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they a... | Samuel Johnson | Alexander Webster | [census of Scotland] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | David Dalrymple | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I can... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson | When the Devil Was Well. | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica". | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre-Jean Beranger | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was a... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | | Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides. |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is... | James Boswell | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is... | David Dalrymple, lord Hailes | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is... | Samuel Johnson | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull a... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Johnson to Boswell] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".' | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | [Greek Testaments] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | 8th Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | 1st Georgic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to John Hoole] I have returned your play, which you will find underscored with red, where there ... | Samuel Johnson | John Hoole | Cleonice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which cam... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have at last sent back Lord Hailes's sheets, I never think about returning them, ... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate ... | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate ... | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Samuel Johnson | [Latin verses upon Inchkenneth] | Manuscript: Unknown, in latin |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | Dr Orme | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi... | James Boswell | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The observations of my friend Mr. Dempster in a letter written to me, soon after he had read Dr. Johnson's book, are ... | Mr Dempster | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Knox, another native of Scotland, who has since made the same tour, and published an account of it, is equally li... | Mr Knox | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Tytler, the acute and able vindicator of Mary Queen of Scots, in one of his letters to Mr. James Elphinstone, pub... | Mr Tytler | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Aimard | unidentified novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces... | Vera Brittain | Mary Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as ... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | Woman and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was p... | Vera Brittain | Oscar Wilde | plays | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowsk... | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Romola | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philip Gilbert Hamerton | Art Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me... | Vera Brittain | Andrew Lang | Andrew Lang's Fairy Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:' | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetr... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary ve... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | New Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Bancroft | History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the American Continent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to disc... | Vera Brittain | Plato | 'Apologia' and 'Meno' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the de... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Those famous sonnets, brought into prominence by the poet's death on the eve of the Dardanelles campaign, were then o... | Vera Brittain | Rupert Brooke | 1914 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834:
'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them,... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 'Highland sonnets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834:
'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them,... | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 'The Egyptian Maid, or, The Romance of the Water Lily' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Jean Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Jean Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Moliere | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Maurice | Eustace Conway | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | John Sterling | Arthur Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836]
... | Emily Sellwood | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Morte d'Arthur' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Day-Dream' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Lord of Burleigh' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Dora' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Gardener's Daughter' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'. | Alfred Tennyson | Pringle | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'. | Alfred Tennyson | Lyell | 'Geology' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839):
'I am housed at Mr Wildman's, an old friend of mine in these parts: he an... | Alfred Tennyson | | 'anecdotes of Methodist ministers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839):
'I took up this morning an unhappy book of English verse by a Welshman, a... | Alfred Tennyson | | 'book of English verse by a Welshman' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Edmund Lushington writes]
'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mos... | Edmund Lushington | Alfred Tennyson | 'In Memoriam' verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [The Dean of Westminster writes]
'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the Septemb... | Julius Hare | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Samuel Rogers to Alfred Tennyson, 17 August 1842:
'Every day I have resolved to write and tell you with what deligh... | Samuel Rogers | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842:
'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of th... | Thomas Carlyle | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson | Leigh Hunt | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o... | Savile Morton and Alfred Tennyson | Lady Georgiana Fullerton | Ellen Middleton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson to Hallam Tennyson, on his childhood hypochondria:
'I used, from having early read in my father's l... | Alfred Tennyson | | 'medical books' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]:
'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he c... | Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working people | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848:
'14th [June]. Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [sic].' | Alfred Tennyson | Sophocles | Oedipus Coloneus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848:
'19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.' | Alfred Tennyson | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From 'private diary' of 'Mrs Rundle Charles, who was then Miss Rundle,' on visit from Tennyson at Upland, her uncle's ... | Alfred Tennyson | Miss Rundle | poem on Italy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December... | Samuel Bamford | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Sleeping Beauty' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson to 'Miss Holloway (of Spilsby)', 'about her cousin Miss Jean Ingelow's poems, A Rhyming Chronicle of I... | Alfred Tennyson | Jean Ingelow | A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aubrey de Vere on Tennyson's second visit to Ireland, as his guest, during 1848:
'In the evenings he had vocal musi... | Alfred Tennyson | Crabbe | 'A Sorrowful Tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Alfred Tennyson | Daniel O'Connell | History of Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Bewicke Blackburne | Thomas Carlyle | Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Bewicke Blackburne | Thomas Carlyle | 'Frederick' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891:
'"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasan... | Bewicke Blackburne | Thomas Carlyle | Latter Days | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850:
'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred suri... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | stanzas from In Memoriam | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850:
'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred suri... | Aubrey de Vere | Alfred Tennyson | stanzas from In Memoriam | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883:
'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing on... | Alfred Tennyson | Ovid | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable w... | Alfred Tennyson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable w... | Alfred Tennyson | | works on Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable w... | Alfred Tennyson | | philosophical texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam:
'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not... | Henry Hallam | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'. | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Charles Kingsley | Alton Locke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to his wife Emily, 13 July 1852:
'I am reading lots of novels. The worst is they do not last longer... | Alfred Tennyson | | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1852 my father and mother went on a visit to one of his old College friends, Mr Rashdall the clergyman of Ma... | Alfred Tennyson | Dr Wordsworth | Apocalypse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him.... | Alfred Tennyson | Layard | Nineveh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him.... | Alfred Tennyson | Herschel | 'Astronomy' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to ... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the tot... | Vera Brittain | various | The Times History of the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac": | Vera Brittain | W. E. Henley | Bric-a-Brac | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where sur... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competiti... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mys... | Vera Brittain | Johan August Strindberg | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine... | Vera Brittain | Robert Hugh Benson | Vexilla Regis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing acco... | Vera Brittain | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.' | Vera Brittain | | the 'Star' newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from Engl... | Vera Brittain | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852:
'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] ... | Henry Taylor | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853):
'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable.... | Alfred Tennyson | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some days we [Tennyson children] went flower-hunting, and on our return home, if the flower was unknown, he [Alfred T... | Alfred Tennyson | Baxter | Flowering Plants | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.' | Alfred Tennyson | Grimm | Fairy Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to John Forster, 29 March 1854:
'I understand from Archibald Peel that you are aggrieved at my not ... | Alfred Tennyson | | Persian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife ... | Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere | Coventry Patmore | The Angel in the House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | Aeneid VI | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | 'description of Hades' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred Tennyson | Whewell | Plurality of Worlds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aene... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When Millais left, my parents read together Souvestre's account of the Bretons. The fact that their most popular nati... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Souvestre | 'account of the Bretons' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On Dec 2nd [1854], he [Tennyson] wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes, after reading the descript... | Alfred Tennyson | | account of Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusa... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | Hylas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusa... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | The Island of Cos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusa... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | The Syracusan Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On Jan. 10th 1855 my father had "finished, and read out, several lyrics of Maud.'" | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud (sections) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just fin... | Alfred Tennyson | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just fin... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Helena | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Tennyson's journal of 1855: 'October 1st. [...] I read "Maud" to five or six people at the Brownings (on Sept. 28... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Henry Hallam | 'History' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Thomas Carlyle | Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: i... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | [article on Montaigne] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Patriot, The | |
| 1700-1799 | '[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph... | Joseph Towers | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found his " Journey" the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be. At one of... | William Murray, First Earl Mansfield | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Drapier's Letters, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | Plan for the Improvement of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its author with a gold medal. Some... | Samuel Johnson | John Home | Douglas, A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its authour with a gold medal. Som... | Thomas Sheridan | John Home | Douglas, A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sal... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a pi... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Man of Property | Manuscript: presumably copy of MS sent for publication, or the page proofs, since book was publsihed on 23 March 1906 |
| 1900-1945 | 'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...]... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Fifth Queen and how she came to court | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Ford's ] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.' | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Heart of the Country:A Survey of Modern Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Wanted - Schooling in Fiction | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own tas... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | In the Days of the Comet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart.He has understood a heap of fundamentally u... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | The Future in America: A search after realities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of ... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | The Breaking Point | Print: unclear whether MS or printed playscript |
| 1850-1899 | 'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Carlyle | Essay on Burns | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have... | Joseph Conrad | Théophile Gautier | Emaux et Camées | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | George Colman | Two Odes: To Obscurity and To Oblivion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath... | Samuel Johnson | [unknown] | [verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South... | James Boswell | Thomas Campbell | Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had li... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | Careless Husband, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Twiss | Travels through Portugal and Spain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | John George Keysler | Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville | Travels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, but especially Italy, with maps | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've g... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | His People | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Remarks on Several Parts of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Pococke | Description of the East and Some other Countries, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ... | Samuel Johnson | John Scott | [Elegies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ... | James Boswell | John Scott | [Elegies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands... | James Boswell | [n/a] | [various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked of Isaac Walton's "Lives", which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's "Life", he said, was the ... | Samuel Johnson | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did g... | Joseph Conrad | Herman Melville | Moby Dick or The Whale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can di... | Joseph Conrad | Paul Gruyer | Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by your... | Joseph Conrad | Jessie Conrad | A handbook of Cookery for a Small House | Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Country House | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was here solaced with an elegant entertainment, a very accomplished family, and much good company; among whom... | Mr Harris | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay... | Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry | John Gay | Beggar's Opera, The | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. T... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The [Roger de Coverley essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die... | Samuel Johnson | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Joy | Print: probably a playscript |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Samuel Johnson | Charles-Jean-François Henault | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read Hueffer's portrait of Mr John Galsworthy several times. It is interesting mostly as a portrait of Mr Hueffe... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | [article on Galsworthy] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | anon. | Speculum humanae Salvationis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,... | Samuel Johnson | [n/a] | Durandi Sanctuarium | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Giovanni Boccacio | [tales from the 'Decameron'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Petrarch | [unknown oration] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland | [unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | [preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Vol 7
On the Griphi and Impromptus
(quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small... | Frances Hamilton | Abbot Barthelemu | Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Jean François Henault | Abrege chronologique de l'histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book I have a high opinion of' | Frances Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan.
N.B. a rebellious book.' | Frances Hamilton | D O'Bryan | The Government of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation.... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated... | Samuel Johnson | Jason de Nores | [edition of Horace with commentary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Bentley | [edition of Horace with commentary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient ... | Robert Dodsley | George Lyttelton, First Baron Lyttelton | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient ... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Political Survey of Great Britain, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel... | Samuel Johnson | Laurence Sterne | Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel... | James Boswell | Giuseppe Baretti | [unidentified 'Dialogues'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That ingenious and elegant gentleman's [Shenstone's] opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves,... | William Shenstone | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Samuel Johnson | John Dyer | Fleece, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | Poetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A; and of the poems of Sulpicia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | James Boswell | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Bennet Langton | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | James Grainger | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson ... | James Boswell | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson ... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any b... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Nelson | Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any b... | Samuel Johnson | Joseph Holden Pott | [sermons on church holidays] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap... | James Boswell | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like ... | Samuel Johnson | Francisco de Morais | Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At Leicester we read in the newspapers that Dr James was dead'.
| Samuel Johnson and James Boswell | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo'... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, i... | Mr Maclaurin | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in so... | Samuel Johnson | George Cheyne | English Malady, The: or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in so... | Samuel Johnson | George Cheyne | Essay on Health and Long Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Joseph Simpson] wrote a tragedy on the story of Leonidas, entitled "The Patriot". He read it to a company of lawy... | Joseph Simpson | Joseph Simpson | Patriot, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S... | Mr Murphy | Abraham Cowley | Selected Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S... | Samuel Johnson | Abraham Cowley | Selected Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Dying Christian to his Soul, The' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Mr Murphy | Thomas Gray | [Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Mr Murphy | Thomas Gray | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | [Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | Mark Akenside | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He ment... | Samuel Johnson | | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He ment... | Samuel Johnson | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of "The Spectator", he said, "It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers, in the half of t... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Grove | 'Novelty' [essay in The Spectator] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His faul... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in... | Robert Dodsley | John Dryden | 'Ode on St Cecilia's Day' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in... | Robert Dodsley | Ibbot | 'Fit of the Spleen, A' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] You may find wit and humour in verse, and yet no poetry. "Hudibras" has a profusion of these; yet it ... | Samuel Johnson | Ibbot | 'Fit of the Spleen, A' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th... | James Boswell | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said, he wished to see John Dennis's "Critical Works" collected. Davies said they would not sell. Dr. Johnson seem... | Samuel Johnson | John Dennis | [critical works] | Print: Serial / periodical, presumably not in a book if Johnson wanted them to be collected |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'. | Samuel Johnson | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would ha... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I hav... | James Boswell | | [Monthly and Critical Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I hav... | Joshua Reynolds | | [Monthly and Critical Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - bu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | 'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'When last observed, he was studying with apparent zest the exploits of one Rocambole by the late Viscount Ponson of T... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail | Les Exploits de Rocambole | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him;... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Blair | 'The Grave, a Poem' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him;... | James Boswell | Robert Blair | 'The Grave, a Poem' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ... | James Boswell | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ... | George Catcot | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonder... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] The little volumes entitled "Respublicae", which are very well done, were a bookseller's work'.
| Samuel Johnson | | Respublicae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by e... | James Boswell | Francis Hutcheson | System of Moral Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the imm... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Sharp | Letters from Italy, describing the Customs and Manners of that Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it ... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | William Lowth | [biblical commentaries - old testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick | [biblical commentaries - old testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Hammond | A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involve... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [a legal argument] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | James Boswell | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | James Boswell | Colley Cibber | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, ... | Samuel Johnson | Colley Cibber | [an Ode] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Henc... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | An English Girl | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Ars poetica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | John Wilkes | Horace | Ars poetica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | John Wilkes | James Boswell | [notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I rea... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in ... | Joseph Conrad | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells | The War in the Air | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read M. Auguste.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Monsieur Auguste | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Un crime inconnu | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Les Damnes de Java | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating eff... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Island Pharisees | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having complained that he was suffering from melancholy, Johnson wrote] 'Read Cheyne's "English Malady"; but... | Samuel Johnson | George Cheyne | English Malady, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a... | Samuel Johnson | | [legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has... | Samuel Johnson | James Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has... | James Boswell | James Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a c... | Samuel Johnson | Xenophon | Oeconomicus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph:
"I h... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [a sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Sco... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [paper on an aspect of Scottish law] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | James Boswell | An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have re... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [A Sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'One Shaw, who seems a modest and a decent man, has written an Erse Grammar, which a very learned Highlander, Macbean,... | Mr Macbean | William Shaw | [Erse Grammar] | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last yea... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Our worthy friend Thrale's death having appeared in the newspapers, and been afterwa... | James Boswell | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' | James Boswell | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Memoirs and Last Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderf... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact en... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Leland | History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Theophilus Cibber | Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Patrick Murdoch | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | anon. | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | | Biographia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | | Biographical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him... | James Boswell | David Hume | My Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'. | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Edmund Burke | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Mr Jackson | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Mr Jones | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for Dr Dodd] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for cleme... | Samuel Johnson | William Dodd | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | [imitations of Horace] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | 'Inscription in a Summer house' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Andrew Erskine | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Warton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, howeve... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an ac... | Samuel Johnson | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an ac... | James Boswell | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see ... | James Boswell | Thomas Arnold | Observations on Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. ... | James Boswell | George Forster | Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. ... | Samuel Johnson | George Forster | Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for John Taylor] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | John Taylor | Sermons left for publication by the Reverend John Taylor LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | John Taylor | John Taylor | [sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] 'Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth-day Odes, a long time before it was wanted. I ... | Colley Cibber | Colley Cibber | [birthday Ode] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the com... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Burke | Letter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Various | [Texts by or about 15th-century French literary and historical figures] | Print: Probably books and articles. |
| 1700-1799 | 'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immedi... | James Boswell | Robert Plott | Natural History of Staffordshire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | James Boswell | Gilbert Burnet | Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | Samuel Johnson | Gilbert Burnet | Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | Samuel Johnson | John Wilmot, Lord Rochester | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | John Taylor | John Wilmot, Lord Rochester | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | James Boswell | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovel... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | At the Land's End of France. | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | Samuel Johnson | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compili... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | James Boswell | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | William Warburton | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He praised Grainger's "Ode on Solitude", in Dodsley's "Collection", and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:-
... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | 'Ode on Solitude' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intent... | Vera Brittain | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Serial / periodical, magazines |
| 1900-1945 | 'The letter began with a keen criticism of Robert Service's "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", which had just been sent out ... | Victor unknown | Robert Service | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a... | James Boswell | John Ranby | Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade | |
| 1700-1799 | I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a... | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke | James Steuart | Dirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of ... | James Boswell | Florentius Volusenus [pseud.] | De Animi Tranquillitate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening o... | James Boswell | | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founde... | James Boswell | Robert Sibbald | [manuscript Life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress
before a mirrour, a man adjusts h... | James Boswell | Francis Atterbury | [Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "I have been reading Thicknesse's Travels, which I think are entertaining." Boswell. "What, Sir, a good book... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Thicknesse | Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account... | Mr Fitzherbert | Dr Kennedy | [a tragedy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking u... | Samuel Johnson | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Isles of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Morer | Short Account of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her... | Elizabeth Montagu | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was for a considerable time occupied in reading "Memoires de Fontenelle" leaning and swinging upon the l... | Samuel Johnson | abbe Trublet | Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. de Fontenelle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th... | James Boswell | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Atterbury | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | John Tillotson | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | Robert South | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | Seed | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | John Jortin | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | George Smallridge | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Clarke | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Ogden | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | James Boswell | Samuel Ogden | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery'... | Samuel Johnson | Patrick Delany | Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery'... | Samuel Johnson | John Boyle, 5th earl of Orrery | Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason... | Jonathan Shipley | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Joshua Reynolds | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Bennet Langton | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Charles Fox | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems th... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hardy | In Time of the Breaking of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading ... | Edward Brittain | John Masefield | The Loom of Youth | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, d... | Vera Brittain | Gilbert Frankau | The City of Fear | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly ... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Burns | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Fergusson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | Mr Harris | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | Samuel Johnson | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | David Garrick | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | David Garrick | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Bennet Langton | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Samuel Johnson | William Temple | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if... | Samuel Johnson | Daniel Defoe | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if... | James Boswell | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Dodsley | Collection of Poems by Several Hands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Smith | 'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated char... | Samuel Johnson | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon ... | Samuel Johnson | William Dodd | Thoughts in Prison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon ... | James Boswell | William Dodd | Thoughts in Prison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sk... | Thomas Percy | Thomas Pennant | Tour in Scotland in 1769, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sk... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Pennant | Tour in Scotland in 1769, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own v... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Pennant | Tour in Scotland in 1769 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horr... | Samuel Johnson | Niels Horebow | Natural history of Iceland, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the late Revolution in Sweden", and seemed t... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Sheridan | History of the late revolution in Sweden , A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me... | Edith Sitwell | E M Forster | Alexandria: A History and Guide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That wonderful edition of Pope has appeared: and I can never thank you enough. You cannot know what a delight it is t... | Edith Sitwell | Alexander Pope | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I comforted myself last night when I couldn't sleep, by reading those truly wonderful passages about the shells and s... | Edith Sitwell | Sacheverall Sitwell | Sacred and Profane Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari:
'"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, on... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ... | Alfred Tennyson | anon | 12-canto poem on battle of Waterloo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ... | anon | | texts used in teaching self to read | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855:
'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, ... | Henry Taylor | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'When Fanny Kemble heard that my father read his "Maud" finely, she wrote: "I do not think any reading of Tennyson's c... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Curse of Boadicea | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Mrs Vyner, a stranger,' to Alfred Tennyson, from River, New South Wales, 1855:
'I fancy a poet's heart must be so ... | Mrs Vyner | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymr... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | | Hanes Cymru | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymr... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | | Mabinogion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymr... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | | Llywarch Hen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In April [1857] a report reached us that old Tom Moore was dying. A friend writes: "This darling old poet is only jus... | Thomas Moore | Alfred Tennyson | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's coll... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was certainly a keen student of literature, as can be seen from some 1907-8 exercise books which show him working ... | Wilfred Owen | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no... | Wilfred Owen | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no... | Wilfred Owen | John Keats | 'Lamia' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, no... | Wilfred Owen | Sidney Colvin | Life Of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [Elizabethan and Medieval Poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [literary biographies] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [French books and books about French] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h... | Wilfred Owen | | [books on history, classics and botany] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a dev... | Wilfred Owen | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the first books in his library are Bibles. The largest is his mother's, who perhaps put it there. Brought up as a dev... | Wilfred Owen | | [Scripture Union notes on the Bible] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow... | Susan Owen | | [light novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow... | Susan Owen | John Oxenham [pseud.] | [light novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | | [texts on science / religion debate] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | | [a Christian response to Darwinism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Vict... | Wilfred Owen | William Michael Rossetti | Life of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which... | Wilfred Owen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which... | Wilfred Owen | | [biography of Shelley] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guid... | Wilfred Owen | William Michael Rossetti | Life of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translati... | Wilfred Owen | Laurent Tailhade | Poemes elegiaques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Alfred de Vigny | Chatterton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Ernest Renan | Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | La Tentation de saint Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re... | Wilfred Owen | Gustave Flaubert | Salammbo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at... | Vera Brittain | Robert Browning | Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read ... | Vera Brittain | | Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John | Print: official report |
| 1900-1945 | 'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein,"... | Vera Brittain | E.A. Mackintosh | Cha Till Maccruimein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - on... | Vera Brittain | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch... | Vera Brittain | Owen Seaman | The Soul of a Nation | Print: Serial / periodical, magazine |
| 1850-1899 | 'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henri Martin | History of France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Olivier Basselin […]
"On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais
seront-ils les maistres?
Le vin est gu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Olivier Basselin | A Son Nez | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and... | Robert Louis Stevenson | James Walter Ferrier | Forrester | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sis... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Lope de Vega | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | material about Burns | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Comines […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philippe de Commines | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Juvenal des Ursins | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in "The Times" a few weeks after my return that the persist... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the "Observer", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive ... | Vera Brittain | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There followed a quotation from the correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, who described "the Austrian attack on t... | Vera Brittain | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'For years I continued to detest the founder of modern nursing and all that she stood for - a state of mind which pers... | Vera Brittain | Florence Nightingale | Cassandra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa... | Wilfred Owen | Paul Verlaine | 'Mon Reve Familier' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are severa... | Wilfred Owen | | [anthologies of French poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ... | Wilfred Owen | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen seems to have started reading Swinburne in earnest in 1916. When he returned to the front in 1918, knowing that ... | Wilfred Owen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, "Children of Love", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Children of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | William Butler Yeats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | Rabindranath Tagore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Wilfred Owen | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Dean Howells | Undoscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Hill Burton | History of the Reign of Queen Anne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attributi... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Hugh Clough | Amours de Voyage | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Strange Meetings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | | Georgian Poetry 1916-1917 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, includin... | Wilfred Owen | John Oxenham [pseud.] | Vision Splendid, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[another of Owen's poetic influences was] Brooke's friend W.W. Gibson, whose "Battle" (1915) Owen read in December [1... | Wilfred Owen | W.W. Gibson | Battle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa... | Wilfred Owen | Henri Barbusse | Under Fire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa... | Siegfried sassoon | Henri Barbusse | Under Fire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owen met H.G. Wells in November, one of the leading writers about the war and its politics, an advocate of internatio... | Wilfred Owen | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms d... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Bruce Hamley | Operations of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".' | Wilfred Owen | Bion of Smyrna | 'Epitaph on Adonis' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".' | Wilfred Owen | Moschus | 'Epitaph on Bion' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Wel... | Mr Dilly | Hannah Glass | Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Wel... | Samuel Johnson | Hannah Glass | Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's ... | Samuel Johnson | James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick | Memoirs of the Marshall Duke of Berwick | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | Samuel Johnson | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | James Boswell | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWEL... | James Boswell | Jonathan Edwards | [on Grace] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWEL... | Dr Mayo | Jonathan Edwards | [on Grace] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor b... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very... | James Boswell | William Marshall | Minutes of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent "Observations on the Statutes", Johnson waite... | Samuel Johnson | Daines Barrington | Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and s... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of... | Dr Musgrave | Richard Tickell | Project, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Tickell | Project, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland. MISS REYNOLDS. "Have you seen them, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Madam. I have seen a... | Samuel Johnson | Miss Lucan | [translation from Horace] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends ... | James Boswell | | [list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Lucretius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Whenever we felt too tired even to manufacture the ribald witticisms of the Going-Down play, we took it in turns to r... | Vera Brittain and her fellow students | A.F. Pollard | History of England | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was re... | Roger Lowe | Edward Gee | A Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as relating to it | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote l... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and d... | Vera Brittain | Vinagradoff | The Growth of the Manor | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'. | Roger Lowe | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handso... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | The Inn Album | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Theodore William Alois Buckley | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was r... | Roger Lowe | Lewis Bayly | The Practice of Piety | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | David Stewart of Garth | Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlands of Sctland, with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works ... | Vera Brittain | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evol... | Vera Brittain | unknown | The Evolution of World Peace | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accep... | Benjamin Jowett | Hegel | Philosophy of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accep... | Benjamin Jowett | Bunsen | work on Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In July [1858] we stayed at Little Holland House, Kensington, with the Prinseps; and here my father began "The Fair M... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Grandmother' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I remember [...] [Tennyson's] reading with admiration this passage from Maurice's Friendship of Books. "If I do not g... | Alfred Tennyson | F. D. Maurice | Friendship of Books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's diary:
'Oct. 17th. [1858] He [Alfred Tennyson] read aloud "The Rape of the Lock," and noted t... | Alfred Tennyson | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The sudden death of Henry Hallam was a great grief to my father, for the historian had been a good friend through thi... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam A. H. H. | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him... | Alfred Tennyson | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]:
'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, ... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]:
'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, ... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Alfred Tennyson | 'The splendour falls...' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | The Maid of Astolat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859:
'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ... | Benjamin Jowett | Alfred Tennyson | The Maid of Astolat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859:
'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ... | Benjamin Jowett | Alfred Tennyson | The Lily Maid | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860:
'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a ... | Prince Albert | Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Lighthouse Construction and Illumination | Manuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his "Boadicea," whic... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Boadicea | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer."
'By the evening... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Herbert Spencer to Alfred Tennyson [1855]:
'I happened recently to be re-reading your Poem "The Two Voices," and co... | Herbert Spencer | Alfred Tennyson | The Two Voices | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the summer of 1861 we travelled in Auvergne and the Pyrenees [...] At Mont Dore, while my father was reading some ... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyll, from the Temple, London, on return from French holiday of summer 1861:
'I ha... | Alfred Tennyson | | Zohrab the Hostage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince C... | Queen Victoria | Alfred Tennyson | Dedication, Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862:
'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the... | Prince Albert | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862:
'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one... | Queen Victoria | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, Christmas 1862:
'I have, as usual, nothing to tell of myself: boating all the... | Edward Fitzgerald | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Duchess of Kent | inscription | Manuscript: Unknown, In Album belonging to Queen Victoria |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'Edel sei der Mensch' | Manuscript: Unknown, Written by Prince Albert into Album belonging to Queen Victoria. |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after receiving from Queen Victoria, on 11 May, books including 'G... | Alfred Tennyson | Guizot | Preface to Speeches of Prince Albert | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry':
'Lord Houghton, then Richard Mon... | Aubrey De Vere | Arthur Hallam | Essay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Aubrey De Vere on his first 'acquaintance' with Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:
'I remember most of them by hear... | Aubrey de Vere and sister | Alfred Tennyson | Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64):
'He came into my room one day looking for any new book ... | Alfred Tennyson | Stevenson | Praying and Working | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64):
'Oct. 3rd, 1863. Saturday. We drove to Farringford ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64):
'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as backgro... | Edward Fitzgerald | Dampier | Voyages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Ca... | Vera Brittain | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells,... | Vera Brittain | F.S. Marvin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a... | Vera Brittain | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be ex... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", wh... | Vera Brittain | Rebecca West | The Judge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.' | Vera Brittain | W.N.P. Barbellion | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide... | | Vera Brittain | The Dark Tide | Print: Book |
| | 'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like... | Allan Ramsay | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| | 'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like... | Allan Ramsay | | [books of Job and Ruth] | Print: Book |
| | 'We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. "All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained ... | Samuel Johnson | John Whitaker | History of Manchester | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doc... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [Sermon on Devotion] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"I have just put down the "Testament Politique,"" G. was writing to me, as though by telepathy, only a week later, "a... | | Frederick the Great of Prussia | Testament Politique | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Jean Chappe d'Auteroche | | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | [speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of natur... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England | Print: Book |
| | 'This year the Reverend Mr. Horne published his "Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle"; Johnson read it, and ... | Samuel Johnson | George Horne | Letter to Mr Dunning on the English Particle | Print: Unknown |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | Tractate: Of Education | |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Locke | Some Thoughts Concerning Education | Print: Unknown |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | Isaac Watts | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | James Boswell | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | Catherine II of Russia | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | Samuel Johnson | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| | 'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who... | Samuel Johnson | William Tasker | Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | Carmen Seculare | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Talking of the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed [italics] Junius [end italics]; ... | Samuel Johnson | Junius [pseud.] | Letters of Junius | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell int... | James Boswell | Richard Allestree | Government of the Tongue, The | Print: Book |
| | 'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotion... | James Boswell | Blaise Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| | '[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The ... | Samuel Johnson | King James I | Daemonology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of ... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864:
'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 13 October 1864:
'I have been two months away, and only just find your book now... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865):
'June 8th. We went home by Winchester and slept there, and lunched with the War... | Alfred Tennyson | | Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865):
'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work... | Alfred Tennyson | Lucretius | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865):
'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work... | Alfred Tennyson | St Peter | First Epistle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer':
'[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.' |
| 1850-1899 | 'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster]... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'May 2nd. [1866] Marlborough [...] In the evening the Bradleys had a large dinner-party. [George] Bradley [headmaster]... | Alfred Tennyson | Pupils at Marlborough College | Prize Poems | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'May 3rd. [1866] After dinner the Upper Sixth came in, and at their petition [Tennyson] read "Guinevere," refusing how... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| | 'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, ... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Parnell | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| | 'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, ... | James Boswell | Thomas Parnell | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | James Boswell | Hugh Blair | [letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke] | Manuscript: Letter |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | [alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read... | Vera Brittain | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | Sylvanus | First Book of the Iliad | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | John Dawson | Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | Georgii Pasoris | Lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Iesu Christi Domini Nostri N. Testamentum | Print: Book |
| | 'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo... | Samuel Johnson | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson] The Bishop, to whom I had the honour to be known several years ago, shews me much a... | Beilby Porteus | Samuel Johnson | Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets | Print: Book |
| | '[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very... | Samuel Johnson | James Dunbar | Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a ... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | Harking Back to Long Ago | Unknown |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | Theocritus | | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | | Sicilian Gossips | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Callimachus is a writer of little excellence. The ch... | Samuel Johnson | Callimachus | | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book. ... | Samuel Johnson | Mattaire | [various works including Latin verses] | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Irene | Print: Unknown |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Of the Preface to Capel's "Shakspeare", he ... | Samuel Johnson | Capel | [Preface to edition of Shakespeare] | Print: Book |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below S... | Samuel Johnson | James Townley | High Life Below Stairs | Print: Book |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a transl... | Samuel Johnson | Lord Elibank | [Epitaph on his Lady] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a transl... | Mr Dyer | Lord Elibank | [Epitaph on his Lady] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Goldsmith one day brought to the Club a pri... | | | [an ode] | Print: Unknown |
| | '[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Talking of Gray's "Odes", he said, "They ar... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, an... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares acco... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and... | Isaac Archer | John Wilkins | A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'. | Isaac Archer | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'. | Isaac Archer | John Preston | The Breast-Plate of Faith and Love | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | William Whately | A Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten Commandments | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | Lancelot Andrewes | The Moral Law Expounded | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | William Perkins | Armilla Aurea, or The Golden Chain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that th... | Isaac Archer | anon | The Historie of China | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be l... | Isaac Archer | Richard Rogers | Certain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all such as are converted in faith and repentance | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that... | Isaac Archer | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce... | Isaac Archer | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce... | Isaac Archer | Joseph Hall | The Art of Divine Meditation | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that... | Isaac Archer | John Preston | The Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise wherein the ground and exercises of faith and love . . . is explained. Delivered in 18 Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of G... | Isaac Archer | James Ussher | A Body of Divinitie | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's ... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, ... | Isaac Archer | Nicholas Byfield | The Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly Man | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zea... | Isaac Archer | Samuel Clarke | The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read ... | Isaac Archer | | [Commentary upon Ephesians: 3] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quar... | Isaac Archer | Bishop Hall | Sermon on Ephesians 4:30 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | | [Spanish Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | | [Greek tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witc... | Samuel Johnson | James Hammond | Love Elegies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur... | Samuel Johnson | Clenardus | Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur... | Bennet Langton | Clenardus | Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said,... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Dodsley | Publick Virtue, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley... | Bennet Langton | Robert Dodsley | Cleone, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Dodsley | Cleone, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Otway | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to sati... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley'... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Bentley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, tho... | Samuel Johnson | Pindar | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of character... | Samuel Johnson | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | various | [works on the fifteenth century] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction ... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Mr Grove | [articled in 'The Spectator'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when g... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson was fair to Milton's poetic genius, despite hating his politics] Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be consider... | Dr Towers | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of... | Edmund Burke | Herbert Croft | Life of Young | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of... | James Boswell | Herbert Croft | Life of Young | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | James Boswell | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | Love of Fame, The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | [notes on the Psalms] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Eliot, with whom Dr. Walter Harte had travelled, talked to us of his "History of Gustavus Adolphus", which he sai... | Mr Eliot | Walter Harte | History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Joshua Reynolds | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in w... | James Boswell | Hannah More | Bas Bleu; or Conversation | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class... | James Boswell | John Shebbeare | Letters on the English Nation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | James Boswell | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | Oliver Goldsmith | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be... | James Boswell | William Whitehead | 'Elegy to Lord Villiers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be... | Samuel Johnson | Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle | Tragedies and Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Watson | Chemical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Astle | [notes on the will of King Alfred] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late... | William Bewley | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late... | William Bewley | Samuel Johnson | Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthoris... | Lancelot St Albyn | Samuel Johnson | [excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morning Chronicle'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as wel... | Samuel Johnson | George Crabbe | Village, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as wel... | James Boswell | George Crabbe | Village, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] gave much praise to his friend, Dr. Burney's elegant and entertaining travels, and told Mr. Seward that ... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | Continental Travels 1770-72 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "H... | Samuel Johnson | James Beattie | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madnes... | Samuel Johnson | | Love and Madness | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | French Peasant Songs. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Grandmother | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hood | 'Faithless Nelly Gray' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hood | 'Faithless Sally Brown' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hood | 'Tim Turpin' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hood | 'Ben Battle' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too c... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hood | Whims and Oddities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866:
'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for P... | Alfred Tennyson | | The Victim, or The Norse Queen | |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866:
'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for P... | Alfred Tennyson | | The Voyage | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866:
'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for P... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | In the Valley of Cauteretz | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson | | 'Take My Love' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson | Heine | Songs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson | Duke of Argyll | The Reign of Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel) | | Flodden Field | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel) | Aeschlylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867:
'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take... | Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel) | Virgil | Georgics I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | F. T. Palgrave on a tour of the West Country with Tennyson in late summer 1867:
'Our way lay right across Dartmoor,... | Alfred Tennyson | Charlotte M. Yonge | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867:
'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'. | Alfred Tennyson | | Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867:
'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'. | Alfred Tennyson | | Song of Solomon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867:
'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'. | Alfred Tennyson | | Book of Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 11 January 1868: 'A. read the article on the Talmud by Deutsch.' | Alfred Tennyson | Deutsch | article on the Talmud | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868:
'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868:
'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-... | Dr Hook | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal:
'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun.
'... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The San Graal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal:
'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun.
'... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The San Graal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal:
'Sept. 23rd. [1868] We took Lionel [son] to Eton, and left him in Mr Stone's house. ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The San Graal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied i... | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (On Diseases Of The Mind) | Manuscript: Degree thesis |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who kn... | Samuel Johnson | William Chambers | Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Politica... | James Boswell | Richard Hurd | Moral and Political Dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons of the past and present age | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ... | Richard Owen Cambridge | Sallust | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | Samuel Johnson | Delarivier Manley | Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | Samuel Johnson | John Dunton | Life and Errours of John Dunton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | James Boswell | Giovanni Paolo Marana | Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his h... | Samuel Johnson | William Camden | Remains Concerning Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | [ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | Mr Seward | Horace | [ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | James Boswell | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by Davi... | Samuel Johnson | David Mallet | [a poem about Aberdeen] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Early childhood reminisences:
'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her... | Catherine Gurney | [n/a] | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Early childhood reminisences:
'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her... | Catherine Gurney | [n/a] | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read Wm S- letter and thought upon it and religion before I got up, I think of and feel religion at times but I do ... | Elizabeth Gurney | William Savery | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often go to see poor Bob who seems to me dying and it is a good thing to attend a person in that situation. I think... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading to poor Bob which was a cross to me because some one was present I wrote this.' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Altogether I think I have had a satisfactory day. I had a good lesson of French this morning and read much in Epectitus' | Elizabeth Gurney | Epictetus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline]... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Gurney | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline]... | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening I have been reading a good deal in the "Monk". I don't know whether it hurts the mind or not, it certain... | Elizabeth Gurney | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon ... I went to the Cathedral then I came home read to the Normans and little Castleton' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible [most likely] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of Fren... | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of Fren... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been great part of this morning with poor Bob who seems now dying. I read a long chapter in the Testament to h... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see Mrs Norman and read in Barclay's Apology' | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read in Barclay's Apology in the evening' | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read a little in Barclay' | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day I begin to read through the Bible. I have finished the Testament. I wish to read the Bible of a morning and ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible [Old Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read to the old Normans' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read to Mrs Norman' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had rather a comfortable drive here from Shrewsbury, read in the Testament and got by heart one or two verses' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner' | Priscilla Hannah Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".' | Samuel Johnson | Richard Baxter | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book o... | Samuel Johnson | | [French literature] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divini... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Baxter | Reasons of the Christian Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the lib... | James Boswell | Anacreon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A pleasing instance of the generous attention of one of his [Dr Johnson's] friends has been discovered by the publica... | James Boswell | Hester Lynch Thrale | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Earl of Carlisle having written a tragedy, entitled "The Father's Revenge", some of his Lordship's friends applie... | Samuel Johnson | Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle | Father's Revenge, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a di... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the books... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Burton | Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the books... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Baxter | Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may rea... | Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note... | James Boswell | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr... | Samuel Johnson | Helen Maria Williams | Ode on the Peace, An | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Newton | Account of his Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu... | Dr Adams | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine ... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Savage | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of... | James Boswell | Richard Hurd | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the ... | Samuel Johnson | | Book of Common Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the ... | Samuel Johnson | | [various books of prayer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemnin... | James Boswell | Jeremy Taylor | Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gi... | Samuel Johnson | Jeremy Taylor | Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson... | Samuel Johnson | Herbert Croft | [Family Discourses] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is ent... | James Boswell | Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | [Sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | ‘A Greek Hymn’. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, possibly Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I devoted most of my morning writing to P. Hoare, writing French and reading' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this day read Rasselas which is a book I like as it leads to deep affection' | Elizabeth Gurney | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'at night snug time reading after the rest of the family were in bed' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Since dinner I have read much logic and enjoyed it, it is interesting to me, may, I think, with attention, do me good... | Elizabeth Gurney | Isaac Watts | Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence ... | Elizabeth Gurney | Isaac Watts | Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read Watts' Logic' | Elizabeth Gurney | Isaac Watts | Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much this morning in St Basil, which is to me excellent, interesting and beautiful. He advises a constant than... | Elizabeth Gurney | St Basil of Caesarea | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its... | John Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'wrote a little logic this afternoon and read Jones on the Figurative languages of the Scriptures' | Elizabeth Gurney | William Jones | A course of lectures on the figurative language of the Holy Scripture, and the interpretation of it from Scripture itself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I first wrote in my journal, read in the Testament after breakfast' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote and read a little before breakfast' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am now reading Butler's Analogy' | Elizabeth Gurney | Joseph Butler | Analogy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read a good deal of Lavator's journal and have felt sympathy with him. I like the book as it reminds me of my ... | Elizabeth Gurney | Lavator | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading Lavator on self knowledge, and like it much. I find it difficult to confine my attention to what ... | Elizabeth Gurney | Lavator | self knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then wrote a little journal, read a chapter away from the fire; rather as a cross to the body; but I had such a swe... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then read french and wrote it, had one or two little interruptions' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [French] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficie... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After that Kitty made a proposition very pleasant to me, that we should sit together all the afternoon and read "Pilg... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott' | Elizabeth Gurney | Job Scott | Journal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job Scott | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read my Testament and felt not destitute of religion' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [French] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | Job Scott | Journal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job Scott | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an exa... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read to dear little Mary' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christia... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [books on the prophecies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'. | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [New testament] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theolog... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | James Currie | Life of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | James Currie | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they hav... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [books on metaphysics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgmen... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | Harp, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh... | Miss H. | Hector Macneil | Harp, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which s... | Miss H. | Hector Macneil | The Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] In what you say with regard to the second volume of "Letters on Education" being, i... | Hector Macneil | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of a... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensi... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [Edinburgh] Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] I submitted my half finished manuscript [to my friend Mr D. S-], which he read over with critical a... | Mr D.S- | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Germanicus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by t... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would ha... | Elizabeth Hamilton | R.H. Cromek | Reliques of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the A... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | [Journal] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | 2 Corinthians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my sp... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I h... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Esther) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Wodrow | The Correspondence of the Rev Robert Wodrow | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord a... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day,... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the fi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[speaking of some verses in the notes to Pope's Dunciad, Boswell and Miss Seward wonder who they are by] He was promp... | Samuel Johnson | Mr Lewis | [verses on Pope in notes to the 'Dunciad'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underlin... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will... | Samuel Johnson | | [books of Voyages to the South Seas] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will... | James Boswell | | [books of Voyages to the South Seas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low ... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | Journals | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing ... | Samuel Johnson | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We rea... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Colossians) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was present when a tragedy was read, in which there occurred this line:--
"Who rules o'er freemen should hi... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Brooke | Gustavus Vasa The Deliverer Of His Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Walpole thought Johnson a more amiable character after reading his "Letters to Mrs. Thrale": but never was one of... | Horace Walpole | Hester Lynch Thrale | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freed... | James Boswell | | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freed... | Samuel Johnson | | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "H... | Samuel Johnson | John Moore | [travels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in h... | Samuel Johnson | Joshua Reynolds | Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in h... | Samuel Johnson | Joshua Reynolds | Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt low and naturally prone to be irritable, and from the deep feeling of the difficulties in doing my part toward... | Elizabeth Fry | C.H.V. Bogatsky | Golden Treasury for the Children of God | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to... | Samuel Johnson | Anna Seward | [poem on Lichfield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction wh... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to... | Samuel Johnson | Anna Seward | 'Elegy on Captain Cook' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to... | James Boswell | Anna Seward | [poem on Lichfield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account o... | Lord Eliot | Daniel Defoe | Memoirs of Captain George Carleton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return th... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account o... | Samuel Johnson | Daniel Defoe | Memoirs of Captain George Carleton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The last time I parted with those in the Ship Mary such a scene all around me, when I parted from them, probably for ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giv... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded a... | Samuel Johnson | Desiderius Erasmus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a littl... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs enco... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bo... | Samuel Johnson | | [Mr Bowyer's Life] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend t... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his ... | Samuel Johnson | | Universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, &c. With a general index to the whole | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams i... | Samuel Johnson | | Anthologia Graeca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but c... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | Journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | '5th day last - This evening William Foster read the 5th chap of Isaiah expressing his full belief that our Joseph wou... | William Foster | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not un... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we h... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style.
In the "T... | James Boswell | Robert Burrowes | [Essay on Johnson's style] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Henry Mackenzie | [imitation of Johnson] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | John Young | Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,--
"Oran... | Dr Brocklesby | Juvenal | Tenth Satire | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,--
"Oran... | Samuel Johnson | Juvenal | Tenth Satire | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [MS Autobiography] | Manuscript: quarto volumes |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some atte... | John Hoole | | the Litany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some atte... | Samuel Johnson | | the Litany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in par... | Samuel Johnson | Jacques-Auguste de Thou | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because,... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Clarke | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte... | John Betjeman | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Ulysses' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte... | John Betjeman | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Morte d'Arthur' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalize... | John Betjeman | Alfred Douglas | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Ebeneezer Elliott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Henry Taylor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Philip James Bailey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Lewis Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise whe... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | | Life of Cervantes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says S... | Hester Maria Salusbury | Moses Franks | [verses on Mrs Pitt bathing] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I c... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [French epitaphs] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives an epitaph translated from French by Bennet Langton, and her own translation] 'I remember Johnson p... | Samuel Johnson | | [French epitaph translated by Mrs Thrale and Bennet Langton] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Dr Collier | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When Doctor Parker had read the foregoing Poem [given - a long poem by Mrs Thrale on his dog Pompey] he wrote these v... | Dr Parker | Hester Lynch Thrale | [verses on a dog named Pompey] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | Dr Parker | 'To Miss Salusbury' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Greek Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anon. | ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Laurence Sterne | ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Dodsley | Collection of Poems by Various Hands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Samuel Johnson | Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always... | Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji | Edwin Hodder | Cities of the World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I... | Cornelia Sorabji | Kirkham (ed.) | Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia's letters home | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especi... | Cornelia Sorabji | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especi... | Cornelia Sorabji | Austin Dobson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into the... | Cornelia Sorabji | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dear Miss Sorabji
My husband & I were so distressed at the sad news contained in our paper today that I cannot re... | Sybill Roffes | Theodore Leighton Pennell | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Did not Virgil mean by his Epithet [italics] Puniceis [end italics] to Rosetis in the fifth Eclogue the rose of Tyria... | Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson | Virgil | fifth Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives the Spanish quotation] "Quien la ve no la e; quien no la ve, la ve".
I think the Jeu de Mots in t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a Spanish play] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dr Marriott | [French poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purpo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'. | Charles Burney | James Harris | Philosophical Arrangements | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus... | | | Lectures of Morality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Lord Corke | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Maurice Morgan | Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Bar... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Mr Pepys | [verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Wooton | 'Ye meaner beauties of the night' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Henry Wooton | 'Ye meaner beauties of the night' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t... | John Salusbury | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips. | George Otto Trevelyan | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Conyers Middleton | The life and letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Poole | Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Cha... | George Otto Trevelyan | Elizabeth Von Arnim | Christopher and Columbus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Cicero | The treatises of M.T. Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Leslie Stephen | 'George Eliot' in Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generat... | George Otto Trevelyan | Frances Trollope | The Laurringtons; or, superior people | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this am... | George Otto Trevelyan | Frances Trollope | The ward of Thorpe-Combe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Read June 19 1947". | Charles Philips Trevelyan | Frances Trollope | The ward of Thorpe-Combe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn'... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry Gunning | Reminiscences of the university, town and county of Cambridem from the year 1780 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many marginal notes include: "The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read t... | George Otto Trevelyan | Aulus Gellius | Noctes atticae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in p... | George Otto Trevelyan | Caius Velleius Paterculus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of s... | Charles Causley | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Princess, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of s... | Charles Causley | Walter Scott | Lochinvar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b... | Charles Causley | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b... | Charles Causley | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b... | Charles Causley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Charles Causley | Florence L. Barclay | Following of the Star, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Charles Causley | Marie Corelli | Sorrows of Satan, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Charles Causley | Olive Higgins Prouty | Stella Dallas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Charles Causley | Joseph Hocking | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Joseph Hocking | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Joseph Hocking | Rosemary Carew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Silas Hocking | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Olive Higgins Prouty | Stella Dallas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Marie Corelli | Sorrows of Satan, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni... | Mrs Causley | Florence L. Barclay | Following of the Star, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre.
O Robespi... | Charles Causley | Emma Orczy | [Scarlet Pimpernel novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy... | Charles Causley | Siegfried Sassoon | War Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy... | Charles Causley | Robert Graves | [war poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy... | Charles Causley | Edmund Blunden | [war poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy... | Charles Causley | Wilfred Owen | [war poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | George Orwell | Road to Wigan Pier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | Wystan Hugh Auden | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | Stephen Spender | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | Cecil Day-Lewis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | Louis MacNeice | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | Christopher Isherwood | Goodbye to Berlin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives her 'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park'] This trifling performance brought Te... | Thomas Salusbury | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Sarah Fielding | 'To Miss Salusbury' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] used to mention Harry Fielding's behaviour to her [his sister Sarah] as a melancholy instance of narrown... | Sarah Fielding | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concu... | Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and others | James Beattie | Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives her long poem entitled 'Offley Park'] This little poem will be easily seen to have been written by ... | Thomas Salusbury | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Offley Park' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he [Mr Hale] was a clever man enough too, valued himself on his Literature, and made some pretty verses. as for Examp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Hale | [translation of one of Martial's 'Epigrams'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Fordyce | Sermons to Young Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'there came out a Pamphlet setting forth the Felicity & Benefit of a numerous Offspring; some Arch Body of his acquain... | James Stonhouse | | [pamphlet on benefits of children] | |
| 1700-1799 | 'when he was at the University he [Edward Gibbon] used frequently to come to Town, and go to Lewis the bookseller's in... | Edward Gibbon | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[a young man] Mr Allen - resolved to take Orders and made proper Application: The Bishop asked him of course what he ... | Mr Allen | Soame Jennings | Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's ... | Major Markham | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's ... | | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan.... | George Otto Trevelyan | Caius Suetonius Tranquillus | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October... | George Otto Trevelyan | Plato | Dialogues | |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." | George Otto Trevelyan | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his siste... | George Otto Trevelyan | Thucydides | De bello Pelloponesiaco | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finis... | George Otto Trevelyan | Herodotus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margin... | | Sophocles | Sophoclis Tragodiae superstites | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Martin Madan | A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perseus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905;... | George Otto Trevelyan | Demosthenes | Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur Holmes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read... | George Otto Trevelyan | Demosthenes | Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Olynthiacs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to re... | George Otto Trevelyan | Demosthenes | in Midiam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Xenophon | Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton L. Brownson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "CPT read this aloud to PJD December 1957, the last book we read before his death in Jan 1958. He had not read it sinc... | Charles Philips Trevelyan | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Wey... | George Otto Trevelyan | Horace | Works; ed by Macleane | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both i... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Walker | Clavis Homerica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | Portraits of places | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, co... | George Otto Trevelyan | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897. | George Otto Trevelyan | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusa... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Fortnightly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Carlyle | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apolloni... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'. | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountab... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and line... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that w... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who... | George Otto Trevelyan | Mark Twain | A tramp abroad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clan... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?' | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excludi... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS note at the end of "The man of destiny": "Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once di... | George Otto Trevelyan | George Bernard Shaw | Plays: pleasant and unpleasant | Print: Book |
| | Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the... | George Otto Trevelyan | Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events ... | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh... | George Otto Trevelyan | Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constan... | George Otto Trevelyan | Arnold Bennett | The old wives' tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, Georg... | George Otto Trevelyan | Arnold Bennett | These twain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Gl... | George Otto Trevelyan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Julius Stinde | The Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the la... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Illustrated London News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was bas... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The better sort | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868:
'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck... | Charles Cockin | Joshua Sylvester | 'The Woodman's Beare' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, January 1869:
'A. read "The Holy Grail" to the Bradleys, explaining the realism and ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Holy Grail | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Feb. 13th. A. read what he had done of the birth and marriage of "Arthur."' | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'birth and marriage of "Arthur"' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Coming of Arthur | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished... | Alfred Tennyson | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'May 18th. A. read the "San Graal." I doubt whether the "San Graal" would have... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | "The San Graal" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'Rogers used often to read to him passages of his writin... | Samuel Rogers | Samuel Rogers | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest an... | Alfred Tennyson | Jonathan Swift | Legion Club | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest an... | Alfred Tennyson | Jonathan Swift | Legion Club | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had ... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hood | epigram | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Frederick Locker-Lampson, in commonplace book belonging to him. |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'I have an old commonplace book, into which [...] I had ... | Frederick Locker-Lampson | Thomas Hood | epigram | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson:
'I once met Tennyson at dinner at the Conservative Club,... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Tom Hughes | Alfred the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Pressense | Life of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Martineau | Endeavours After a Christian Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Lecky | European Morals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Dec. 11th. Farringford. A. read me some of Maurice's Social Morals; "a noble ... | Alfred Tennyson | Maurice | Social Morals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'March 1st. Aldworth. Hallam read the 4th Aeneid with A.; they study Virgil to... | Alfred and Hallam Tennyson | Virgil | Aeneid IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morr... | Alfred Tennyson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morr... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Morris | ?work on ornithology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'February. A. [...] read to me some of the Edinburgh Royal Society Transaction... | Alfred Tennyson | | Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'May 21st. He [Tennyson] read me his "Tristram" ("Last Tournament"), the plan ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Tristram' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'Aug. 31st. [...] A. drove to the Lewes'. He read to them, and last of all at ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Guinevere' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. ... | Alfred Tennyson | | 'book about Russia' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. ... | Alfred Tennyson | | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous,... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Robert Browning | Balaustion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | Pascal | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | Montesquieu | Decadence des Romains | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor H... | Alfred Tennyson | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor H... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred de Musset | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'Sept. 5th. Returned [from Continental travels] by Lausanne and Amiens to Aldw... | Alfred Tennyson | | Le Lendemain de la Mort | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Tennyson's 'letter-diary' (1872):
'Nov. 1st. [...] I saw "Bijou" last night, and was ashamed of my countrymen ... | Alfred Tennyson | | playbill | Print: Handbill |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of th... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The reverberator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevely... | George Otto Trevelyan | Anthony Hope | The Dolly dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learning, Science and Art | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | 'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Addington Symonds | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmund Gosse | English Odes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome.... | George Otto Trevelyan | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-se... | George Otto Trevelyan | Mary Boykin Chesnut | A diary from Dixie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Felix Bouvier | Bonaparte en Italie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Lothrop Motley | History of the United Netherlands | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side o... | George Otto Trevelyan | James Grant | British battles on land and sea | Print: Book |
| | MS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am g... | George Otto Trevelyan | Charles James Fox | Memorials and correspondence of Charles James Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "S... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Lothrop Motley | The rise of the Dutch republic: a history | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read betwee... | George Otto Trevelyan | Marcus Tullius Cicero | M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "Ma... | George Otto Trevelyan | Julius Caesar | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and mar... | George Otto Trevelyan | Cornelius Tacitus | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads ... | | William Chillingworth | Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, fro... | George Otto Trevelyan | Livy | Historiorum libri | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships... | Humphrey Jackson | | [Greek Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships... | Humphrey Jackson | | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good au... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses on Garrick's Lear] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Sallust | Opera omnia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giuseppe Pecio | [sonnet to Voltaire] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in... | Lord Sandys | Giuseppe Pecio | [sonnet to Voltaire] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses to a wife, about a penknife] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Herbert Lawrence | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Apropos to Garrick when I dined at Hampton last there was a pompous Reading of some pretty Verses from A Gentleman to... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses on a lady and a pen knife] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Greville | Ode to Indifference | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Elizabeth Montagu | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Elizabeth Montagu | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you bee... | James Francis Edward Keith | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Mother was making her Little Son read Nelson's Feasts and Fasts - this says he is a very good book to be sure Mama,... | | Robert Nelson | Companion for the festivals and fasts of the Church of England: With collects and prayers for each solemnity , A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says... | James Mathias | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey) | L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Camille Debans | Le Baron Jean (Baron John) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | A J Butler | Review in Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of litera... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Revised Version of New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | The Library | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Grant Robertson | Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General Roberts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems m... | Winifred Holtby | | Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Peep Behind the Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinb... | Winifred Holtby | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Super Flumina Babylonis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian l... | George de Coundouroff | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes o... | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Hobbes | The Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873):
'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simpl... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | George Sand | Lelia | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems th... | Gilbert Cooper | Arthur Murphy | Contest | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and st... | Winifred Holtby | Walter Raleigh | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Disc... | Winifred Holtby | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's... | Vera Brittain | Mary Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Dr Dillingham | A Hymne to our Creator | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up ... | Samuel Johnson | Hugo Grotius | De veritate religionis Christianae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on v... | Samuel Johnson | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Steele | [Essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Samuel Johnson | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Samuel Johnson | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Samuel Johnson | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquire... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | History of Music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption bo... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Gray | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attenti... | Samuel Johnson | | [book on gardening] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, verses by Lady Jane Grey beginning: 'be Constant be Constant Feare not for ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Lady Jane Grey | 'Be Constant' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Swift | History Of the Four last years Of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, (anon) 'An Hymne to our Redeemer'.
Copied in spaces between other entries ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | An Hymne to our Redeemer | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Samuel Johnson | Adam Ferguson | Essay on the History of Civil Society | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | William Rose | Adam Ferguson | Essay on the History of Civil Society | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu... | Dr Delap | Jonathan Swift | History Of the Four last years Of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne's translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, IV.519-20. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Huetania | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dye... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Heywood (attrib.) | Upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her Raign, & seventy of her age | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Str... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Juvenal, 'Vnto the wiser Gods the care permit'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Juvenal | Unto the wiser Gods the care permit, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Churchill | Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Inconstancy'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edmund Elys | Inconstancy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Churchill | Ghost, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Churchill | Ghost, The | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Beauty'. Lyttelton signals the continuation of the poem acros... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | Beauty | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - reve... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edmund Elys | Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edward Reynolds 'When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edward Reynolds | When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Love'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | Love | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Elizabeth I's 'On the words hoc est corpus meum', titled 'Queen Elizas answ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Queen Elizabeth I (attrib.) | 'On the words hoc est corpus meum' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Nathaniel Wanley's translation of Justus Lipsius, 'A disc... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Justus Lipsius | A Discourse of Constancy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Edward Reynolds, 'A Treatise of the Passions and Facvltie... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edward Reynolds | A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous poem entitled 'An Euening Hymn' and beginning 'Now that the Sa... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | An Evening Hymn | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Plato's Two Cupids'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | Plato's Two Cupids | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a Meditation on Seneca's maxim 'verum gaudium res severa est' (Epistulae mo... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Seneca | Epistulae morales, 23, 4 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'The Refinement'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | The Refinement | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristo... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle'... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Thomas Flatman, 'On Dr. Brown's Travels'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Flatman | On Dr. Brown's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Moralistic reflections in verse'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | Moralistic reflections in verse | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous 'Moral dialogue'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | Moral Dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Of Consumptions | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873):
'Oct. 28th. London. 4 Seamore Place. We took up our abode at Seamore Place in... | Alfred Tennyson | Hinton | The Mystery of Matter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson (1873):
'I have a word to say about "Gareth" which your publisher sent me as "... | Edward Fitzgerald | Alfred Tennyson | Gareth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874):
'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thi... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Holinshed | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1874):
'Lately we have been reading Holinshed and Froude's Mary, for A. has been thi... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Froude | "Mary" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.' | Alfred Tennyson | Motley | Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first meeting after the formation of the [Metaphysical] Society took place at the Deanery, Westminster, June 2nd,... | Mr Knowles | Alfred Tennyson | The Higher Pantheism | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | W. B. Carpenter | W. B. Carpenter | 'The commonsense philosophy of Causation' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Rev. F. D. Maurice | Rev. F. D. Maurice | paper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 'supernatural.' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | James Martineau | James Martineau | 'Is there any Axiom of Causation?' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Frederick Harrison | Frederick Harrison | 'The relativity of Knowledge' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Walter Bagehot | Walter Bagehot | 'The emotion of Conviction' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol | Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol | 'What is Death?' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 9 July 1875:
'I had bought your Play a few days before your gift-copy reached... | Edward Fitzgerald | Alfred Tennyson | Queen Mary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875:
'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly rea... | Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart. | Alfred Tennyson | Queen Mary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 21 December 1876:
'True thanks again, this time for the best of Christmas prese... | Robert Browning | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876:
'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial tha... | Aubrey de Vere | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876:
'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial tha... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | A. P. Stanley to Alfred Tennyson, 25 December 1876:
'I will gladly contrive if you wish to transmit your poem [Haro... | A. P. Stanley | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 30 December 1876:
'Here I have a book of old Spanish Romances familiar to Don... | Edward Fitzgerald | | 'old Spanish Romances' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877:
'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the ... | G. H. Lewes and George Eliot | Alfred Tennyson | Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877:
'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the ... | G. H. Lewes and George Eliot | Alfred Tennyson | Queen Mary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The play [Becket] is so accurate a representation of the personages and of the time, that J. R. Green said that all h... | J. R. Green | Alfred Tennyson | Becket | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson:
'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while a... | J. Bryce | Alfred Tennyson | Becket | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson:
'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while a... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Becket | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot a... | Alfred Tennyson | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot a... | Alfred Tennyson | Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Lady Cardwell to Alfred Tennyson, 9 April 1878:
'It may interest you to know another instance of the solace you hav... | C. E. Gordon | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father's first meeting with the Princess of Wales took place at Mrs Greville's in Chester Square. The Princess ask... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Welcome to Alexandra | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father was fond of asking Joachim [celebrity violinist] to play to him in his own house. One particular evening I ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Revenge | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dw... | Alfred Tennyson | Catullus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dw... | Miss Ritchie | Catullus | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Tennyson's manuscript notes on his volume of Ballads and Poems (1880):
'"Rizpah" is founded on an incident whi... | Alfred Tennyson | | Old Brighton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [Mary Brotherton writes] 'I told him [Tennyson] the story [of the eighteenth-century woman soldier Phoebe Hessel] one ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Bones' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing... | Samuel Johnson | Hester Lynch Thrale | [MS 'character' of Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'.... | Samuel Johnson | James Harris | [Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Ma... | Samuel Johnson | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Maria Thrale | Metastasio [pseud.] | Adriano | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson mad... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | [poem about Mrs Thrale] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a lit... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [verses modelled on 'The Dunciad'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -... | Susan Thrale | | [a story book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -... | Susan Thrale | James Beattie | Essays on Poetry and Music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which... | | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses ... | Samuel Johnson | Anacreon | Dove | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Jones | [MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teethin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a New York newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Grainger | 'Solitude: An Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th... | Samuel Johnson | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon | Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Arthur Murphy | Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Jones | Earl of Essex, The, a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passa... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Darrell | Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Acce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[at a gathering on the Isle of Wight] it fell to Paterson's Share [in a rhyming contest] it seems to celebrate Kitty ... | Mr Paterson | Mr Paterson | [verses written to Kitty Parker] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Parnell | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed... | Sophia Streatfield | Hester Lynch Thrale | [translation of Voltaire's 'A Madame de Chatelet'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Rival, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | [Ode on life] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Amurath | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charlotte Lennox | Female Quixote, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Knolles | The generall historie of the Turks | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Paul Rycaut | History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | S.J. Alvaro Semedo | The History of China | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Flavius Josephus | The History of the Jewish Wars | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Adam Olearius | Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Mandelilo | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Taverniere | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Pietro della Valle | Travels in Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Vincent Le Blanc | The world surveyed: or, The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent Le Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Fernão Mendes Pinto | Pilgrimage of Fernam Mendez Pinto in which is told the many and very strange things he saw and heard in the kingdom of China, in the one of Tartary, in the one of Sornau, usually called Siam, in the one of Calaminhan, in the one of Pegù... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Gage | Travels in the New World | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Terre | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | History of the Life of Monsieur d'Epernon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | unknown | History of Naples | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | unknown | History of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Camden | Historie of the Life and Reigne of Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Herodian | History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Procopius of Caesarea | Secret History | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sands | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Olaus Magnus | History of the Northern People | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Rudolf Jakob Camerarius | De sexu plantarum epistola | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Suetonius | De Vita Caesarum [the Twelve Caesars] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Appian | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Speed | Chronicle of the Life of King James | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Purchas | His Pilgrimage or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered from the Creation Unto This Present | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | unknown | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'King James his Epitaph by Bishop Corbet'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | Epitaph on King James | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Aphra Behn, 'Epitaph on William Fairfax'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Aphra Behn | Epitaph on William Fairfax | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Walter Ralegh, 'Even such is time which takes in trust'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Walter Ralegh | Even such is time which takes in trust | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'To his Son Vincent Corbett'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | To his Son Vincent Corbett | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'An Elegie upon the Death of his own Father'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | An Elegie upon the Death of his own Father | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Wotton, 'On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton.'
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Henry Wotton | On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Psalm 56 v. 3. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | | Psalms, 56:3 | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | In Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a paraphrase of Walter Ralegh's lines 'Like hermit poor', entitled 'A Christian paraphr... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Walter Ralegh | Like hermit poor | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Donne, 'A Hymne to God the Father'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Donne | A Hymne to God the Father | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill a... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Thomas Carey, 'On his Mistress going to Sea'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Carey | On his mistress going to sea | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Taylor, 'There for a token I did thinke it meete'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Taylor | There for a token I did thinke it meete | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Savile, 'To the King'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Henry Savile | To the King | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Alabaster, 'Dr Alabasters verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Alabaster | Verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of an extract from Joshua Sylvester's translation of the second day from G... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Joshua Sylvester | Translation of the second day from Guillaume Du Bartas's The Second Week | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Fanshawe, 'A Happy Life out of Martial'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Fanshawe | A Happy Life out of Martial | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of a Couplet from Charles Aleyn, 'The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Charles Aleyn | The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Katherine Phillips, 'A Virgin'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Katherine Phillips | A Virgin | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710' | Elizabeth Lyttelton | | The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of lines attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, beginning, 'the Almond florishet... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne (attrib.) | Verses beginning 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of extracts from a speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his imp... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Scroggs | Speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Cartwright, 'To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Cartwright | To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Fragment on meadowes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Seignor verdero in his proper habitt, | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Anon | An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Anon | A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Kn... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Knight, when his Lady was lately delivered of a daughter, which babe was Presented to the King with a Paper of verses in her hand... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Edward Tenison, a pair of anagrams on Elizabeth Lyttelton's name, and a... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edward Tenison | anagrams and couplets | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset th... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Henry Wotton | Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'The Character of a Happy Life'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Henry Wotton | The Character of a Happy Life | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of St Ignatius of Antioch, 'My Love is Crucified'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | St Ignatius of Antioch | My Love is Crucified | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The Prayer of Luther at his death'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | The Prayer of Luther at his death | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Philippe Quinault, 'Autre'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Philippe Quinault | Autre | Print: libretto |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| | 'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [verses on death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,... | Samuel Johnson | Charles Burney | [verses on death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Spring' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Summer' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire Naturelle | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Pennant | History of Quadrupeds. | Print: Book |
| | '[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Vanbrugh | Esop; a comedy | Print: Book |
| | 'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus
Iam dic Posthume de tribus Ca... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Southern | Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | Fatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three Acts | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Vanbrugh | Provoked Husband, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Old Batchelor, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: a Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Samuel Johnson | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | 'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Mason | 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' | Print: Unknown |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Bourgeois gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | John Dryden | Song for St. Cecilia's Day | Print: Book |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Alexander Pope | Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | The Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-r... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has... | Eliza Salmon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Daily entry in journal, reads the Scriptures to the female convicts on board the 'Cadet' every morning and evening. | R.W. Gibbs | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thurs 16 November 1848: 'Visited an invalid in hospital, conversed with her on her everlasting concern, read and expou... | R.W. Gibbs | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mon 20 November 1848: 'After service conversed with Ellen Hinds and Anne Wheatcroft who appeared truly contrite, read ... | R.W. Gibbs | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tues 21 November 1848: 'After service conversed apart with Anne Wheatcroft who indicated a very favourable state of mi... | R.W. Gibbs | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 27 Nov 1848 to 17 Apr 1849: visits the inmates in ship hospital to read Scriptures to them every morning. | R.W. Gibbs | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tues 27 Mar 1849 - Sat 31 Mar 1849: chaplain had accident on board ship, Matron reads Scriptures to convicts every mor... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fri 19 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving much' | female convicts | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fri 31 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - desirous to improve' | female convicts | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fri 10 Mar 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving in Scripture knowledge' | female convicts | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883):
'[18 September] In response to ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | "The Bugle Song" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883):
'[18 September] In response to ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | "The Grandmother" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's survey of his father's 'Criticisms on Poets and Poetry':
'After reading Pericles, Act v. alo... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | Pericles (Act V) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home:
'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home:
'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Sir Galahad | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home:
'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud (extracts) | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home:
'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'dialect poems' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to Roden Noel (February 1885):
'Your article in the Contemporary has been sent to me ***. My eyes a... | Alfred Tennyson | Roden Noel | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On Dec. 15th [1887] "Owd Roa" was finished for press. My father's note on the poem is: "I read in one of the daily pa... | Alfred Tennyson | | newspaper report on rescue of child by dog | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '1888. At Easter Miss Mary Anderson [actress] was with us again and he [Tennyson] read to her, whom he admired much, a... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Leper's Bride | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Euripides | Iphigenia in Aulis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Matthew Arnold | 'on Tolstoi' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | John Fiske | The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Gibbon | History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | John Keats | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | William Wordsworth | The Recluse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]':
'He read or had read to him at this time the follow... | Alfred Tennyson | Virgil | Georgics (II) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith... | Benjamin Jowett | Plato | Thaetetus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan. 27th. and 28th. [1889] We carried him down for the f... | Alfred Tennyson | Bret Harte | Cressy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiae... | Alfred Tennyson | Plato | The Vision of Er | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiae... | Hallam Tennyson | Plato | Republic (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] ... | Henry Hallam | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems:
'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a v... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Cobbler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the othe... | Edward Fitzgerald | Hayley | Life of Romney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Fa... | Hallam Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Crossing the Bar' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'My father considered Edmund Lushington's translation into Greek of "Crossing the Bar," one of the finest translations... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | 'Crossing the Bar' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. H... | Alfred Tennyson | Benjamin Disraeli | Henrietta Temple | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. H... | Alfred Tennyson | Benjamin Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | Walter Scott | novels including Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ... | Alfred Tennyson | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | George Meredith | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Walter Besant | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Black | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Henry James | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Marion Crawford | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Anstey | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Barrie | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | R. D. Blackmore | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Arthur Conan Doyle | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Mary Braddon | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Miss Lawless | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Ouida | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Rhoda Broughton | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Lady Margaret Majendie | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Hall Caine | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Shorthouse | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Edna Lyall | Autobiography of a Slander | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Wilhelmina von Hillern | Geier-Wally | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Surly Tim: A Lancashire Story | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Margaret Oliphant | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91):
'A sudden attack of influenza had made my father ill again. Despite his g... | Hallam Tennyson | | Tithes Bill | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91):
'March 8th. [1890] He made me read Southwell's "Burning Babe" to him out ... | Hallam Tennyson | Robert Southwell | 'The Burning Babe' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91):
'March 17th. [1890] He [Tennyson] had all but recovered from his influenz... | Hallam Tennyson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91):
'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Duke of Wellington | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91):
'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of ... | Hallam Tennyson | J. G. Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91:
'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of m... | Hallam Tennyson | | "story of a Balaclava hero" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91:
'Aug. 6th. [1890] Aldworth. The Duchess of Albany came to luncheon with us... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had join... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Duke of Wellington | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had join... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Dedication, OEnone | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In April [1891] the President of Magdalen, Oxford, and Mrs Warren called upon us [...] Mrs Richard Ward, who had join... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | OEnone | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St Ja... | Alfred Tennyson | Sir Edward Reed | 'lines on the Fleet' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St Ja... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Russel Wallace | Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection with Some of its Applications | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordswor... | Alfred Tennyson | William Watson | 'Wordsworth's Grave' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the last letters my father wrote during this year [1891] was to the young poet William Watson, whose "Wordswor... | Alfred Tennyson | Rudyard Kipling | 'The English Flag' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eate... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Lotos-Eaters | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eate... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Duke of Wellington | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In March [1892] he [Tennyson] recovered his voice [which had failed him during January] [...] He read "The Passing of... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Passing of Arthur | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for som... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Maud (extracts) | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for som... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | The Spinster's Sweet-Arts | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for som... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden (extracts) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a qu... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Proofs | Print: Proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our mother started with joy at the sight of 'great fall in Tea' printed in the last newspaper, at the head of an adve... | Margaret Carlyle | | Advertisement for Tea | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I like your "Byron" well ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Athenaeum, 'The Poetry of Byron' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I liked your ... "Berlioz" better.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | Cornhill Magazine 'Hector Berlioz: a Biography' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the la... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe... | Joseph Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I rather felt this morning it would have been right for me to read the Bible again, and stop George Dilwyn and Joseph... | Joseph Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by sayi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | [unknown, possibly Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... | Elizabeth Fry | Frederick Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all p... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and rea... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I thi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scr... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amo... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Words of a gentleman, well known to Fry, desirous of seeing and judging for himself effects of the experiment in Newga... | | [n/a] | Bible (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'Most of th... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school ro... | Sophie de C | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school ro... | Sophia de C | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next pr... | Sophia de C | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to... | Sophia de C | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interestin... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Ephesians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | Priscilla Gurney | Selection of Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | Samuel Scott | A diary of some religious exercises, and experience of Samuel Scott, late of Hartford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | Joseph Gurney Bevan | Piety Promoted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | [unknown] | Accounts of the Missions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | Isaac Watts | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I... | Priscilla Gurney | How | [account of mission] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the beginning of September [1892], though feeling very ill, my father looked over a book of poems at the earnest e... | Alfred Tennyson | Dalmon | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father:
'While reading an article in the Spectator on blan... | Alfred Tennyson | | article on Keats and Wordsworth | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father:
'"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been r... | Alfred Tennyson | Sully Prudhomme | L'Agonie | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father:
'"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been r... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred de Musset | poems including 'Tristesse' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in genera... | Alfred Tennyson | Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in genera... | Alfred Tennyson | Coppee | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in genera... | Alfred Tennyson | Jean Aicard | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | | Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | St Matthew | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | Anna Swanwick | Poets, The Interpreters of the Age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Audrey Tennyson | | article on colonization of Uganda | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | King Lear, Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Hallam Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day:
'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day:
'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again... | Alfred Tennyson | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's funeral:
'Many were seen reading "In Memoriam" while waiting before ... | Mourners at funeral of Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson:
'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated nove... | John Tyndall | Dr Dabbs | account of death of Alfred Tennyson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'Under the date of Sunday, 20th October, 1850, I find the following [journa... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Poems including 'The Two Voices' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began... | John Tyndall | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began... | Thomas Hirst | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began... | Thomas Hirst and John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Tiresias and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Recollections of Miss Young, who accompanied her father, Captain Young, to female convict ships at Woolwich: 'On board... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from brother-in-law, T.F. Buxton, to E. Fry, Northrepps, 1 Dec 1828: 'I very quiet day yesterday, and a long ti... | Thomas Fowell Buxton | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journey into Scotland in Aug 1834 with husband and two daughters: 'At Kenmore, they enjoyed a quiet Sunday and tolerab... | Elizabeth Fry | Joseph John Gurney | Letter to a Friend on the Authority, Purpose and Effects of Chritianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an... | James | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Quakers | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Old Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of t... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Account of the gifts given to several female prisoners who burnt their playing cards: 'she called the first to her, an... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their procee... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 24pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp.... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous... | Lady E.K. | [unknown] | [Bible probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous... | Amelia Roberts | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous... | Amelia Roberts | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous... | Amelia Roberts | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous... | Amelia Roberts | [unknown] | [hymn-book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Grainger | [unknown poem praising Young] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Miss Cooper | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavourin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | The Sylph: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much p... | Mary O'Connor | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpon... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834. From the period of her conviction, her mind seems to have been exercised with a... | Mary Joy | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Andrew Erskine | [a poem on a Geranium] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She was indeed in bad health at the time of her coming to Newgate; she belie... | Mary Joy | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscriptio... | Cornelius Ford | | [an inscription] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She remained in Newgate till the month of January, when a pardon was obtaine... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit... | Charles Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit... | Frances Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Burnet | Telluris Theoria Sacra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | Eliza Cooper | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Whiston | Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | Eliza Cooper | [unknown] | Come to Jesus | Print: Book, tract |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philippe Nericault Destouches | L'Homme Singulier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes ... | | | [an epigram] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Qua... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [ladies memorandum books] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | Eliza Cooper | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & e... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Samuel Johnson | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Samuel Johnson | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested ... | | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest Englis... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [translation of a provencale ballad] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is wri... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Bar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too l... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | [Anecdotes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of ... | John Buckley Castieau | W.H. Curran | Life of J.P. Curran | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ... | Alexander Pope | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterbo... | John Hinchcliffe | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | 'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | Life and Fame | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in the morning.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at home in the evening. Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Rob Roy in the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' Read at home during the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at home in the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Maga... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Broadway Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown- newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown- periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Ea... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street bein... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the art... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a pre... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [English periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 2... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak.... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my "Copy" had been used, it did not a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discove... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I had written some week or more since on “T... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed “Robert Stout... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day] | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have be... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodical... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Critic, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Colman | Clandestine Marriage, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicholas Rowe | Fair Penitent, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philip Massinger | Fatal Dowry, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux | [a sonnet] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Walter Pope | Old Mans Wish, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | Elmerick; Or Justice Triumphant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Chevræana, ou Diverses Pensées | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anacreon | Anacreon to himself | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execut... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Lord Strafford | [letter to his daughter, 1641] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the Wor... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters, and Reflections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [translation of a French Chanson] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Fo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Psalmanazar | [articles contributed to the 'Universal History'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [e... | Mr Perkins | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's sev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Joseph Sorbiere | Sorberiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | [MS of his translations of Homer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Vincent de Voiture | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the G... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Love of Fame, The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean de La Bruyere | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministr... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a pla... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Gobli... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give hi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-mo... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner w... | John Buckley Castieau | [convict] | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazine... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [English comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner a... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she conc... | Winifred Holtby | Stella Benson | Living Alone | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.' | John Priestley | Winifred Holtby | The Runners | Manuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early ninet... | Winifred Holtby | Joseph Conrad | Suspense | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should h... | Winifred Holtby | George Moore | Heloise and Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Touchstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had p... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "B... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ''In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Illustrated [?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall... | Francis Turner Palgrave | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall... | Francis Turner Palgrave | Alfred Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Songs for inclusion in new edition of The Princess | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Some time in 1852 Tennyson read over to me his "Ode on... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Duke of Wellington | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'[William Gifford] [...], meeting Tennyson for the firs... | Alfred Tennyson | | Moallakat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'We were sitting (1857 or so) late at night in the Farr... | Alfred Tennyson | Theocritus | Hylas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew ear... | Alfred Tennyson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew ear... | Alfred Tennyson | Pindar | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew ear... | (Included) Alfred Tennyson and Francis Turner Palgrave | Lucretius | De rerum natura | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Andrew Marvell | 'The Emigrant's Song' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Andrew Marvell | 'To His Coy Mistress | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Cowper | 'Poplar Field' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Cowper | 'stanzas to Mary Unwin' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Petrarch | "Trionfo della Morte" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass... | Arthur Hugh Clough | Arthur Hugh Clough | Mari Magno | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Another little poem [collected in Palgrave's "Golden T... | Alfred Tennyson | Scott | The Maid of Neidpath | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preferen... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Paradise Lost (book IV) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'Nachgefuhl' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'Der Abschied' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 'An den Mond' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetr... | Alfred Tennyson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | poem on seeing Schiller's skull | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'In G. Meredith's first little volume he was delighted ... | Alfred Tennyson | George Meredith | 'Love in a Valley' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'On October 27th, 1886, he read aloud to me that piece ... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Locksley Hall Sixty Years After | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'In Nov. 1888 I visited Aldworth shortly after death ha... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Ulysses | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Johnson | A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As I was reading with Susan and Sophy today in Rollin's Grecian History it struck me, that when Mardonius offered Ter... | Hester Thrale and her daughters Sophy and Susanna | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demander... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francois Fenelon | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has alw... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | 'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard El... | Giovanni Povoleri | Giovanni Povoleri | [translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course:... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Marco Capello | [sonnet about Piozzi] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Odell | [verses on Franklin's stove] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up... | Samuel Johnson | Jonathan Odell | [verses on Franklin's stove] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Maria Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindic... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Horace | '8th Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giovanni Povoleri | [a sonnet on love and friendship] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abbate Buondelmonte | [a sonnet] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & se... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anne Hunter | 'North American Death Song' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | 'Cadenus and Vanessa' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Bell's Elocutionist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall f... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.' | John Buckley Castieau | Mayne Reid | The Giraffe Hunters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters... | John Buckley Castieau | Mayne Reid | The Giraffe Hunters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Manuscript: book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Third pastoral' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | 'Second Eclogue' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus
Boy! bring my Flow'rs... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | [a Song] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this M... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its In... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Savage | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Harrison | 'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [a story] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connect... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Melbourne Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of F... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her C... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Melbourne Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Touchstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretens... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Temple Bar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concer... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home bef... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su... | John Buckley Castieau | club members | The Suggestion Book | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found i... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Met... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the wh... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Ste... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking fo... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astoundin... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the name... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Soli... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ... | John Buckley Castieau | Benjamin Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson:
'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) ... | Brooke Foss Westcott | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson:
'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) ... | Brooke Foss Westcott | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860):
'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I ... | John Ruskin | Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The note by my father, that originally headed his blank verse translation from the Iliad beginning
'He ceased, and... | Alfred Tennyson | Sir John Herschel | 'Book I. of the Iliad translated in the Hexameter Metre' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868:
'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long ti... | Benjamin Jowett | Bowden | Life of Hildebrand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868):
'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, f... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Preface, The Ring and the Book | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868):
'November. The Hollies, Clapham Common. I have sent the "... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | poem on the Holy Grail | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere ... | Alfred Tennyson | Ivan Turgenev | Lisa | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'June. Aldworth. Tourgueneff [sic] the Russian novelist (whose Lisa and Pere ... | Alfred Tennyson | Ivan Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Scenes of Clerical Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871):
'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to h... | Alfred Tennyson | George Eliot | Romola | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the l... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | The Graphic | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | All the Year Round | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate c... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [placard] | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster |
| 1850-1899 | 'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interestin... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Home News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been dr... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a time | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day. Paris was a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to "The Yorick" & read the English Punches' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the "funny" periodicals' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or oppos... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Roman history] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the "Yorick" & read Punch & some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper cam... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Touchstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ' I passed the morning reading the Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then read the papers at "The Yorick"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the articl... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader"... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called at the Yorick & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in "Vanity Fair" when there was a bustling noise [... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I real... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home & finished "Vanity Fair" before tea-time.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Handy Andy | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne & read the papers at "The Yorick" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable b... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do mu... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to "The Yorick" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cric... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Graphic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was pleased with Harry. This evening he read a scene with me from the School for Scandal & showed a good deal underst... | Harry Castieau | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers ' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time' | John Buckley Castieau | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of thi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was readi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppar... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco &... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the "Yorick" & had a look over the newspapers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very ... or interesting' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Polly was so deeply interested in a ghost story written by Lord Lytton & said to be the foundation of ... | Polly Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | [ghost story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [weekly newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until af... | John Buckley Castieau | Mark Lemon | Wait for the End | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. T... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Cornhill | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor... | Polly Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor... | Walter Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor... | Sissy Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor... | Dotty Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to "the Yorick" & had a look at some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster read "Gil Blas" for a while, then played "Bezique" with Polly.' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read "Gil Blas"' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I was very lazily inclined & sat over "Gil Blas" for some time' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has ho... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch... | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how muc... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Le Fevre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alterat... | Thomas Carlyle | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | Title page and preface of 'German Romance' | Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering pro... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederick Marryat | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyag... | Thomas Carlyle | Immanuel Kant | The Critique of Pure Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late... | Thomas Carlyle | JMH Doring | Jean Paul Richters Leben | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern ... | Winifred Holtby | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he pr... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | Good Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Health" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published nove... | Vera Brittain | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.' | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I am going to call attention in this department," it ran, "to the fact that the most informing - and upsetting - boo... | May Lamberton-Becker | Winifred Holtby | Mandoa, Mandoa! | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what aut... | Robert Louis Stevenson | N. A. | 'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Sup... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Derham | Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melanc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | 'To Melancholy' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Dev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her whom I love best'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [French Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | | [English history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | | [Roman history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Alexander Pope | [translations of Homer and other works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | | [books of European travels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zadig | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Joseph Addison | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Charles Rollin | Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with wh... | David John Thomas | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'. | Dylan Thomas | | Rainbow | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands ov... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Thomas Browne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Thomas de Quincey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Henry Newbolt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Emmuska Orczy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | | Chums Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | William Blake | Songs of Innocence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | | [Border Ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently ... | Winifred Holtby | St. John Ervine | God's Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".' | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Edward Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a... | Winifred Holtby | Liddell Hart | T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to... | Winifred Holtby | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till ne... | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I stayed at home & read "Gil Blas" till it was time to go to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I went into town, called at the Yorick & looked at the Weeklies' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies ' | John Buckley Castieau | Anthony Trollope | West Indies | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club & had a glance at the Illustrated Papers & Punch which arrived by this Mail' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar... | John Buckley Castieau | Richard Harris Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullha... | John Buckley Castieau | Anthony Trollope | The Vicar of Bullhampton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly read the Australasian till she was tired & then went to bed' | Polly Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaol... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without... | Dotty Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I c... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [sign] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Club & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destro... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Park... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus E... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertise... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bough... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll wi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & M... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes ho... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | Memoirs of a physician | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Cour... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o... | Harry Castieau | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o... | Sissy Castieau | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o... | Dotty Castieau | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated &... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | anon | Review article; and 'Husbands and Wives'. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'While out to-night we purchased Whitford's stories of "Under the Dray". There is not much in them but they are decide... | Harry Castieau | Whitford | The Larrikin's Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each cop... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Chatterbox | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | Harry Castieau | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | Dotty Castieau | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | Sissy Castieau | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of do... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson' | Polly Castieau | [n/a] | Bible [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & too... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & th... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as fa... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found […] a "Courant" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertise... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Le Courant | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Eng... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | The Graphic | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marc... | Marcus Clarke | Marcus Clarke | The Jolly Beggars | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeare... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which please... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sydney Colvin | Review of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [story books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read with Harry some Dramatic [?]. Harry understands well what he reads, but is in too great a hurry & co... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe' | Polly Castieau | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to an... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '"Telo" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some l... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'He read to-night Mark Antony's Oration very fairly indeed for a boy of his age' | Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | Anthony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good ch... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard t... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [drama?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The fir... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea Harry began to read & was pretty successful with his lesson for which he was duly rewarded a mark.' | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | John Buckley Castieau | William Edmondstoune Aytoun | The Execution of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Eve of Waterloo) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [dialogue] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'heard Harry & Sissy read' | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'heard Harry & Sissy read' | Sissy Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell' | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & N... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an ac... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialog... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [n/a] | [dialogue] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly' | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly' | John Buckley Castieau | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Married Beneath Him | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Harry & I read for a long time together while mamma amused herself with the piano.' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [dialogue?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Vanity Fair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays... | Polly Castieau | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Public Opinion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beat... | John Buckley Castieau | [prisoner] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | John Buckley Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | John Buckley Castieau | Peter Parley [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standin... | James Hogg | | Shorter Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teach... | James Hogg | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. ... | James Hogg | | Bible [Psalms] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Henry the Minstrel | Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | | Nathan Bailey | Dictionarium Britannicum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standin... | James Hogg | | Bible [Proverbs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe... | James Hogg | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe... | James Hogg | | [theological books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe... | James Hogg | Thomas Burnet | Sacred Theory of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Laidlaw having a number of valuable books, which were all open to my perusal, I about this time began to read with... | James Hogg | | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far su... | James Hogg | William Hogg | 'Urania's Tour' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early' | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early' | Sissy Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to the youngsters in the evening' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The A... | Polly Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '[on receiving the first printed copies of his poems] no sooner did the first copy come to hand, than my eyes were ope... | James Hogg | James Hogg | [a pamphlet of poems] | |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I heard Harry read. He could not however get on very well & so I turned him over to his mother & playe... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote another musical drama of three acts, and showed it to Mr Siddons. He approved of it very highly, with the exc... | Mr Siddons | James Hogg | [a verse drama] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Guardian Angel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or liste... | Mr Grieve | James Hogg | 'The Queens Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or liste... | Mr Gray | James Hogg | 'The Queens Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or liste... | Mr Gray | James Hogg | 'The Queens Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or liste... | James Hogg | James Hogg | 'The Queen's Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerit... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Shops and Houses | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoke... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [drama] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church o... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothi... | George Goldie | James Hogg | 'The Queens Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scen... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Isle of Palms, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I thin... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Secret City | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Graphic | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[on a visit to his publisher, Constable] I read the backs of some books on his shelves, then spoke of my poem; but he... | James Hogg | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read for some time with Harry, he manages Shakespeare tolerably well for a boy of his age' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening played Bezique with Polly & read Shakespeare with Harry.' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[having written an imitation of Byron, Hogg got] a large literary party together, on pretence, as I said, of giving t... | Mr Ballantyne | James Hogg | [poem from] The Poetic Mirror | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechwort... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.' | Arnold Bennett | R.S. Surtees | Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked o... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have la... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the ... | William Blackwood | James Hogg | Brownie of Bodsbeck | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the ... | William Blackwood | James Hogg | Bridal of Polmood | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [prison report] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'. | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a... | Polly Castieau | [n/a] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly re... | Polly Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | [article] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | | Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read with Harry in the Evening, then played a long game of Bezique with Sissy' | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [drama?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | re: 'September'
'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . .
It is incomparably t... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | September | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his j... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his ... | James Hogg | Thomas Mouncey | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'Have you read the 'New Statesman' this week? If not, read it. I take pride in the fact that I more than anybody ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | [imitations of Ossian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | James Hogg | R.H. Cromek | Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | Mr Morrison | Allan Cunningham | 'Mermaid of Galloway, The' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some of the fine madams pointed out to him [Mr Sym] a few inadvertencies [in Hogg's "The Spy"], or, more properly, ab... | Robert Sym | James Hogg | The Spy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weec... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p... | Sissy Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p... | Dotty Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think... | John Buckley Castieau | Douglas Jerrold | A man made of money | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends' | John Buckley Castieau | Richard Harris Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home & read' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 |
'Speaking of the drama, you should read the preface to Shaw’s new book of plays. As a journalistic performance i... | Arnold Bennett | G. B. Shaw | Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets About the War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading "Gil Blas".' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 |
'I have now perused the L.M.I. & will inflict my views on you. It is on the whole what I should call a "sound" numb... | Arnold Bennett | | London Mercury | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine.... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the p... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melb... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Weekly Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of H.G.’s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Outline of History | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Dr Syntax | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'Lo... | Arnold Bennett | | London Mercury | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & r... | John Buckley Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | [papers] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | | Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed' | Polly Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Garvice | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | Florence Barclay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I tried the reading powers of Walter & Godfrey with a chapter in the testament, both of the boys have ... | Castieau children | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871' | John Buckley Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Ch... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | . . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Che... | Arnold Bennett | Anton Chekhov | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had some reading with Harry & Dotty, Dotty went to sleep but Harry joined me in a Piece & listened to my reading anot... | Castieau family | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-digg... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-digg... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelv... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to b... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mamma, Harry & myself read a scene or two from Shakspeare (sic). Harry was particularly delighted with the Witches Ch... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got home to tea & after tea listened to Polly who read a manuscript Miss McDermott wanted to get an opinion about. It... | Polly Castieau | Miss McDermott | [story] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Harry & I did some Readings. It was a great night for Harry & he did'ent go to bed till after ten o'cl... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [drama?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evide... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'read in the evening & went to bed early' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a pre... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'spent the evening at home reading' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very... | Castieau family | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very... | Castieau family | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry' | Castieau family | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading' | Polly Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served w... | John Buckley Castieau | Baker | Cast up from the sea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits alou... | John Buckley Castieau | George MacDonald | The Vicar's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" m... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at the Athenaeum.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we ha... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a lo... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light di... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three gam... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I came home I found Charley Gee engaged with our youngsters singing comic songs & making himself otherwise enter... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B... | Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Castlemaine Representative | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he... | John Buckley and Harry Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the E... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown - novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed up late reading & smoking' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by r... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Sarah Barnham | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"' | John Buckley Castieau | Max O'Rell | John Bull and his island | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes t... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Sarah Barnham | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the m... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prison... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Five Years in Penal Servitude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & wrote till bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to bed after reading for a long while' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the paragraphs about Papa. The L's sho... | Mary Arnold | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] "Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay on Pagan and Medieval Religious Se... | Mary Arnold | Matthew Arnold | Essays in Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that co... | Mary Arnold | | [Latin and German writings about early Spanish literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that co... | Mary Arnold | | [Spanish poems and chronicles] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that co... | Mary Arnold | | El Cantar de Mio Cid | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it ... | Mary Ward | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the... | Mary Ward | | [French and Spanish books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".' | Mary Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the bo... | Mr Creighton | Mary Augusta Ward | Miss Bretherton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the bo... | Mr Creighton | Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve | Volupte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Joseph Joubert | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Joseph Joubert | Correspondance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Horace | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Étienne Pivert de Senancour | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thu... | Mary Ward | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward's brother William Arnold] I served on a jury at the Assizes last week - two murder cases and ge... | Mr Amiel | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After reading the first volume [of Mrs Ward's "Robert Elsmere"] he [William Arnold] wrote to Mrs Arnold, "You may loo... | William Arnold | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 10-11 December 1791: 'As I have nothing else to say take a story I read yesterday a... | Robert Southey | Mary Wollstonecraft | Original Stories from Real Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/
The summons come the S... | Robert Southey | anon | [memorial verse] | Print: monument |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg yo... | Robert Southey | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. as I am ignorant of the tune I beg yo... | Robert Southey | Watson | Chemical Essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.' | James Boswell | John Gay | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the u... | Robert Southey | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the u... | Robert Southey | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'The bloody proceeding [a reference to a disturbance at Westmins... | Robert Southey | | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Ode | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Thomas Parnell | A Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Thomas Gray Gray | Ode on the Spring | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you f... | Robert Southey | Thomas Gray Gray | Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take th... | Robert Southey | Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I co... | Robert Southey | Euclid | Elements | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I co... | Robert Southey | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that ... | Robert Southey | | The Reply of the Delegates of the Several Parishes, and of the Castle-Precincts, in the City of Bristol, to the Report of the Committee of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in Answer to the Objections Delivered by the Delegates on the 4th of August | |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that ... | Robert Southey | Tom Paine | The Rights of Man. Part the Second | |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Some poems have been lately printed here by the Revd. E... | Robert Southey | Henry Evans Holder | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: '"Ille & nefasto te posuit die,/
Quicumque primum, & sacrile... | Robert Southey | Horace | Odes, 2:13 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: 'If the Baron of Thundertentroncks castle had not been destro... | Robert Southey | Voltaire | Candide, ou l'Optimisme | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-17 November 1792: 'I send the epitaph which at present is inscribed up... | Robert Southey | | Tombstone epitaph | Print: tomb |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the... | Robert Southey | William Chamberlayne | Pharonnida, a Heroick Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation thi... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Translation of Horace, Odes, 2:14 | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation thi... | Robert Southey | Horace | Odes, 2:14 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have read 12 Satires of Juvenal with a vast deal of p... | Robert Southey | Juvenal | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined cr... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined cr... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal A... | James Boswell and Louisa | [anon.] | Journal Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | John Dryden | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br... | James Boswell | [n/a] | The North Briton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br... | James Boswell | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening' | James Boswell | [n/a] | The North Briton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion' | James Boswell | [n/a] | [Church service] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish' | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagern... | James Boswell | [unknown] | Lives of the convicts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Thomas Carlyle | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Matthew Arnold wrote from Wilton, the Pembrokes' house, a week before his death (which occurred on April 15), that he... | guests at Wilton | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous ... | William Gladstone | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous ... | Catherine Gladstone | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous... | William Gladstone | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | William Gladstone | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | 'Confession of Faith' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | William Gladstone | Gleanings Of Past Years | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T... | Mary Augusta Ward | T.H. Green | Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t... | Janet Ward | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have n... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [books on 18th century Lancashire life] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but ... | Thomas Henry Huxley | Mary Augusta Ward | David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to Mrs Ward from Edward Burne-Jones] The book has just come - and to my pride and delight with such a pretty ... | Edward Burne Jones | Mary Augusta Ward | David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, ful... | Henry James | Mary Augusta Ward | Bessie Costrell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical critici... | John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton | | [biblical criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to th... | Robert Southey | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin (Madame de Genlis) | Theatre de l'Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to th... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mr Morley to Mrs Ward] It was most pleasant to me to receive the little volume ["Bessie Costrell"] in it... | Mr Morley | Mary Augusta Ward | Bessie Costrell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile mor... | Robert Southey | Juvenal | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile mor... | Robert Southey | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [blue books of statistics] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'Of your ode a few words before I set to transcribing... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Ode | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the sa... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [papers on Factory Law] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'This day has been a most unpleasant one all except t... | Robert Southey | Horace | Odes 4:4 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'I do not know in the annals of history & barbarity a... | Robert Southey | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Beatrice Webb to Mrs Ward about her novel "Sir George Tressady"] the story is very touching and you have... | Beatrice Webb | Mary Augusta Ward | Sir George Tressady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus ... | Robert Southey | Tacitus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus ... | Robert Southey | Heraclitus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'The man who gaind the last English verse p... | Robert Southey | George Richards | Songs of the Aboriginal Bards of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: Charles Collins has been so busy with his L... | Charles Collins | Johannes Secundus | Liber Basiorum (Book of Kisses) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my trave... | Robert Southey | John Milton | Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my trave... | Robert Southey | anon | Address to the major of Nottingham | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4-20 April 1793: 'I have lately read the Man of Feeling — if you have n... | Robert Southey | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau whic... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Confessions, Book 12 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there ga... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Humphry Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I copied these four lines from the hospital at Readi... | Robert Southey | anon | [lines at the Hospital in Reading] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Aristotle | on Logic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Pythagoras | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Antisthenes | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Zeno | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Epicurus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee... | Robert Southey | Pyrrho | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Mary Berenson’s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle ... | Arnold Bennett | Mary Berenson | [article on C18th architecture] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29-30 October 1793: 'I have laid down Gillies to write to you the third l... | Robert Southey | John Gillies | The History of Ancient Greece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very w... | Arnold Bennett | | Economic Review of the Foreign Press | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Can’t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.? It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 o... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after I had reed some of bond of the suboth, I walked abroad: and so to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Bond | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | [unsure if reading or writing?] 'then I wrett the most part of an examenation or triall of a christian, framed by Mr R... | Margaret Hoby | Richard Rhodes | [Examination of the trial of a Christian] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculo... | Arnold Bennett | Philip Gibbs | Realities of War | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell ... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridicul... | Arnold Bennett | Arthur Conan Doyle | The British Campaign in France and Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'tell supper time I hard Mr Rhodes read of Cartwright' | Richard Rhodes | Thomas Cartwright | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5' | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier an... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | Diet of the Soul | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier an... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After praier in the morninge, I, beinge not well, did heare Mr Rhodes read of Gyffard upon the songe of Sallemon: son... | Richard Rhodes | George Gifforde | Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after w... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after w... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [a book of the pews in the church] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1500-1599 | 'after I had supped, I reed of grenhame, and se went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and reed of Granhame tell supper time' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon' | Margaret Hoby | George Gifforde | Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball' | Margaret Hoby | William Turner | New herball | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I hard Mr Rhodes read tell allmost dinner time' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after that I hard one of the men read of the book of Marters, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'hard one of the men reade of the book of marters, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Aeneid I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Eclogues I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Alexander Pope | translations from Homer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850:
'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and ... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave | letters to Lord Lonsdale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 15 November 1809:
'I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 20... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | John Wilson Croker | The Battles of Talavera | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after that I walked abroade, then I Cam in and wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, then I praied with Mr Rhodes' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after the Lector I hard Helurn read of the Book of marters, and talked with Mr Rhodes, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810:
'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I h... | Spencer Perceval | William Huskisson | 'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined' | |
| 1500-1599 | 'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed' | Margaret Rhodes | [unknown] | [sermon - Revelation] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read ... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815:
'[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prin... | John Wilson Croker | Napoleon Bonaparte | letter to the Prince Regent | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied. |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I walked a while, and read of Babington, and then went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Gervase Babington | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | Timothy Bright | A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereof | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents'
on Ireland:
'The lit... | Robert Peel | 'a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash' | A Sketch of Irish History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents'
on Ireland:
'The lit... | Robert Peel | 'a priest at Longford' | letter to parishioner | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I hard Mrs Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time' | Mrs Brutnell | William Turner | New herball | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not well, partly through myne owne folly' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, hard Euerill Read, and then praied, so went to supper' | Euerill Aske | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter and wret an other' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816:
'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold III | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time: then I hard that, and so went to supper: ... and, after,... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I reed a while of the Bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after supper, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then went to priuat praier' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, hard him read, then praied, and so went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 7th. [...] The Duchess[of York]'s life is an odd one; she seld... | Duchess of York | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I Came home and reed to Mrs Ormstone' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and so read tel supper Came' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did read of the Bible and then eate my breakfast' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ... | George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales | Jonathan Swift | works (including correspondence) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I dimed, and talked with some strangers that Came to visitt me, and after, being not well, I slept a while and t... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818:
'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ... | George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales | Mrs Delany | letter containing account of Royal visit | Manuscript: Letter, Copied. |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I walked, reed of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I walked and talked with Mr Rhodes, Reed of the bible, and, after, praied' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm' | Margaret Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819:
'I have received your last number [...] As a series of ess... | John Wilson Croker | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1500-1599 | After priuat praers I did read of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read of Grenhame, and then I praied and so went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Grenhame, and so praied priuatly and then went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819:
'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review' | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, to supper, then to work, and hard readinge of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after I wrought, reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and hard Auerill reed of Grenham, and then praied' | Euerill Aske | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819:
'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little off... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan: cantos I-II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819:
'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasu... | John Wilson Croker | Crabbe | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, then I wrough and reed of the bible tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then reed a whill of perkins, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible' | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821:
'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers... | John Wilson Croker | | Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I reed a hard readinge a whill' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then reed of the bible and wrought' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'praied with Mr Rhodes, hard one read, and then went to priuat praier' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you hav... | Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool | Horace Walpole | letters to Lord Hertford | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I talked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read, then I went to dimer' | Richard Rhodes | [un | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the g... | Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool | Prior | Life of Burke | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [ardenton's book] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon' | Mr Maude | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then I reed of the bible and write in my table book, and so went to din... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Note Book:
'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sle... | King George IV and John Wilson Croker | Thomas Moore | Life of Sheridan | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I hard Mr Maud read of a sarmon book, then I praied, after dinned: then then I wrought and hard Mr Maud read a... | Mr Maude | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826:
'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose w... | Walter Scott | T. Crofton Croker | Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, the... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Mrs Ward] I am delighted to have "Sir George Tressady" from your hand. I have followe... | Rudyard Kipling | Mary Augusta Ward | Sir George Tressady | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a whil... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a whil... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praers I Reed tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825:
'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner... | John Wilson Croker | Camille Desmoulins | journal | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and after reed a while, and so went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Hel... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after that, praied priuatly, hauinge reed a Chapter of the bible, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, dispatched diuerse busenes in the house, praied, and then read of the bi... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I did reed of the bible, praied, walked a litle abroad, dinned' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, eate my breakfast, and went to Church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'then I caused one to Read vnto me' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me pe... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's notes on conversations with the Duke of Wellington at Beaudesert:
'"The Subaltern" [Mr Gl... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | Gleig | 'The Subaltern' | |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [o... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Civilta Cattolica | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1500-1599 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, then brake my fast and walked abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Tribuna | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1500-1599 | 'att :5: a cloke, I returned againe to examenation and praier: then I reed a whill and, after, went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after priuat praers I did read of the bible, brake my fast, and then went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read' | Margaret Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R... | Mary Augusta Ward | Alfred von Harnack | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Bronte... | M. Jusserand | Mary Augusta Ward | [prefaces to Haworth edition of the Brontes' novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Bronte... | M. Jusserand | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Bronte... | M. Jusserand | | [Rolls of Parliament] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Janet Penrose Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Unknown, page proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end... | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold | [private papers] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the too-long hours of that summer [while h... | Katherine Lyttelton | Joseph Joubert | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | William Arnold | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | Herbert Spencer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | boys at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | boys at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairytales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | young children at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | William Thomas Stead | [Books for the Bairns] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [newspaper interviews with herself] | Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Julia Ward Howe | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Bancroft | History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Lord Bryce to Mrs Ward] Thank you for your admirable article and for the copy of the Memorial, an effect... | | Mary Augusta Ward | 'Let women say' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Emile Faguet | Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Walter Raleigh | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dubli... | | Mary Augusta Ward | David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Reginald Smith] I heard such pleasing things about "David [Grieve]" from Lord Arran in Dubli... | army officers | Mary Augusta Ward | David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'. | Mary Augusta Ward | Wlliam James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | George Tyrrell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | William James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | | bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie, had praied and broake my fast, I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after that, I hard him read tell all most night' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers and my breakfast, I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I was in my Chamber, I praied priuatly, reed of the Testament, and then supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and againe took order of for supper and hard one of my wemen read of perkins' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I praied, reed of the bible, and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I tooke order for diner and then reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I hard Mr Rhodes Read of a good mans book, who proueth against Bis: Bilson that Christ suffered in soule the wr... | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed a Chapter of the testement, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'read tell diner time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed a whill and then did eate my breakfast' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed in perkins tell I went againe to the Church' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, tell night, I kept Companie with Mr Hoby who reed a whill of Cartwrights book to me' | Thomas Hoby | Thomas Cartwright | A Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegifte agaynst the Admonition to the Parliament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ... | Robert Southey | William Enfield | History of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Present Century | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ... | Robert Southey | John Gillies | The History of Ancient Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ... | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.' | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6-8 November 1793: 'Were men what they ought to be — Rousseau would be ... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12-15 November 1793: 'I have been reading Courtney Melmoths Liberal Opini... | Robert Southey | Courtney Melmoth [pseud.] | Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Do not imagine that I am vindicating the ... | Robert Southey | Voltaire | Candide, ou l'Optimisme | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Your plan of a general satire I am ready ... | Robert Southey | Martin Scriblerus [pseud.] | Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 11 December 1793: 'Let me turn to more chearful subjects. your verses were p... | Robert Southey | Horace Walpole Bedford | MS verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'I would recommend you to read Godwins enquiry concerni... | Robert Southey | William Godwin | Enquiry concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pock... | Robert Southey | Lucan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pock... | Robert Southey | Cesare Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana | Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishments) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pock... | Robert Southey | Thomas May | continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two thing... | Robert Southey | Phineas Fletcher | The Purple Island, or, the Isle of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two thing... | Robert Southey | Henry Headley | Select Beauties of Ancient English poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two thing... | Robert Southey | Robert Lovell | verses | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | John Milton | ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | William Collins | Ode to Evening | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Ode to Spring | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | various | Poems Chiefly by Gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | Frank Sayers | Ode to Aurora | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'Forgive egotism if I mention one circumstance which ... | Robert Southey | anon | ['sixpenny history of England'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much s... | Robert Southey | William Cowper | The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would... | Robert Southey | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of the Imagination | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would... | Robert Southey | Lucan | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'I need not tell you with what pleasure my f... | Robert Southey | Johann Wilhelm von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has writ... | Robert Southey | Richard Glover | Boadicia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has writ... | Robert Southey | Richard Glover | Medea | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'The Leonidas is a very fine poem in my opi... | Robert Southey | Richard Glover | Leonidas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. f... | Robert Southey | anon | Review of Joseph Priestley, The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies; A Sermon, Preached at the Gravel Pit Meeting in Hackney, February 28, 1794 | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. f... | Robert Southey | anon | Reviews of William Belsham's Remarks on the Nature and Necessity of a Parliamentary Reform (1793) and Memoirs of the Kings of Great Britain of the House of Brunswic-Lunenberg (1793). | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'Have you ever seen Bowles’s poems & more particularly his sonnets... | Robert Southey | William Lisle Bowles | Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written During a Tour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'My silence on natural history & natural philosophy, arose from igno... | Robert Southey | unknown | [works on science] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'Hawkesworth argues very strongly against indulging in these fanta... | Robert Southey | John Hawkesworth | The Adventurer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'How like you the gallant city of London? is it not an overgrown m... | Robert Southey | John Donne | Satyre II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'Saturday last the day I began this letter I was at... | Robert Southey | William Dell | The Doctrine of Baptisms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'I have ventured upon the drama at last. & chosen f... | Robert Southey | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 11-18 May 1794: 'Your Anacreon & Æschylus please me much — unluckily ... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | translations and verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better tha... | Robert Southey | Horace Walpole Bedford | Ode to Indolence | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20-21 July 1794: 'When Coleridges work is published you will see a Latin... | Robert Southey | Robert Allen | Ludi Scenici (unpublished) | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20-21 July 1794: 'When Coleridges work is published you will see a Latin... | Robert Southey | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ode on the slave trade | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 August 1794: 'When your ode reachd me it reminded me of neglect & I b... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | Ode | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8-9 February 1795: 'I have been reading the four first numbers of the Fl... | Robert Southey | Robert Southey (ed.) | The Flagellant | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes Read of a booke against some newe spronge vp herisies' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed a whill, after I went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrett Certaine thinges in my sermon book and did read of the bible, praied, and then dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers in the morninge I reed of the bible, and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after dinner I hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'satt with Mr Hoby tell 6: then I went to priuat examenatione and praier, and to Read of the Testament' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '...tell all most :11: a cloke: then I praied, read of the bible, dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I went about the house and then I reed of the bible tell dinner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after dinner I dressed vp my Clositte and read and, to refreshe my selfe beinge dull, I plaied and sunge to the Alphe... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie and had praied, I did read of the testemente and bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, Hard Mr Hoby read of perkins tell all most 5 a clock' | Thomas Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'brake my fast: after, reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke' | Richard Rhodes | Thomas Cartwright | A Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegifte agaynst the Admonition to the Parliament | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke' | Richard Rhodes | Bishop of Canterbury | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read tell 4 acloke' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after took a lector, read of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'tell about 3 a Cloke: then I rede of the arball' | Margaret Hoby | William Turner | New herball | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, when I Came home, I mad an end of writing my sermon, then reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Charles Baxter | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1600-1699 | 'then Mr Rhodes reed to me tell 4' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed of the bible: after, I praied and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed of the bible, praied, and lastly dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I walked a whill and hard one read' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and allmost all the afternone, I hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read, took order for supper' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read, conferred with him Vpon some thinges touchinge himselfe' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after that, I reed of perkins, hauinge som further Conference with my Cossine' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible tell diner time: then I wrought, and walked a whill, and after... | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I talked with a neighbour, then wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did break my fast, read of the bible, walked to my workmen' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did eate, then dressed my patients, reed of the bible, and then saluted some strangers' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I kept Companie tell they departed and, after, reed and talked with a yonge papest maid' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 30 January 1829:
'I [...] rejoice to learn from yourself that you are seriously... | Walter Scott | Justinian | 'Institutes and Pandects' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829:
'I understand from Mr. Murray that... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831:
'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspaper... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | | Report on John Wilson Croker's speech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 16 March 1831:
'I had read the Report of your speech in the newspaper... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | John Wilson Croker | Speech on the first Reform Bill, 4 March 1831 | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833:
'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at... | John Wilson Croker and others at home of A. Baring | | Death reports | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833:
'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at... | John Wilson Croker | | report of death of Lord Exmouth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker, 29 September 1833:
'Strange as it may seem, I have not read nor have I seen ... | Sir Robert Peel | Lord Brougham and others | 'The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament' (extracts) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the U... | John Wilson Croker | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Diary, 3 October 1834:
'I happened to mention the profuse fabrication of French Memoires,... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | Fouche | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Sir Robert Peel, 7 October 1835:
'I am glad you like Robespierre. It is only an essay, which ... | Sir Robert Peel | John Wilson Croker | article on Robespierre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev W. F. Hook to John Wilson Croker, 8 April 1839:
'Mr. Murray forwarded to me a copy of the "Quarterly Review... | T. W. Hook | William Sewell | article on 'the Oxford Divines' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sir W. Follett to John Wilson Croker, from Paris, 6 October 1840:
'We saw in Galignani yesterday that George Giffar... | Sir W. Follett | | Galignani['s Messenger?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 31 December 1840:
'I will not deny myself the satisfaction of telling... | Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington | John Wilson Croker | article on British foreign policy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'took order for dimer, reed of the bible, walked abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I dressed my patients, reed, talked with a neighbour, praied, then dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] speci... | Frederic Harrison | Mary Augusta Ward | Case of Richard Meynell, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] speci... | Frederic Harrison | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] speci... | Frederic Harrison | | Essays and Reviews | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe' | Thomas Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read, and wrought, took order for supper' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did read of the bible, then wret in my sermon book' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Having asked Lord Rosebery for a Preface to her "England's Effort"] Knowing that he was never strong, she fully expe... | Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Mary Augusta Ward | England's Effort | Print: proofs |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did eate, read, and then goe to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did eate, heare Mr Rhodes read, dressed my patients' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from... | Mary Augusta Ward | | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'took a lector, reed of the testament, praied with Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Vic... | Hastings Anderson | Mary Augusta Ward | Fields of Victory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[whilst Mrs Ward suffered her last illness] her son and her daughters took turns in reading to her the poets that she... | Mary Augusta Ward | | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praer I did read, break my fast, and then went with Mr Hoby to the Garden' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed a whill of another good book, and then went to priuat medetations and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch... | Arnold Bennett | Henri Beyle [Stendhal] | Lucien Leuwen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch... | Arnold Bennett | Henri Beyle [Stendhal] | La Chartreuse de Parme | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itse... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then wrought, reed, and wrett tell diner tim' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and obsarued mine accustomed exercises tell night' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed of the bible, went about the house, praied, and after dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I took order for supper and read abroad with Mr Hoby' | Thomas and Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did eate, tooke a lector, reed of the bible and testement, and then dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I hard the sarmon and after reed of a good book tell supper time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and was busie deliueringe some monie' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly adm... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Captives | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought and hard one read of the book of Marters' | Margaret Hoby | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had praied I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes read tell dinner time' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I reed of the Testemente and so to supper, then to publeck praers, and so to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only me... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Nichols | Guillty Souls | Print: completed draft of play |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romant... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praers I did goe about the house and, hauing dune som busenes, I did eate a litle, read, and lastly dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did read, eate, and went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had praied and reed, some of my freinds came, with whom I talked' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I reed, talked with my phesition and som other gentlewemen, and so went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Streaks of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno... | Arnold Bennett | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno... | Arnold Bennett | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have bee... | Arnold Bennett | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke' | Thomas Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene gen... | Arnold Bennett | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larouss... | Arnold Bennett | | Grand Larousse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ... | Arnold Bennett | H Hamer [anon] | Roasted Angels | |
| 1900-1945 | 'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountr... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.' | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Island of Typhoeus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I walked awhill, and after reed of Mr Broughtons booke' | Margaret Hoby | Hugh Broughton | Master Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answered | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I had praied, I took a litle phesick and then I reed of Mr Browghtons book' | Margaret Hoby | Hugh Broughton | Master Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answered | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Proust | Du Coté chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I got vp and was lett blood: then I made me readie and went to priuat praier and reeadinge of the bible, as I was wonte' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I dinned, then I walked about with my mother and reed, tell towardes night: then I praied priuatl... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers, I reed of the bible and walked about before dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I was busie in the house, and walkinge and reading tell supper time' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Les Freres Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Victor Margueritte | La Garconne | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed of the bible tell all most Church time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Paul Margueritte | Le Désastre | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did read, eate, and so went to Church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I went about a whill, and reed a praier, and then went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [prayer] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went about tell supper time and reed of the Testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then went to priuat praer and reed a whill, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went to supper, then I reed, and lastly went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I went about the house when I had reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, went about the house and reed a whill, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I wrought tell all most 5 a cloke, and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I Came home and praied priuatly and reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of the principles of poperie out of one of their owne bookes' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I Came home, I read of the bible, wrought, and after dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I did eate, read, and after went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praere I did read to my wemen' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of a popeshe booke' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I brake my fast, wrought, hard Mr Rhodes Read, took a lector' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrough and hard Mr Rhodes reead' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes' | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, when I had reed a whill, I went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed a whill and praied, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I kept in my Chamber workinge tell allmost night and hard my Cosine Isons Read' | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The minutes of the first meeting were read and confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | minutes of XII Book Club meeting | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [paper on Annie Wood Besant's 'An Autobiography'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Frederick J. Edminson | Annie Wood Besant | Autobiography, An | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Harold J. Morland | Andrew Martin Fairbairn | Place Of Christ In Modern Theology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Frederic Harrison | Meaning of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [minutes of XII Book Club meeting] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'. | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on William Watson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'. | Alfred Rawlings | William Watson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Secretary read a paper on the poetry of William Watson and with Miss Pollard gave illustrative readings'. | Bertha M. Pollard | William Watson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [XII Book Club minutes] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated' | John Luther Hawkins | John Luther Hawkins | [paper of Stopford Brooke's 'Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed'. | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated' | John Luther Hawkins | Stopford Brooke | Tennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A letter from H.W. Jones resigning membership in the Club was read' | Alfred Rawlings | H.W. Jones | [letter resigning from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club Meeting] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Burgess | Frederick Burgess | [paper on matthew Arnold as man and politician] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Matthew Arnold as essayist] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Adelaide Morland | Adelaide Morland | [paper on Matthew Arnold as poet] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Adelaide Morland | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Edminson | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Burgess | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following readings were also given:
The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds
Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B... | Bertha Pollard | Matthew Arnold | 'Rugby Chapel' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following readings were also given:
The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds
Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B... | John Luther Hawkins | Matthew Arnold | 'Dover Beach' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following readings were also given:
The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds
Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B... | Florence Hawkins | Matthew Arnold | 'Forsaken Merman, The' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed, praied, and went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came in I reed, praied, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'all the followinge I went about and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell my time of priuat examenation and praier' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after priuat praers I reed, walked and medetated' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie I was Called to some busenes, which dine I went to priuat praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed and went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of Grenhame' | Richard Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had gone about some busenes I praied priuatly, and after reed and took a lecture' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, when I Came in, I reed a litle of humanitie, and then went to priuat examenation and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I went to work and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie, I praied, went about the house, took a lecture, reed of the bible, praied, and went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I wrett notes in my testement, reed a whill, and went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I reed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed of the bible, after praied and so went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did read of the bible and then went about the house' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I did eate, read a whill, and then went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I withdrew my selfe and reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I Came in, I wrought and reed tell 5 a cloke' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed a whill and so went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to J. H. Jesse, 5 December 1843:
'I am much obliged by your kind attention in sending me your Se... | John Wilson Croker | J. H. Jesse | (apparently) Selwyn and His Contemporaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846:
'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[... | John Gibson Lockhart | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The New Timon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846:
'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of ... | Henry Brougham | | Bedford Letters vol 3 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847:
'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, whic... | John Wilson Croker | anon | 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 30 June 1847:
'I have read your article in the Quarterly and think it q... | Lord George Bentinck | John Wilson Croker | article on Parliament and Irish Catholics | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847:
'I have got the Quarterly and am highly delighted with ... | Lord George Bentinck | John Wilson Croker | 'Peel Policy' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847:
'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention ... | Lord George Bentinck | | Manchester Monthly Trade Circular | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847:
I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the par... | Lord George Bentinck | | Hansard (parliamentary reports) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sir James Graham to John Wilson Croker, 18 September 1847:
'I have read in the newspapers with great regret, but wi... | Sir James Graham | | report of death of Lady Follett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | The Earl of Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, in response to a query regarding quotation from Homer by Thucydides, 1 Sep... | Earl of Aberdeen | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charles Arbuthnot to John Wilson Croker, 7 December 1848:
'That I had the greatest regard and affection for my depa... | Charles Arbuthnot | C. W. Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, editor | Correspondence, Dispatches, and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849:
'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article.
... | Bishop of Exeter | John Wilson Croker | article on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Duke of Rutland to John Wilson Croker, 7 May 1849:
'I read with much interest your review of Macaulay's book. I... | Duke of Rutland | John Wilson Croker | review of Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Arthur Young | Travels in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Arthur Young | 'northern tour' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Arthur Young | Farmer's Calendar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Arthur Young | A Tour in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Xenophon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Mechi | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Huxtable | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51):
'And so you are reading my Bozzy'. | Henry Brougham | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, 21 February 1851:
'In reading Lord Holland's book, which I did very cursorily,... | Lord Aberdeen | Henry Richard Lord Holland | Foreign Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Stanley to John Wilson Croker, 22 March 1851:
'There is at the moment an utter break up of all parties, except... | Lord Stanley | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853:
'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to beco... | John Wilson Croker | Benjamin Disraeli | 'Buckinghamshire speeches' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Strangford to John Wilson Croker, 30 July 1853:
'You must think me an ungrateful brute not to have given you s... | Lord Strangford | John Wilson Croker | review of Lord John Russell, Memoirs of [Thomas] Moore | Print: revised (?proof) sheets |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charlotte Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Maria Edgeworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Theodore Hook | Gilbert Gurney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Dickens | short fictions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]:
'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croke... | Lord Lyndhurst | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]:
'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croke... | Lord Lyndhurst | Macknight | Benjamin Disraeli: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]:
'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croke... | Lord Lyndhurst | W. Vernon-Harcourt | pamphlet attacking Lord Derby | |
| 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857:
'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yeste... | John Wilson Croker | | article on Duke of Wellington | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did read, then I wrought a peece of work for a freind' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I made me readie, and then went to work and hard Mr Rhides read of Latimers sarmons and some othe... | Richard Rhodes | Hugh Latimer | Fruteful Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat I stoudied my lecture and, after, I I took a newe, wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible' | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had praied I went about the house, then I hard Mr Rhodes read, took a lecture, praied, wrought, and went to d... | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I praied and dined, and then I talked with my Mother and reed to hir' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed, praied, and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had praied I brake my fast: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought tell allmost dinner time' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie and had praied, I went about the house, wrought a whill, reed, and praied' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I reed and went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after diner I talked of the sarmon, and reed of the bible with some Gentlewemen that were with me' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I spent the after none in my Chamber and hard Mr Rhodes read a book that was mad, as it was saied, by my lord of Esex... | Richard Rhodes | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | Apology of the Earl of Essex against those who falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of this kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I had ben a whill about the house, I reed of the testement and then praied and examened my selfe' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then, towardes night, I wrett to my Cosine bouser, and reed of the Testement, and then went to priuat examenation... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I did read and went about the house, and, after I had broken my fast, I went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, dined: and then I talked and reed to some good wiffes that was with me' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I went againe to the church, and, after, I reed of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed of the bible, and then went to priuatt praier and, after publeck, so to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I went about the house, and, hauinge eaten some thinge, I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after returned to priuat praier and readinge of the testement' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I went about the house, reed of the testement, wrett some medetation that I had the day before' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed of the bible, and after returned to priuat medetation and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I reed and went to church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I went about and wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read, and praied with him, and so went to supper' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'when I had talked a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read 2 chapters of the Testement, I went to priuat praers and so to bed' | Richard Rhodes | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I diner I made an end of writinge my sarmon, then I walked, Red, and wrought' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then walked abroad into the feedles' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I sung a psalme with some of the saruants and, lastly, reed a chapter, praied, and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed a whill to my mother, and then went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I talked and reed to some good wiues that dined [with] me' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 5 March 1853:
'At 6 I went down again to the [workmen's] Room and to my surprise found the library finished and fur... | Dowlais Iron Company workers | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 19 March 1853:
'I turned into the workmen's Room for a moment [...] About a dozen men were enjoying the smoking roo... | Dowlais Iron Company workers | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As if she had not already enough to occupy her mind [with business and legal affairs following her first husband's de... | Lady Charlotte and Ivor Guest | Euclid | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 14 June 1853: 'Another lovely morning, Euclid tilll 8.' | Lady Charlotte Guest | Euclid | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 24 June 1853:
'Mr. White [doctor] came early and found Mr. Schreiber much the same [with feverish illness]. He had ... | Lady Charlotte Guest | | The Prayer Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 26 June 1853:
'Went to Mr. Schreiber before going to Church [...] I certainly thought him weaker and less well. I r... | Lady Charlotte Guest | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 27 June 1853:
'After breakfast [...] Mrs. Schreiber [visiting her sick son Charles] asked me if I would read to the... | Lady Charlotte Guest | | The Prayer Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 6 July 1853:
'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.' | Lady Charlotte Guest | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales (Prologue) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The strike [at Dowlais Iron Company works] being over, Lady Charlotte left Dowlais for Canford. She stopped in London... | Lady Charlotte Guest | Bode | Ballads from Herodotus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At Dowlais again alone [following period spent in London and elsewhere], the day's record started prosaically: "Works... | Lady Charlotte Guest | Euclid | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 February 1854:
'After breakfast I walked with my boys [i.e. two of her sons] to Trinity College [Cambridge]. The... | Lady Charlotte Guest | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 3 April 1854:
'At Basingstoke I got The Times, where I expected to find a very violent tirade against Henry Layard ... | Lady Charlotte Guest | | report on Parliamentary speech of Henry Layard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 19 May 1854:
'My birthday [...] No cause of congratulations to me, alas, to have completed another year, when more ... | Lady Charlotte Guest | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | My Novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 14 June 1854 [following account of morning spent sitting for portrait to Watts, and attending two business meetings]:
... | Lady Charlotte Guest | | biography of Hartley Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspape... | Thomas Carlyle | Signed as 'Q' | Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas Carlyle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 22 November 1854:
'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and... | Ivor Guest | | The Golden Beetle | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 22 November 1854:
'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and... | Lady Charlotte Guest, Ivor Guest, Monty Guest, Charles Schreiber | | report of Crimea battle [?Inkermann] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 17 March 1856:
'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much int... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Frances Burney D'Arblay | Memoirs of Dr Burney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 17 March 1856:
'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much int... | Charlotte Bertie | Frances Burney D'Arblay | Memoirs of Dr Burney | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times
'"[.... | Charles Schreiber | | article on new method of iron production | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 16 July 1857:
'Sitting alone at breakfast I took up the paper and saw in the military intelligence that Montague [s... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | military intelligence column | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I bought and read Aldous Huxley's essay Vulgarity in Literature. It's a surprisingly powerful thing, one of tho... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | Aldous Huxley | Vulgarity in Literature | |
| 1850-1899 | 3 November 1857:
'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. S... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred Tennyson | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shal... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | Matthew Arnold | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at the time of praier, I returned to priuat examenation, praier, and reading: after, I went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed, did eate my breakfast, and then went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe ... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed, wrett diuers notes' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I went about the house, and, after I had reed of the bible and praied' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after, when I had praied and reed of the bible, I dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I reed and so went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, I hard a good booke reed by Mr Vrpeth, and sonne after I went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I reed of the bible, talked [with] some of my freindes, praied, and then went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I hard Mr Ardington Read of Grenhame vnto me' | Mr Ardington | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed of Mr Ardington's booke, and then did eate my breakfast' | Margaret Hoby | Ardington | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [sermon] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [sermon] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I went to work and hard readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed and praied and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I went to the Church when I had reed and eaten somethinge ... and when I had reed a whill, I went... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrought and hard Mr Genking Read tell 4 a cloke' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I dined, I wrought, walked and reed tell allmost night' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed, praied, was busie about waxe lights, and then I dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier: then to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I was busie in the kitchine allmost all the after none, and then I reed of the bible, and so went to priuat exam... | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me' | Thomas Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I Continewed my orderarie exercises of praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I took accountes, did reead of the bible, praied, and walked, and so dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier and readinge a whill I went to the church ... then dined: after, I talked [with] some of my neigh... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, ... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and then I wrought tell allmost diner time' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I went to worke tell dinner time: after, I wrought and reed, and was accompened with Mr Edward Ga... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I brake my fast and wroug, reed of the bible, and then praied and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I praied, reed of the bible, and went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after I had reed and praied, I went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and after I dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and wrett a letter to Mr Rhodes: then I dined ... and after I went to my book... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I reed, and talked with Mr Vrpith' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praiers I went to readinge: then I was busie tell diner time ... then I returned home, and reed, and aft... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then I reed a sarmon, and so, hauinge praied, went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I went about and reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I went to Read a whill and, when I had praied, I went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after I had dined I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I went to worke, and read, and so, when I had praied and supped, I went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I wrette to Mr Rhodes, and reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After prairs, I reed and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thou... | Joseph Conrad | H. G.(Herbert George) Wells | New Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed, and walked to the Comune Garden' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praiers I reed, and wrett to Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I busied myself in my Chamber and then went to priuatt readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge dow... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, when he was gome, I went to priuat praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after supper I went againe to priuat praier and reading, and so to bed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to p... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in w... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very we... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Fifth Queen Crowned | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I reed ouer certaine papers of instruction [which] I had receiued from Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Rhodes? | [papers of instruction] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Cam home I was pained in the toothach which Continewed with me 4 days after, in which time I exercised praing... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praiers And readinge I went to diner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuatt praier I went to readinge and worke tell diner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home Mr Hoby rede to me a sarmon of Vdale' | Thomas Hoby | John Udall | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I, beinge not well, praied and reed in mine owne chamber' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Commentary | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day was rainie so that I Could nor durst goe abroad but exersised in the house, with prainge and reading and sin... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuatt prairs I went to my worke, after I had reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After prairs I went to work, and, hauinge reed a Litle, I talked with some that Came to Dine with vs' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praiers I brake my fast and reed' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuatt praiers I reed of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After, I went to priuat readinge and medetation' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading th... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Holy Mountain | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardingto... | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardingto... | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'before diner I praied and read of the bible' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I praied and reed, dined' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Con... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Con... | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I returned in to my Chamber, and there reed and praied tell all most I went to supper' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'the rest of the day, after the afternone sermon, I spent in readinge, singing, praing, and hearinge repeticions' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After prairs and readinge I kept Mr Gatt Companie' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after Diner, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, walked about with Hoby, and then returned to priuatt reading and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went about the howse, and then reed and wrought a whill before diner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I went to priuatt prairs and medetation and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After I had reed and praied I went about the house' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, after, went to readinge and preparation for the next day' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I... | Mr Stillington | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly' | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after went to readinge and medetation' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bibl... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bibl... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr perkins new booke' | Richard Rhodes | William Perkins | A warning against the idolatrie of the last times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin' | Richard Rhodes | William Perkins | A warning against the idolatrie of the last times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so went to bed' | Mr Aston | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I found Jessie crazy with tooth ache which lasted all day, and transported--it's the only word for it--with admiratio... | Jessie Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | A Little Tour in France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.'
Hence... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | Mr. Apollo | Print: BookManuscript: proofs |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read: after diner I went abroad, and when I come home I dresed some sores: afte... | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me' | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi... | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi... | Richard Rhodes | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | Apology of the Earl of Essex against those who falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of this kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read' | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | Spinster of this Parish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I went to the church, and, after, I Came from thence, I praied and reed: after, I dined: then, I talked ... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I reed, and wrought tell :2: a cloke' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied againe before diner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | | Notable British Trials | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a good booke' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat prairs I went about the house and wrought amonge my Maides, and hard one read of the Booke of Marters' | | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church: after, I Came home, and after diner I reed a Litl... | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Some Impressions of my Elders | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine: after I Came home and that I had dined, I talked of good ... | | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after diner, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and, sonne after, went to priuatt prairs and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad' | Margaret Hoby | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Kate read a chapter' | Kate | [n/a] | Bible [?] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat prairs I reed of Mr perkins, and after went to the church' | Margaret Hoby | William Perkins | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I praied, dined, and reed, and Conferred of good thinges to such wemen as dined with me' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Geoffrey Lapage | Tommy Fidler | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Geoffrey Bullough | From Bondage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Kate Simmonds | The Best Policy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'at my accustomed Hower, I returned to priuatt readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'hard Mr Rhodes read of the true diCeplen of christes church' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | Book of Discipline | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and wrough, hard Mr Ardington read, and singe psa: tell I went to priu... | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | .. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Men Like Gods | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I busied my selfe about the house, and hard some readinge, and after I went to priuatt praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the afternone Mr Ardington Reed to me' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After prairs I wrought, and hard Mr Ardington Reed' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture. I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think th... | Arnold Bennett | | Adelphi | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'After prairs I wrought, as I was accustomed, with my maides, and hard Mr Ardington read: and, after I had dined and h... | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then read and praied priuatly' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after diner I went about, and walked abroad, and hard Mr Ardington read' | Mr Ardington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuatt praiers I reed, and kept Companie with Mrs Girlington and diuers that Came' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and att night, I had read a letter that Came from Mr Rhodes' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Rhodes | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Trees and Babies and Papas and Mamas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I perused Iohn wass his accussinge Letter, I went to priuatt praier' | Margaret Hoby | John Wass[e] | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'After piruatt praier I went about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes read' | Richard Rhodes | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | Katherine Mansfield | The Samuel Josephs | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day and the next I went about the house, after I had hard Kate [read] a chapter' | Kate | [n/a] | Bible [?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | | Mr Joiner and the Bible | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'after the sarmon and dimer, I reed to the wiues and talked of the sarmon' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reed to the good wiffes, as I had wont, after dinner' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner I reed to some good neighbours' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I Continewed well, I thanke god, these daies: and reed some medetations of the Lady Bowes hir Makinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian prefa... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the who... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Vie de Jeanne d'Arc | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at Night went to priuatt praier, after Mr Hoby had reed vnto me some notes of Mr Egertons Lecturs' | Thomas Hoby | Egerton | [lectures] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day I Continewed to heare, and read, and pray, I praise god, [with] much Comfort as before' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Bodkin | Adrien van de Venne | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'I haue Continewed my duties or praier and readinge, both findinge my corruption and receiuinge stringth | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and hard from my Cossine Arthur dakine: and so, in the afternone likewise, hard some readinge of a book he sent me' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Nichols | Golgotha & Co. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni... | Arnold Bennett | Aldous Huxley | On the Margin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almo... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Dostoevsky | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtou... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Eternal Husband | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the after none, when she was Gon, I reed a Little of Mr Rogers book to Anne france' | Margaret Hoby | Thomas Rogers | A pretious book of heavenly meditations, called a private talk of the soule with God | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'towarde Night I went to my accostomed exercises of Readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'priuatt praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after the exercises I went to readinge and priuatt praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner went into the Garden, vntill I retourned to priuat praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and at night I went to priuatt readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and in the afternone I went to priuatt prairs and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and at night returned to priuat readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and towardes night I went to priuatt readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after they were gone I retourned to Readinge and priuat praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after went to priuatt praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'towardes Night I went to priuatt praier and readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after I had praied I went to readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at Night I went to priuatt readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and towardes night went to priuatt readinge and praier' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'priuat Readinge' | Margaret Hoby | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appa... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so rid... | Robert Southey | John Dryden | Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all th... | Robert Southey | Erasmus Darwin | Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. S... | Robert Southey | | Proverbs, 13:12 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. S... | Robert Southey | Publius Papinius Statius | Thebaid | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutze... | Joseph Conrad | Leo Tolstoy | The Death of Ivan Illyich and other stories | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 September 1795, 'Grosvenor I have a curiosity for you. two sonnets by J... | Robert Southey | James Jennings | Sonnets on Metaphor and Personification | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'A good phrase of Sir P Sidneys for looking foolish. "... | Robert Southey | Sir Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first | Robert Southey | Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platiere | Appel a L’Impartiale Postérité | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first | Robert Southey | Helen Maria Williams | Letters from France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Experience never wasted her lesson on a less fit p... | Robert Southey | William Godwin | Enquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. ... | Robert Southey | Robert Nares | Review of work by Southey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. ... | Robert Southey | Richard Cumberland | The Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essay... | Robert Southey | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essay... | Robert Southey | Joseph Cottle | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Curious beginning of an alchemistical receipt. “... | Robert Southey | anon | "alchemical receipt" | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Your stanza on Hope may be made excellent. your tr... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | verses on Hope | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'If you print your Musæus print the Greek likewise... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | The Loves of Hero and Leander | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 23 October 1795, 'Have you seen the Mæviad? the poem is not equal to... | Robert Southey | William Gifford | The Mæviad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 21-22 November 1795, 'This is a foul country. the tinners inhabit the ... | Robert Southey | Samuel Johnson | A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But "La leçon bien apprise" is really quite....And what is wrong with "Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine"? I don't like ... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine, and La Leçon bien apprise see also additional comments | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that... | XII Book Club members | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that... | Harold J. Morland | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A part reading from the Midsummer Night Dream was then given, nearly all the members present taking part - after that... | Adelaide Morland | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with fa... | Robert Southey | Lope Felix de Vega Carpio | La Hermosura de Angelica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with fa... | Robert Southey | Pedro de Azevedo Tojal | Carlos Reduzido, Inglaterra Illustrada | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with fa... | Robert Southey | Tomás de Iriarte | Fábulas Literarias | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Helen Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1796, 'We remained five days at Coruña — the only place ... | Robert Southey | Alexander Jardine | Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal &c. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Edminson | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Constance Wallis | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on Wordsworth and Poetic Diction] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Jo... | Robert Southey | Leopold Graf von Berchtold | An Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Patriotic Travellers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'a short paper on Wordsworth and Poetic diction was read by the Secretary' | Alfred Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Jo... | Robert Southey | Leopold Graf von Berchtold | Ensaio Sobre a Extensão dos Limites da Beneficiencia a Respeito, Assim dos Homens Como dos Mesmos Animaes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'I have so much to read & lose so much time in this detestable visitin... | Robert Southey | | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed.' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'I have seen the B. Critic. stupid hounds not to prefer the Monody! ho... | Robert Southey | | British Critic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Harold J. Morland | Harold J. Morland | [paper on William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Harold J. Morland | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Take a sonnet for the Ladies imitated from th... | Robert Southey | Bartolomè Leonardo de Argensola | sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Adelaide Morland | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic... | Robert Southey | Timothy Dwight | The Conquest of Canaan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic... | Robert Southey | David Humphreys | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant p... | Robert Southey | Thomas Burnett | The Sacred Theory of the Earth | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant p... | Robert Southey | Thomas Burnett | De Statu Mortuorum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | The Lusiad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | William Hayley | An Essay on Epic Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | anon | Spanish Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Bird: 'last Monday week, the 29th of December, about half-past nine o'cl... | Joseph Bird | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas James Francis: 'On the morning of the 17th of April, 1834, I saw three m... | William Goodwin | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Forster: 'I had heard of his loss, and seen an advertisement in the Time... | Joseph Forster | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
Philip Farmer: 'Q. How came you here to-day? A. I saw it in the newspaper... | Philip Farmer | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news... | Benjamin Murray | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news... | Benjamin Murray | [n/a] | [handbill] | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sunday—on the 1st of January I was in... | Henry Wignall | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
William Spicer: 'On the 28th of December I had been at home the whole day, ... | William Spicer | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
Charles Baldwin: 'On Tuesday, the 6th of June, I read this advertisement in... | Charles Baldwin | [n/a] | Morning Advertiser | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for bigamy:
Mrs Webb: 'after she was separated from her husband, she read in the newspape... | Elizabeth Burden | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
John Dawson: 'about a year and nine months ago, I saw an advertisement in t... | John Dawson | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in... | Mary Ann Hatton | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Peto: 'On Sunday night, the 26th of August, Bostock came to my house, abou... | William Stubbs | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Frederick Cooper: 'I remember reading in the newspaper, that the prisoner wa... | Frederick Cooper | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Gollinos: 'on Saturday morning, the 26th of January, I was reading in th... | Robert Gollinos | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for s... | Jonas Levy | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Edward Smith: 'On the 17th of June I was at the Feathers public-house, in Oxfor... | Edward Smith | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do no... | Edward Smith | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyanc... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | A Poor Man's House | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Smith: 'There was a gentleman in the tap-room, reading the newspaper... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Charles Blakeley Brown: 'On the 3rd of December, I read this advertisement in t... | Charles Blakeley Brown | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for murder:
Charlotte Peolaine: 'Q. Had the parcel been left with you before you heard of ... | Charlotte Peolaine | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced ... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] Lucas | Over Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
John Henry Bradley: 'I heard no more of it till I saw in the newspaper that th... | John Henry Bradley | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for conspiracy:
Mr Deller: 'I believe I am a judge of the value of gold—I have been a pa... | Mr Deller | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Samuel Birchfield: 'About eleven o'clock, on the 26th of February, I left my ho... | Samuel Birchfield | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
John Kissick: 'On the 10th of November, the prisoner came into my shop, in Tott... | Edward Holmes | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[...]the 2 vols of my uncle's memoirs which I have by me, to refresh my recollections and settle my ideas.' [while st... | Joseph Conrad | Tadeusz Bobrowski | Pamietniki | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Eliza Warr: 'Q. What did the prisoner do there from one o'clock till after thre... | Eliza Warr | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Catherine Stewart: 'I remember the night of Shrove Tuesday—he was at home wit... | William Keep | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for violent theft:
George Verry: 'the only thing that induced me to appear as a witness wa... | George Verry | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Lincoln: 'I had heard "worked money" spoken of by my master, and had rea... | Robert Lincoln | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for deception:
Frederick Skerratt: 'I then saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, s... | Frederick Skerratt | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
James Dignum: 'I had heard something about the state of Lord Fitzgerald's healt... | James Dignum | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Reeves: 'he was reading the newspaper—it might have been for half an h... | William Hatton | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
William John Boden: 'Q. Where were you? A. In the parlour—the door was open... | William John Boden | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for wounding:
Thomas Waller: 'I was sitting reading the newspaper when the prisoner came in' | Thomas Waller | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Edmund Fargens: 'I afterwards saw a paragraph in the newspaper, in consequence... | Edmund Fargens | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Esther Lane: 'she had had half a pint of beer, and been reading the newspaper' | Jane Barnett | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Frederick Shaw: 'Q. Were there any persons at the tap? A. There was one person ... | | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for deception:
William Angerstein: 'At the time in question I was staying with my father a... | William Angerstein | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for deception:
William Godfrey: 'I was reading the newspaper on the Friday morning that I... | William Godfrey | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[By 1800, when George Grote was five years old] Mrs. Grote had already taught him to read and write at home, and had ... | Selina and George Grote | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to "lock up" [the family banking-house]... | George Grote | | classical texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | | historical texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st... | George Grote | | 'metaphysics' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With George W. Norman he [George Grote] kept up a steady and intimate intercourse [...] They read books in common, ch... | George Grote and George W. Norman | | historical and political texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With George W. Norman he [George Grote] kept up a steady and intimate intercourse [...] They read books in common, ch... | George Grote and George W. Norman | | 'Political Economy' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816:
'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy i... | George Grote | Sismondi | history of Italy (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | Lucretius | De rerum natura | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | Seneca | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young pu... | George Grote | Jeremy Bentham | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1818):
'Tuesday, Sept, 22nd, 1818.
'Rose at 7.... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | Economie politique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | Economie politique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading S... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'September 30th. At Badgemore ... | George Grote | Lord Shaftesbury | 'letter on Enthusiasm' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'September 30th. At Badgemore ... | George Grote | Lord Shaftesbury | 'letter on Enthusiasm' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'September 30th. At Badgemore ... | George Grote and sister | | German Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Thursday, October 8th.
'Rose so... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | | 'Dissertation on Virtue' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Thursday, October 15th, 1818.
'... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Turgot | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Jean Baptiste Say | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Tuesday, October 20th.
'Rose at... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Tuesday, October 20th.
'Rose at... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Having passed a sleepless night ... | George Grote | Turgot | [Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Having passed a sleepless night ... | George Grote | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C... | George Grote and Charles Cameron | David Ricardo | 'Political Economy' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'Political Economy' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C... | George Grote, George Norman, and Charles Cameron | | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Saturday -- Rose at 1/... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Laocoon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | Melon | 'Essai sur le commerce' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass... | George Grote | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 'theological writings' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Read part of the first book of Aristotl... | George Grote | Aristotle | Politics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th centur... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Isle of Typhoeus | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Letters were read from Mr Hawkins and Mr Burgess resigning membership in the Society' | Alfred Rawlings | Frederick Burgess | [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Letters were read from Mr Hawkins and Mr Burgess resigning membership in the Society' | Alfred Rawlings | John Hawkins | [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write abou... | Joseph Conrad | Anatole France | L'Ile des Pingouins | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme included [...] a Shakespearean reading in the garden from the Tempest in which many members and some vi... | Members of the XII Book Club, and guests | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well a... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Woodd Nevinson | The New Spirit in India | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [paper on The Tempest] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | William Shakespeare | Tempest, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed.' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Fisher of Men | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Kingsley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Pattie Stansfield | Charles Kingsley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Lilian Goadby | Charles Kingsley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Kingsley as religious leader] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Kingsley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 May, 1796: 'The reliance that I can place on my own application ren... | Robert Southey | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults... | Robert Southey | Joseph Fawcett | The Art of War | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults... | Robert Southey | Edward Young | The Complaint, or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Warburton has said that the Epic is arrived at perfection & ... | Robert Southey | William Warburton | 'A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aeneis’ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Suc... | Robert Southey | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Suc... | Robert Southey | Thomas Holcroft | The Adventures of Hugh Trevor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Lewis’s Monk I have not seen — [material scored out] Suc... | Robert Southey | William Godwin | Things as They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'The Cambridge Intelligencer has this day informed me that G... | Robert Southey | | Cambridge Intelligencer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'Christian went a long way to fling off his burden in the Pil... | Robert Southey | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earli... | Robert Southey | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earli... | Robert Southey | Joseph Hall | Resolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Cases of Conscience, in continual Use amongst Men | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'In the second chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon & ... | Robert Southey | | Wisdom of Solomon 2:23 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'But the other ballad of Bürger in the M. Magazin... | Robert Southey | William Taylor | Lenora | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'Have you read Cabal & Love? in spite of a transla... | Robert Southey | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Cabal and Love | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hasting... | Robert Southey | Charles Collins | On Hastings Castle | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on Le Gallienne's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Alfred Rawlings | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Alfred Rawlings | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'I have now read the Monk — & admire the delicacy of Le... | Robert Southey | Matthew ("Monk") Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the ... | Robert Southey | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | The Ghost Seer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the ... | Robert Southey | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | Fiesco; or the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'Somebody (a painter I believe — Tresham?) has [MS torn... | Robert Southey | Henry Tresham | The Sea-Sick Minstrel; or, Maritime Sorrows. A Poem, in Six Cantos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Helen Rawlings | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 2 September 1796: 'IN your Magazine for June, a Correspondent, ... | Robert Southey | | Monthly Magazine (June 1796) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Edminson | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [Paper on Life of Fitzgerald and Omar's Philosophy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I have been reading Sidney Biddulph. ... | Robert Southey | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Charles Stansfield | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I wish I could give you a satisfactory... | Robert Southey | John Donne | Satyre II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read ... | Robert Southey | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read ... | Robert Southey | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Etudes de la Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 8 December, 1796: 'I have just read Carlyles Arabic Translations — Zoun... | Robert Southey | Joseph Dacre Carlyle | Specimens of Arabian Poetry, From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Kaliphat, with some Account of the Authors | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Alfred Rawlings | Robert Browning | 'One Word More' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'May and Death' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'Prospice' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Frederick J. Edminson | Robert Browning | 'Phedippides' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Helen Rawlings | Robert Browning | 'Evelyn Hope' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Allan Goadby | Robert Browning | 'Garden Fancies' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Allan Goadby | Robert Browning | 'Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Pattie Stansfield | Pattie Stansfield | [paper on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Pattie Stansfield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & passed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & agreed to' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Reynolds | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Alfred Rawlings | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Mr Stubington | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | T.T. Stubington | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Charles Stubington | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Allan Goadby | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Charles Stansfield | H.M. Wallis | [paper on Kipling] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read.' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Alfred Rawlings | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | 'A Poem' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Maria Neild | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | [from] Sylvie and Bruno | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Lilian Goadby | Lillian Goadby | [explanation of Jabberwock etymology] from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Elizabeth Edminson | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | 'Jabberwocky' [from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Charles Stansfield | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | [the Mock Turtle's Story from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Mrs Cass | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | [from] Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Allan Goadby | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | [the Mad Tea Party, from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You are quite right, according to me, in being dissatisfied with my work; but not right at all in expressing your dis... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Glasgow Brown | letter | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rondeau
On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles.
See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Auguste Maquet | Les Feuilles Vertes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or m... | Philip Larkin | Ben Jonson | extract | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read ... | Philip Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | Letters and diary | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books an... | Philip Larkin | D. H. Lawrence | Jimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As Lawrence (+ sign of cross - not christian cross - no devil down in Hell: [Christian cross] (!!)) said 'The reason ... | Philip Larkin | D. H. Lawrence | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is we... | Ottoline Morrell | David Herbert Lawrence | Kangaroo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During the daytime I could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the ... | Zoe Procter | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I heard about the great Abbot Sampson, of the twelfth century, whom I was to meet again at the age of fourteen, when ... | Zoe Procter | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year... | Zoe Procter | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year... | Zoe Procter | George Eliot | The Spanish Gipsy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty year... | Zoe Procter | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to m... | Zoe Procter | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1-7 January, 1797: '...the view is bounded by the accursed smoke of Londo... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | ‘Babylon and Sion’ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are n... | Robert Southey | William Lisle Bowles | Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are n... | Robert Southey | anon | Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are n... | Robert Southey | anon | Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el... | Zoe Procter | Aristotle | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el... | Zoe Procter | [unknown] | [nineteenth-century poets] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el... | Zoe Procter | Edward Bulwer Lytton | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I wish Bob would insert a review of my writing in th... | Robert Southey | William Gilbert | The Hurricane | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 29 January 1797: 'I have received Bedfords book this morning — he ha... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | The Loves of Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Although Mrs Craigie carried out her "duties" as a Roman Catholic, she took her religion lightly, and from her writin... | Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie | François Rabelais | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'When I was with George Dyer one morning last week Mary Hayes & Miss C... | Robert Southey | Mary Hays | articles in the Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'But Miss Christall. have you seen her Poems? — a fine, artless sens... | Robert Southey | Ann Batten Cristall | Poetical Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great... | Zoe Procter | George Meredith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great... | Zoe Procter | George Meredith | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is ... | Robert Southey | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'My mornings are devoted to Law; I allow the evening for pleasant... | Robert Southey | anon | German Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 16 March, 1797: 'We have been here now nearly a month. I read much Law — & find ti... | Robert Southey | anon | Law books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "... | Zoe Procter | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "... | Zoe Procter | [n/a] | Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "... | Zoe Procter | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "... | Zoe Procter | Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "... | Zoe Procter | [unknown] | Girls' Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Honoré de Balzac | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Stendhal | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Gustave Flaubert | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Anatole France | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded... | Zoe Procter | [Italian poets] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.' | Zoe Procter | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'Mr Estlin has sent me his sermon — a most superb copy — tho not I... | Robert Southey | John Prior Estlin | The Nature and Causes of Atheism, Pointed Out in a Discourse, Delivered at the Chapel in Lewin’s-Mead, Bristol. To Which Are Added, Remarks on a Work, Entitled Origine de Tous Les Cultes, ou Religion Universelle. Par Dupuis, Citoyen François | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'George Dyer gave me what he calls his “crotchet” & what I call an... | Robert Southey | George Dyer | The Poet’s Fate, a Poetical Dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 9 April, 1797: 'I have seen Bayntons Book. it is vilely written. but the theory seems... | Robert Southey | Thomas Baynton | Descriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Old Ulcers of the Legs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Not knowing that I had reached the end of my travels for that day, I seated myself on the one chair and proceeded to ... | Zoe Procter | [n/a] | Church Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 26 April, 1797: 'Some Mr T Park sent me a volume of his poems last week, with a note... | Robert Southey | Thomas Park | Sonnets, and Other Small Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 28 April, 1797: 'Have you ever met with Mary Wollstonecrafts letters from Sweden & N... | Robert Southey | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 2 May, 1797: 'I have a treasure in store for you. a little treatise in old English, v... | Robert Southey | John Henderson | Treatise upon Miracles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 May, 1797: 'This New Forest is very lovely. I should like to have a ho... | Robert Southey | John Gisborne | The Vales of Wever, a Loco-Descriptive Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want whe... | Robert Southey | Robert Robinson | Ecclesiastical Researches | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want whe... | Robert Southey | George Dyer | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Robert Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, c. 25 June, 1797: '“The Rhedycenian Barbers” is Grosvenor Bedfords — & a most ... | Robert Southey | Grosvenor Charles Bedford | The Rhedycenian Barbers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | Paul Jérémie Bitaubè | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | Ossian [James Macpherson] | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: 'Have you seen Madame Rolands Appel a l’impartiale Posteritè? it is one ... | Robert Southey | Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere | Appel a l’Impartiale Posteritè | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'I thank you for Chapelain. I read his poem with the hope of finding someth... | Robert Southey | Jean Chapelain | La Pucelle ou la France Délivrée | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'Cottle brought with him the new edition of Coleridges poems, they are dedi... | Robert Southey | S.T. Coleridge | Poems, by S. T. Coleridge, Second Edition. To Which are Now Added Poems by Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'The old Lady Strathmore has some curious books. I hope ... | Robert Southey | Bernando Tasso | Amadis of Gaul | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'If you can get me any poetical information about the Ri... | Robert Southey | Isabel Godin des Odonais | Lettre Contenant la Relation des Madame Godin (par le Fleuve des Amazons) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 28 July 1797: 'Since you left me I have been reading the Saint Louis of Le Moyne: an ... | Robert Southey | Pierre Le Moyne | Saint Louis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 3 August 1797: 'I think you would derive more good from Epictetus than... | Robert Southey | Epictetus | Encheiridion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have only seen the former parts of the Pursuits of L... | Robert Southey | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature, or What You Will. A Satirical Poem in Dialogue. With Notes. Part the Second | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have now gone thro Blackstone often & attentively, s... | Robert Southey | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have got learnt much military knowledge from a histo... | Robert Southey | Joshua Barnes | The History of That Most Victorious Monarch Edward III | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 15 August 1797: 'I am fond of great part of the Stoical system, & there are few characters... | Robert Southey | Epictetus | Encheiridion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 August 1797: 'Our Edwards were tolerable considering the day they l... | Robert Southey | Edmund Howes | The Annales, or Generalle Chronicle of England, Begun First by Maister John Stow, and After Him Continued and Augmented with Matters Forreine and Domesticall unto the End of Yeare 1610, by E. H. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 24 August 1797: 'Have you seen a poem addressed to me by Miss Anna Seward? if not I can mu... | Robert Southey | Anna Seward | 'Written by Anna Seward, After Reading Southey’s Joan of Arc’ | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 August 1797: '...tis in the translation of the huge romance Cleopa... | Robert Southey | Robert Loveday | Cléopâtre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'Nothing disgusts me so much as the affectation of... | Robert Southey | William Godwin | The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I doubted not that you would agree with me in thi... | Robert Southey | Francis Quarles | Argalus and Parthenia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 September 1797: 'I much want the latter books of Amadis, subsequen... | Robert Southey | anon | Palmerin of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I have been reading old Froissart. after Sir Walt... | Robert Southey | Jean Froissart | Le Premier (-Quart) Volume De Messire Jehan Froissart Lequel Traicte de Choses Vingts de Memoire Advenues Tant es Pays de France, Angleterre, Flandres, Espaigne que Escoce, ets Aus Tres Lieux Circonvoisins | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Do you know Rousseaus Levite of Ephraim? if not ... | Robert Southey | Jean Jacques Rousseau | La Lévite d’Ephraim | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I see Roughs Lorenzino reviewed. I had not expect... | Robert Southey | anon | Review of William Rough, Lorenzini di Medici | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Mrs Barbauld has written some lines to Coleridge ... | Robert Southey | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ‘To S. T. Coleridge, 1797’ | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'Coleridge has written a tragedy — by request ... | Robert Southey | S.T. Coleridge | Osorio | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: '...but there is a man, whose name is not known in... | Robert Southey | William Wordsworth | The Borderers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 30 September 1797: '... this took a strange turn when I was about nine y... | Robert Southey | William Shakespeare | [history plays, particularly Henry VI, Parts I and II] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A fine book dearest boy ! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new v... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 6 October 1797: 'Coleridge has so far compleated his tragedy that he has only the task of... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | S.T. Coleridge | Osorio | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing. | Arnold Bennett | André Maurois | Ariel: ou la vie de Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. bu... | Robert Southey | Jean de Serres | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. bu... | Robert Southey | Gregory Lewis Way | Fabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries by M. Le Grand, Selected and Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri... | Arnold Bennett | | La Nouvelle Revue Francaise | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but not... | Robert Southey | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but not... | Robert Southey | Gines Perez de Hita | Guerras Civiles de Granada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a st... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'I saw Bullers death in the news-paper. — it surprized me. we are accu... | Robert Southey | | account of death of William Buller | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Jouhandeau | Clodomir l'assassin | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'We have had a dreadful suicide here. the whole is in the Monthly Magazi... | Robert Southey | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 11 November 1797: 'Amos Cottles translation of the Edda is published, & I have brou... | Robert Southey | Amos Simon Cottle | Icelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'You will be surprized perhaps at hearing that Cowp... | Robert Southey | William Cowper | poem [unidentified] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'I know that our tastes differ much in poetry. & ye... | Robert Southey | Charles Lamb | 'Written Soon after the Preceding Poem’ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed editi... | Arnold Bennett | Mark Rutherford | The Novels of Mark Rutherford | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return ... | Robert Southey | Johannes Ravisius Textor | De Memorabilibus et Claris Mulieribus: Aliquot Diversorum Scriptorum Opera | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My objection to the policy of the 'Express' of late is that I can’t understand it—nor have I met anyone else who ... | Arnold Bennett | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return... | Robert Southey | Jean Masson | Histoire Memorable de la Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, Appelée la Pucelle d’Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return... | Robert Southey | Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo | De Claris Mulieribus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee... | Arnold Bennett | Havelock Ellis | The Dance of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.' | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Young Felix | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore as the publications of Kirkton etc. bear witness.' | Walter Scott | James Kirkton | Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 1678 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed by the Club.' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Helen Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Pattie Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | T.T. Cass | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Mrs Cass | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything d... | Thomas Kitching | Wilhelm Stekel | Peculiarities of Behaviour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the "Syonan Times" it says: "The era of equality for all in Greater Asia is at hand"' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | I am reading "Puppets into Scotland" by W. Wilkinson - it makes one very homesick' | Thomas Kitching | Walter Wilkinson | Puppets into Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish the "Puppets" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the wo... | Thomas Kitching | Walter Wilkinson | Puppets into Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'. | Walter Scott | Allan Ramsay | Tea-Table Miscellany: My Jo Janet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott quotes two lines from 'The Vocal Miscellany': 'Come, come my Hearts of Gold' (163) and ' Every man take a... | Walter Scott | | The Vocal Miscellany | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'. | Walter Scott | Henry Fielding | Tom Thumb the Great | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (January 1819):
'Rose at 9 [...] Mr. Bury brought me ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'on the depreciation of our paper currency' | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japan... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | Prison Regulations | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says Java surrendered unconditionally on Monday [9 Mar]' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" also gives a list of Nipponese taking positions as Advisers in various States of Malaya except Pah... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"' | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | [sign] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1900-1945 | 'A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by "The Changi Guardian" (the prisoners'... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | The Changi Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" reports there is no resistance in Northern Sumatra. In the newspaper, there is a remarkable simila... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" reports that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the prisoners in Hong Kong and of their "w... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says that 11 ships have been sunk off Colombo, Rangoon and the Indian coast; also the Queen Mary w... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the G... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | [marginalia in Dandelion Days] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times announces with a flourish the resumption of the delivery of letters.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" announces the resumption of the retail sale of sugar. And they are to re-open the schools soon' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" reports that 200 mixed British and Dutch refugees have been rounded up in Northern Sumatra. They h... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says the Nipponese have given Hong Kong internees money and cigarettes and they allow canteens whe... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Ru... | prisoners of war | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Ru... | prisoners of war | Rupert Brooke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Ru... | prisoners of war | Rudyard Kipling | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Ru... | prisoners of war | Noel Coward | Cavalcade | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says the scorched earth policy in Malaya was a failure - the rubber and tin are still there!' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says the lack of food grown in Malaya is due to the deliberate policy of the British government, w... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet -... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | The Changi Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Lights Out, Bayley reads a poem - anonymous. "J'y suis, j'y reste" about the war in Malaya. It is good and comp... | Thomas Kitching | anon. | J'y suis, J'y reste | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to "The Syonan Times", 10,000 prisoners are working on it [war memorial]. A "Lisbon cable" published in the... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" has a headline: "European War Decided in Two Months", but I cannot get near enough to see which wa... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I take the chance of a leisurely read of "The Syonan Times" of May 18th. The headlines include: "Decline of the Briti... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I inspect "The Syonan Times" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the O... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | Oxford Advanced Atlas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There we... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "North to the Orient" by Anne Lindbergh. I imagined they had flown over the top of the world! But actually it ... | Thomas Kitching | Anne Lindbergh | North to the Orient | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times reports that Mrs Arbenz, wife of the Swiss Consul, has been killed in a motor accident. Joan knew t... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A notice in "The Syonan Times" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" gives full details for an exchange of diplomats and others from the US, Canada and South America a... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportabl... | Thomas Kitching | Axel Munthe | San Michele | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of th... | Thomas Kitching | Malcolm Campbell | My Greatest Adventure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In "Guns and Butter" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: "To anyone who knows the East, it was already... | Thomas Kitching | R.H. Bruce-Lockhart | Guns and Butter | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | The Changi Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.' | Thomas Kitching | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" of August 7th says: "Grow more food. It is essential. It is to be planted on enemy-owned rubber pl... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish "Accident" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.' | Thomas Kitching | Arnold Bennett | Accident | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do t... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | [notice] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for reader... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | [notice] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says that, in spite of the "evil scorched-earth policy" of the British, the hydro-electric install... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A comparison with other internees culled from "The Syonan Times": Manila, S. Thomas University - 3,200 internees in 6... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring ene... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | The Changi Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" informs us that one Nipponese is worth at least six white soldiers because he fights for ideals an... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to "The Syonan Times", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya pr... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | [in this entry, lists extracts from "The Syonan Times" of 10 Sept] | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" refers to the "miserable hordes of distressed humanity who were barely able to eke out an existenc... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is unconscious humour in "The Syonan Times". Two headlines state: "New Order Simplifies Chinese Funerals" and "... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" has the speech of welcome given by the Mayor to Nipponese internees who have arrived on the Tatuta... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says the evil influences of the British education system are to be swept away completely and repla... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" of September 17th contains an account by a Chinese nurse who, I think, must have been on Nora's ship' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" is running heavy propaganda for the people to learn Japanese. They say people evidently don't like... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" says the Tatuta Maru brought parcels for the prisoners of war "direct from their kith and kin"' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150' | Thomas Kitching | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" reports that "owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Malayan-Chinese Goodwill Mission's visit to ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is not so much bombast in the latest "Syonan Times" report on the war: "Our nation remains determined ... to ac... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | [Tom quotes the "Syonan Times" on] '"British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees" and on how the local people "fail to... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" carries a report about Miss Estrop, a Eurasian from Kuala Lumpar.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Dated Garrow, 1823, is transcribed the traditional Scottish ... | | anon [Trad.] | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as ... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" leader says: "today, hundreds of thousands of people in Malaya are suffering severely from insuffi... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In "The Syonan Times" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian In... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" has more about the wonderful conditions of prisoners-of-war and internees in Hong Kong and Shanghi... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin, Shew... | | William Cowper | John Gilpin | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" reports that a week's holiday starts in Japan and elsewhere on December 5th at the end of a year's... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" has an amusing erros in its leader today.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have Brian's letter. The opening words are: "Dear Mum and Dad, I hope you are all right". This fills me with gloom.... | Thomas Kitching | Brian Kitching | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is an article in "The Syonan Times" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Signs of Pain: An excuse for not accepting... | | Edward Jenner | Signs of Rain | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see Seabridge's letter from South Africa; it is very interesting. There are details about many people who escaped a... | Thomas Kitching | Seabridge | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Anacreontic Lay', beginning 'Sing! - who s... | | Barry Cornwall | Anacreontic Lay | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" gives it away: "The English who formerly lived like kings are now sighing in Changi Prison".' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of the traditional story of the 'Sportsman and... | | Traditional | The Sportsman and the Countryman | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'A Conservative Song, to the tune of "There... | | Anon. Traditional | A Conservative Song | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned ins... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | The Changi Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Lines written on the Author's being asked ... | | St. George Tucker [attrib.] | Days of my Youth | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Jap Times and Advertiser" held a slogan competition.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Jap Times and Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paragraph has been cut out of "The Syonan Times"; internees are not allowed to see it, but, with the usual efficien... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | wrapper | Print: wrapper/ packaging |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines beginning 'Oh, could we read on every... | | | 'Oh could we read on every brow' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" is again full of articles putting the blame for the war on the Allies' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Times" advertises a movie in the Capitol, now disguised as Kyo-El-Gekizyo: "Love Finds Andy Hardy".' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'To quote "The Syonan Times", "All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag".' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines from 'On a Laurel, cut down by a ... | | Merivale | On a Laurel, cut down by a Hatchet | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of "Syonan Si... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Helen Ball's letter from South Africa to James is like a breath of fresh spring air in this lousy gaol' [describes le... | Thomas Kitching | Helen Ball | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of advice from the 'Maga. of Health, 1836', be... | | | Magazine of Health | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely ficti... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" headline on December 18th: "Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves". The newspaper lauds the superiority o... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'March to Moscow, Southey', beginning, 'Buo... | | Robert Southey | March to Moscow | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for convers... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading the 1942 diary of R.J.H.S. (another internee). It is an intensely personal document totally unlike m... | Thomas Kitching | R.J.H.S. | Diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but a... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: "Slogans should cle... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explan... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three... | Thomas Kitching | E. C. Bentley | Trent's Last Case | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that there are 18 large mailbags in Tokyo with letters from Great Britain for war priso... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" reports Tokyo as saying that "the maltreatment and petty annoyances to which Nipponese internees ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines 'Do not slay him who deserves alo... | | Creech | 'Do not slay him...' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, has been promoted to General.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" for Tuesday and Wednesday surpasses itself.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines 'In East Barnet Churchyard': 'Couldst... | | | Lines written in East Barnet Churchyard | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" leader is quite amusing; it tells the people how changed things are for them compared with a year... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the Nipponese Government has decided not to consider Indians and the other peoples o... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have... | Thomas Kitching | Isabel Constance Clarke | Haworth Parsonage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Eliza... | | anon [Traditional] | The Old and Young Courtier | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is St Patrick's Day - there is a reading of "The White Headed Boy" by an Irish author with an Irish cast.' | Thomas Kitching | Lennox Robinson | The White Headed Boy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Ballad "The old English Gentleman" sung by... | | anon [Traditional] | The Old English Gentleman | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Extract from the Life of John Evelyn Esq p... | | William Bray (ed.) | Life of John Evelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 2 Kings, 1:18-19, prefaced by 'Naaman to th... | | | 2 Kings 5: 18-19 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Gilly's Waldensian Researches'. Transcription of sever... | | William Stephen Gilly | Waldensian Researches, during a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'The intrepidity of a just and good man nobly set forth by H... | | Horace | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Translation of Madame la Countess de Genlis invocation at t... | | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Memoirs of the Countess of Genlis, Written by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of '"Crabbe's Paris Register" - Burials', begi... | | George Crabbe | Parish Register | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of information about the Burmese, 'Vid. 2 Year... | | Thomas Abercromby Trant | Two Years in Ava, from May 1824-May 1826 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines by '"Maria Blanche - eldest daughter ... | | Marie Blanche de Grignan | unidentified | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de Sévign... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'on the depreciation of our paper currency' | |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | David Ricardo | 'reply to Mr Bosanquet' | |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | Xenophon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ... | George Grote | Aristotle | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ... | George Grote | Galton | Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | De l'Homme et de ses Rapports | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'[after 11pm] Read Hemsterhuis for an hour --... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | (possibly) De l'Homme et de ses Rapports | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read... | George Grote | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read... | George Grote | Schiller | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read... | George Grote | Imanuel Kant | 'Anthropology' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Giovanni Pontano | Pontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' xx | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | Sur la divinite | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems... | George Grote | | article on 'Mill's British India' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819:
'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819:
'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's statement in trial for murder:
Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a... | Daniel Johncock | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 12 March 1819:
'Read some of Franklin's Life ... | George Grote | | 'Franklin's Life' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admir... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | David Hume | Essay on the Academical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Michael Benson: 'I called for a glass of ale, and paid for it; I was there a... | Michael Benson | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Snowdon': '"...and so he went on expatiati... | | Theodore Hook | Love and Pride | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A... | Ellen Martin | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Monday 22 March 1819:
'Rose at 6 [...] Read some of ... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the Frenc... | John Scott | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Wednesday 24 March 1819:
'Rose soon after 6. Read Ka... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819:
'Between 4 and 5 I read some... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | Prolegomena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Eldon's speech against the appeal of the T... | | Lord Eldon | Speech against the appeal of the Test and Corporation Act | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Patterson: 'Q. What were you doing there? A. I was reading the newspaper' | George Patterson | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819:
'Between 4 and 5 I read some... | George Grote and Charles Cameron | Jeremy Bentham | 'upon Legislation' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a paragraph from 'T. Hooke, Jack Bragg', beginni... | | Theodore Hooke | Jack Bragg | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819:
'Rose at 6. Read and meditated... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819:
'Rose at 6. Read and meditated... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for wounding:
George Rogers: 'it was quite by accident I saw this affair in the newspaper... | George Rogers | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of... | | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 27 March 1819:
'George Norman appeared [...... | George Grote | David Ricardo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matter—I sa... | Henry Theodore James | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. "The late Rudo... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Bell's Weekly Messenger (obituaries) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being a... | George Grote | Pausanias | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Sweet: 'On the 15th Dec. I saw an advertisement in the Times Newspaper ... | George Sweet | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being a... | George Grote | Goguet | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '"Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem" St Luke 23 Chap... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Gospel of St Luke, 23: 20-30 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ... | George Grote | Goguet | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ... | George Grote | Voltaire | Dictionnaire [?philosophique] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called no... | C.M.G. [anon] | George Crabbe | The Mother's Funeral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Charles Evans: 'I was in the room when the Coroner summed up the case to the J... | Charles Evans | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;... | George Grote | Goguet | Dissertation on Sanchoniathon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;... | George Grote | Goguet | Dissertation on the Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822:
'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Childs: 'Turner sat down, and fell asleep—Grimes sat near him, and seem... | Thomas Collins | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??illegible] and portraits as an intr... | Maria Neild | William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822:
'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Frederick Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822:
'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc... | George Grote | Voltaire | Dictionnaire [?philosophique] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed two pages starting '"Aug 3rd 1664. During the Pl... | C.M.G. [anon] | | The Life of Thomas Sydenham M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Shakespeare] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int... | Charles Stansfield | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 7 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Read Wolf. My opinion of him not lessened; from some pass... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton Aug... | C.M.G. [anon] | William Bray | Life of John Evelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for treason:
George Davis: 'Q. How came you to alter your mind? A. Through reading the new... | George Davis | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'. | C.M.G. [anon] | Anna Brownell Jameson | Diary of an Ennuyee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon... | George Grote | Wolf | Proleg[omena] 'in Homer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon... | George Grote | 'Diod.' Siculus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon... | George Grote | 'Diod.' Siculus | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life' | Elizabeth Edminson | Elizabeth Edminson | [Paper on Lecky's 'Map of Life'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
William James Bedel: 'On Monday, 6th Nov. last, I saw this advertisement in... | William James Bedel | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life' | Elizabeth Edminson | William Edward Hartpole Lecky | Map of Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g... | George Grote | 'Diod.' Siculus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822:
'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g... | George Grote | Voltaire | 'Miracles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (m... | C.M.G. [anon] | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia: Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Goadby then sang a song which was followed by a paper by Mr Stansfield on "The Hasty"'. | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [Paper delivered to XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Dawson: 'Campbell was in my house on that Saturday, from three to four o... | Joseph Campbell | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'. | William Henry Smith | William Henry Smith | [Paper on Ruskin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen... | C.M.G. [anon] | James Hogg | Queen Hynde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
Thomas Holmman: 'I afterwards saw an account in the newspaper of the priso... | Thomas Holmman | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ... | Blanche Ridges | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By t... | C.M.G. [anon] | Rev. J.E. Hankinson | St Paul at Philippi | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [Paper on Ruskin's Economics] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the
favourite pursuits of George G... | George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others | James Mill | Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ... | Charles Stansfield | John Ruskin | Unto this Last | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he ... | C.M.G. [anon] | Hannah More | Essay on Saint Paul | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the
favourite pursuits of George G... | George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others | Hartley | 'on Man' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the
favourite pursuits of George G... | George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others | Dutrieux | 'Logic" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the
favourite pursuits of George G... | George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others | Whately | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Gordon Chitlock: 'both these bags were in the booking-office—the priso... | Samuel Game | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Approved remedies for Everyday Maladies. For a Fit of Passi... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Salisbury Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously att... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on Ruskin as art critic] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously att... | Alfred Rawlings | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | C. B. Fripp to George Grote, 26 December 1836:
'In the Spectator of this week (of which I am a regular reader), I a... | C. B. Fripp | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Notes are made on relationships in the Bible, e.g. two colum... | C.M.G. [anon] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously att... | XII Book Club | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Richard James: 'I put the key of the cupboard into my pocket, and went to the p... | Richard James | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[By 1837] American politics had for many years occupied Grote's attention, and engaged his
sympathy. He was a great... | George Grote | | The Federalist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'the minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no un... | C.M.G. [anon] | Richardson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, includi... | C.M.G. [anon] | Bishop Middleton | Maxims | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sir William Molesworth to Harriet Grote, September 1838, regarding his planned edition of the
works of Thomas Hobbes... | William Molesworth | Thomas Hobbes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Copied from the John Bull Newspaper, Novr 19 1837. Speech o... | C.M.G. [anon] | | John Bull Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"—I said I did not... | Richard John Moxey | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Lilian Goadby | Lilian Goadby | [account of life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Confidence and Distrust, 1840 Hare', begin... | | Hare | Confidence and Distrust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of whi... | George Grote | Comte | Traite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Given me by the Revd. G. Walker.' Follows transcription of ... | | Red. G. Walker | sermon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Miss Goadby | Miss Goadby | 'Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on William Morris and socialism] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of... | George Grote | Victor Cousin | Documens pour servir a l'Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Blanche Ridges | William Morris | [political works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Miss Goadby | William Morris | [poetry and prose] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Immanuel Kant | Kritik der reinen Vernunft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Plato | Timaeus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840:
'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K... | George Grote | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on "Tennyson and his Books"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840:
'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De l... | George Grote | B. de St Hilaire | De la logique d'Aristote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840:
'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De l... | George Grote | Aristotle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Florence Reynolds | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Elizabeth Edminson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | T.T. Cass | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Allan Goadby | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | John Ridges | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sir Galahad' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | John Ridges | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'St Agnes' Eve' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1841 Grote was called upon to add another duty to the already full catalogue, for his
friend Dr. Waddingto... | George Grote | George Waddington | The History of the Reformation | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the evening of our arrival at Verona, George said to me, "H, have you got an Italian
grammar with you?" -- "Yes.... | George Grote | | Italian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Lilian Goadby | Lillian Goadby | [paper on Burns's life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Burns as song writer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Burns's personality] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Within a day or two of our arrival in Rome (which was on the 7th December, 1841) Grote
engaged a master, in order t... | George Grote | | 'English comedies' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Pattie Stansfield | Robert Burns | 'To a Mouse' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Pattie Stansfield | Robert Burns | 'To a Mountain Daisy' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Helen Rawlings | Robert Burns | 'Cotter's Saturday Night' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Charles Stansfield | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | T.T. Cass | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Frederick J. Edminson | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Miss Pollard | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Miss Goadby | Miss Goadby | 'A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Miss Goadby | William Makepeace Thackeray | Some Roundabout Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.' | Walter Scott | Francis Jeffrey | Edinburgh Review: Combinations of Workmen | |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled] 'Recollections of Childhood' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled] 'Superstitions' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled] 'On the Origin of Mourning' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled] 'Procrastination' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled] 'An Alpine Climb' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled] 'Wanted a New Line of Temperance Work ' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting held at the Lawn on March 27th was devoted to the reading of five minute anonymous essays of which the fo... | XII Book Club | | [essay entitled ?] 'De Pueris ' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Goadby | Miss Goadby | [Paper on Charles Lamb] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [Paper on Charles Lamb] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Pollard | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Helen Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Goadby | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter was read from Mr Stubington expressing regret at withdrawing from the Club on account of leaving the town.' | Alfred Rawlings | Mr Stubington | [letter of resignation from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Blanche Ridges | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Charles Stansfield | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Elizabeth Edminson and Allan Goadby | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Lilian Goadby | Lilian Goadby | [paper on Jane Austen] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Lilian Goadby | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After reading the minutes the arrangements for the next meeting were made' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'various readings from George Eliot in character & otherwise were then given by members bringing a very pleasant meeti... | members of XII Book Club | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.' | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on Elizabeth von Arnim's 'Solitary Summer'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.' | Blanche Ridges | Elizabeth von Arnim | Solitary Summer, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Frederick Edminson | John Morley | Oliver Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Morley's life of Oliver Cromwell] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Roger Martin du Gard | Jean Barois | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Beadle | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished a... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Siren Land | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel [ "The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.' | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Holy Mountain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a... | Joseph Conrad | J. (James) G. Gibbons Huneker | Egoists: A Book of Supermen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | The Feud | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his Afrikander memories. I didn't quite tell him how good they are for... | Joseph Conrad | Reginald Perceval Gibbon | Afrikander Memories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lo... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: "Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiasti... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia a... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | postcard | Manuscript: postcard |
| 1900-1945 | 'Very neatly put is this from "The Syonan Sinbun": "With the return of warm weather, the submarine threat has become a... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is an appeal in "The Syonan Sinbun" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a letter from Joan, Barn Close, Milford, Godalming. It is dated 14.7.42 and addressed to both of us, of cour... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see a quotation in "Jesting Pilate" by M. Arlen who just passed through Japan. He says: "It is as though there was ... | Thomas Kitching | M Arlen | Jesting Pilate | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. W... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | Wonderful Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" says: 'What were considered ridiculous prices a few months after the fall of Singapore are as not... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A few letters are released today. I get my fifth and last - it is from Amy addressed to Nora at 24, Mount Rosie Road ... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a speech made by Colonel Okabo to a meeting of Mohammedan delegates. He tells them to war... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I receive another letter from Joan, dated June 30th. She had just started the massage course for which the fee was 14... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what... | Thomas Kitching | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I get my letter; it is from Pip [Tom's sister, Phyllis] and is dated June 21st, 1942. She says Colin looks absolutely... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Saturday newspaper has part of a column cut out. As there is no war news from Europe elsewhere, you can put omiss... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is... | Thomas Kitching | [unknown] | Walking in the Grampians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Both Tuesday and Wednesday editions of "The Syonan Sinbun" have bits cut out - one-and-a-half columns then one column.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.' | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: "Three of our planes committed jibaku" ie. deliberately dived ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'An article in "The Syonan Sinbun" headed "Red Cross Says Syonan Prisoners Well-Treated" reports that the Internationa... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that Nipponese is to be the future lingua franca of Malaya, but do not be perturbed - E... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"Nippon knows no class or racial distinctions which were so hateful under the British", says a leader in "The Syonan ... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun", under the heading "No Room for Criminals", reports on the new regime's effective campaign agains... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" says the Axis have won the first round in Sicily, but doesn't explain how they let the Allies get... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a spokesman of the Nipponese Army Board of Information as saying Britain has sent warship... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'My talk on "The Development of Malayan Surveys" is read by Sworder. It goes very well. Many people come and congratul... | | Thomas Kitching | The Development of Malayan Surveys | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" says a cable from Lisbon on July 22nd reported the arrival in London of 20,000 postcards and lett... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "The Escaping Club" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatm... | Thomas Kitching | A.J. Evans | The escaping club | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to th... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Pow-Wow | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Syonan Sinbun" says goods supplied by the Nipponese will be distributed today; the goods include crockery, glass... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Syonan Sinbun | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3r... | Thomas Kitching | [n/a] | Government Blue Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | unspecified poem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthu... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Faith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'AT LAST! A letter from Brenda [Tom's sister] dated July 27th, 1942, with some news of Nora: 'I expect Joan has told y... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a letter to both of us from Joan dated July 28th, 1942. She is enjoying her work "hugely".' | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I receive another letter from Joan, dated October 13th, 1942, and numbered two. She is full of enthusiasm for her wor... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I receive two letters from Brenda. One dated July 22nd, 1942, says she was just moving to London and was going to do ... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'An advertisement for the Japanese film of the fall of Singapore, "On to Singapore" announces "Syonan - City of Peace,... | Thomas Kitching | | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'I receive a letter from Brenda, dated September 18th, 1942. She writes: "We are hoping it won't be long now before we... | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Web... | prisoners of war | Mary Webb | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Web... | prisoners of war | D.H. Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Web... | prisoners of war | Adrian Bell | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A note from Nic says that, if I send a coconut weekly, she will send sago pudding - very nice of her.' | Thomas Kitching | | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get "The Silk... | Thomas Kitching | A Berkeley | The Silk Stocking Murders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Golden Horn" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these ... | Thomas Kitching | F Yeats Brown | Golden Horn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'All the letters have been distributed; they have been here only two months. I get my six, two-and-a-half from Joan, t... | Thomas Kitching | | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Peril at End House" by Agatha Christie; it is excellent.' | Thomas Kitching | Agatha Christie | Peril at End House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading "Forbidden Journey" written by Ella Maillart in 1936, I am interest in her remarks about our friend, the enem... | Thomas Kitching | Ella Maillart | Forbidden Journey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 April 1846:
'I cannot resist writing to express to you the satisfaction, as well as ... | G. C. Lewis | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846:
'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "Histor... | Henry Hallam | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846:
'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "Histor... | Henry Hallam | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Bishop of St David's to George Grote, 21 June 1847:
'My expectations, though they had been raised very high, we... | Bishop of St David's | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Bishop of St David's to George Grote, 21 June 1847:
'My expectations, though they had been raised very high, we... | Bishop of St David's | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 3 and 4) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 November 1847:
'I received yesterday the volume on "Swiss Politics" which you were s... | G. C. Lewis | George Grote | Letters from Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sarah Austin to Harriet Grote, wife to George Grote, 29 August 1847:
'His [Austin's husband John] great comfort, du... | John Austin | George Grote | A History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Stuart Mill to George Grote, January 1849:
'I have just finished reading the two volumes with the greatest ple... | John Stuart Mill | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 5 and 6) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 22 January 1849:
'I have recently read Lord Hervey's Memoirs, on the recommendation of... | George Grote | Lord Hervey | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 30 September 1852:
'Neither the work of Beaufort sur l'Histoire Romaine -- nor the wor... | George Grote | Abbe St Pierre | Annees Politiques | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...]
1853 [...] Grote wo... | George Grote | Stephens | 'Book of the Farm' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853:
'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have rea... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the
"Quarterly Review," upon Mr... | George Grote | William Smith | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857):
'I send you Thomas's book on the provincial administration of La B... | George Grote | | Life of Daunou | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857):
'I have looked at W. Humboldt's book: it is written in a very exce... | George Grote | W. Humboldt | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857:
'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries... | George Grote | G. C. Lewis | articles on ancient history | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857:
'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries... | George Grote | | Notes and Queries | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 21 October 1858
'The day before yesterday I got Donaldson's book, the completion of Mu... | George Grote | Donaldson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finish... | William Soutar | Aldington | [brochure on Lawrence] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finish... | William Soutar | [unknown] | Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.' | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr S- came in before 2.0 and gave me an interesting reading - here and there - from Dixon's "Hellas Revisited". Now a... | William Soutar | Dixon | Hellas Revisited | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C... | William Soutar | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin". Very fresh mind - he at once joins the company of those who... | William Soutar | Paul Gauguin | The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr M- along. I lay back and listened to all his plans for the regeneration of Scotland - including the one in which h... | William Soutar | M | [personal writings] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.' | William Soutar | [unknown] | [ballads] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have ... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Northern Muse", arranged by John Buchan. A fine anthology - yet one must admit that our greates... | William Soutar | John Buchan | The Northern Muse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share i... | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whe... | William Soutar | F Yeats-Brown | Bengal Lancer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob an... | Evelyn Soutar | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.' | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: e... | William Soutar | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ... | William Soutar | Edmund Blunden [ed] | An Anthology of War Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ... | William Soutar | Wilfred Owen | Strange Meeting | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ... | William Soutar | Siegfried Loraine Sassoon | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nietzsche is one of the very few philosophers who remain poets in the midst of their philosophising; perhaps he is th... | William Soutar | Friedrich Nietzsche | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When looking at Hacker's "Annunciation" I was especially attracted by the water-pot, and said as much in my letter to... | William Soutar | C.J. Jung | Psychology of the Unconscious | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overp... | William Soutar | [n/a] | Glasgow Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Poems 1909-1925" by T.S. Eliot. I have never had any inclination to read Eliot's book but a whim prompted me to... | William Soutar | T.S. Eliot | Poems 1909-1925 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.' | William Soutar | Karl Marx | Capital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" -... | William Soutar | [n/a] | New Britain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Has Eliot, for example, not returned from the "Waste Land" back to a more dogmatic climate - his latest book, "After ... | William Soutar | T.S. Eliot | After Strange Gods | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Copies of "The Solitary Way" came along: looks quite nice. Looking at this handful of lyrics of unequal quality, one ... | William Soutar | William Soutar | The Solitary Way | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.' | William Soutar | William Soutar | journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'Advance copy of "Brief Words" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting... | William Soutar | William Soutar | Brief Words | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessaril... | William Soutar | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Sunset Song | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intell... | William Soutar | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" mig... | William Soutar | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. On... | William Soutar | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | Grey Granite | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and rea... | Christopher Murray Grieve | Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] | Red Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I... | William Soutar | John Middleton Murray | Keats and Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been defi... | William Soutar | Alfred Edward Housman | More Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my di... | William Soutar | H. Thomas | As It Was | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature"... | William Soutar | T.F. Henderson | Scottish Vernacular Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature"... | William Soutar | Alexander Hume | The Day Estivall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there... | William Soutar | Rudolph Roeber | Anarcho-Syndicalism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | On my 21st Birthday | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni... | William Soutar | G.S. Fraser | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the S... | William Soutar | David Guest | Dialectical Materialism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the S... | William Soutar | T.S. Eliot | The Idea of Christian Society | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "The Scots Literary Tradition" by John Spiers - a capable little study within its limits, and comes ... | William Soutar | John Spiers | The Scots Literary Tradition | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are besides, Sir Adam Fergusson, Colin Mackenzie, James Hope, Dr. James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two ... | Walter Scott | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading A.C. Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy", which has lain unread for 20 years: a work of profound penet... | William Soutar | A.C. Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; a... | William Soutar | W.S. Graham | Cage Without Grievance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him
So wise and young they say never live long.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards t... | William Soutar | Henri-Frédéric Amiel | The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; ... | William Soutar | Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] | Scots Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there ... | William Soutar | [unknown] | Edward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish p... | William Soutar | George Burnett [ed] | Book of Scottish Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two year... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the mo... | William Soutar | Walter De La Mare | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If one may judge from the young men and women in their twenties who call here - one must accept that exceptionally fe... | | Joseph Conrad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud ... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After the first week or so I became tired of reading aloud to George [husband, suffering from disorders of eyes], so ... | Harriet Grote | Claude Bernard | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Just as this is written enter my Lord of St Albans and Lady Charlotte to beg I recommend a book of sermons to Mrs. Co... | Walter Scott | John Logan | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Early in December [1858] we removed, with our household, to "The Priory" at Reigate, belonging to Earl Somers [...] w... | George Grote | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Charles Austin to Harriet Grote (October 1861):
'The world is very full of noise just now. Here, howeve... | Charles Austin | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While we were [visiting] at Harpton Court, passing one forenoon in Mr. Grote [husband]'s dressing-room, I asked him (... | George Grote | Degerando | Histoire des systemes de philosophie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While we were [visiting] at Harpton Court, passing one forenoon in Mr. Grote [husband]'s dressing-room, I asked him (... | Harriet Grote | Degerando | Histoire des systemes de philosophie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862):
'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazin... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | articles 'upon the Principles of Utility' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 9 February 1862:
'I ought before this to have written to thank you for your book of An... | George Grote | G. C. Lewis | 'book of Ancient Astronomy' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862:
'I send you herewith a letter and pamphlet which was forwarded to me ... | George Grote | Irving | pamphlet on mythology and the human mind | |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862:
'I suppose you have read Colenso's book. It is certainly singular to ... | George Grote | Colenso | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 29 December 1862:
'Your Egyptological pamphlet is a very ingenious jeu d'esprit, and t... | George Grote | G. C. Lewis | 'Egyptological pamphlet' | |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe... | George Grote | Bain | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe... | George Grote | John Fiske | article on 'the Science of History' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe... | George Grote | | article on John Wilkes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Harriet Grote's diary (1868):
'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do... | George Grote | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Harriet Grote's diary (1868):
'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do... | George Grote | anon ('ancient writers') | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Harriet Grote's diary (1868):
'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do... | William Harris | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he... | Sir William Gomm | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1-5) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he... | Harriet Grote | Sir William Gomm | Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5) | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he... | George Grote | Sir William Gomm | Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5) | |
| 1850-1899 | 'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the r... | George Grote | | Le Siecle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the r... | George Grote | | Tribune | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, whic... | George Grote | | anti-Empire articles | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, whic... | Harriet Grote | | anti-Empire articles | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We proceeded to Chatsworth on the 13th of August [1870] -- that is to say, to the "Edensor Inn," hard by [...] Lady E... | George Grote | | 'treatises of medieval authors' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796):
'When we got home [from walking and visiting] I read and played ti... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796):
'As soon as breakfast was over I read and played on the harp'. | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796):
'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now rea... | Lady Georgina Cavendish | | 'the black penitent' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797):
'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] w... | Harriet Ponsonby | Voltaire | L'Enfant prodige | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797):
'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] w... | Harriet Ponsonby | | story | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1798):
'The dinner here consisted of Mr. Hare sitting al... | Mr Hare | | Gazette Extraordinary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 10 October 1801:
'We arrived here last night [...] This ... | Harriet Cavendish | | Gallery catalogue, Hardwick Hall | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802):
'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro P... | William Lamb | | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802):
'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro P... | William Lamb and Caroline Ponsonby | | 'tales of wonder' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 27 August 1802:
'Ramsgate does not abound with incide... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 23 September 1802:
'I am now going, my dearest G. (de... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | George Lamb | 'John O'Thanet' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (January 1803):
'I am now going for 2 or 3 hours to ex... | Selina Trimmer | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article i... | Thomas Carlyle | anon | Review of 'German Romance' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803):
'I have been crying my eyes out over "... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | 'le Nouveau pere de famille' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (February 1803):
'I have been crying my eyes out over "... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Germaine de Stael | Delphine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Hester Piozzi | biography of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]John... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Hester Piozzi | biography of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 13 November 1803:
'I have been reading M'Cormick's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | McCormick | Life of Burke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 16 November 1803:
'I have begun Belsham's History o... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Belsham | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Belsham | Life of Charles II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Belsham | Life of James II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 19 November 1803 ('Friday evening'):
'I just this mom... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 24 November 1803:
'I lament the reason I am going t... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Madame de Sevigne | Letters (vol. 5) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (September 1804):
'My sister and I finished ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804:
'We have finished Cowper a... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 15 October 1804:
'We have finished Cowper a... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and Lady Georgiana Morpeth | | 'Charles the Vth' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804):
'I have been reading a grea... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Metastasio | Isacco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 10 November 1805:
'Lady B[essborough]. [aunt] has jus... | William and Caroline Lamb | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 10 November 1805:
'Lady B[essborough]. [aunt] has jus... | Lord and Lady Aberdeen | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 November 1805:
'In the morning I read by myself fo... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1806):
'Mama is too good to me. She tells me she shal... | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Lady Harriet Cavendish | Paley | 'Theology' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806):
'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. H... | Devonshire family | Leigh Hunt et al | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, during stay with her Spencer relations (c.1807):
'We ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and family | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807:
'This morning I got up betwe... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 3 August 1807:
'I walked an hour and read ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Bossuet | [possibly] 'Sur l'histoire universelle' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807:
'George's reading goes on p... | George Howard | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807, on her nephew and nieces' prog... | Lady Harriet Cavendish and Caroline Howard | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 12 August 1807:
'I have been, since I last... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Bossuet | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 16 August 1807:
'I got up this morning at ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Bossuet | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807:
'I find Modern Europe real... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Russell | 'Modern Europe' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Eldest Son | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess ... | Joseph Conrad | Carl Murrell Marris | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just ban... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Holy Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clari... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Some Platitudes Concerning Drama | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.' | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", a... | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | St Augustine | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei [The City of God] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | Blaise Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | Blaise Pascal | Provincial Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Studies in the History of the Renaissance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | T Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | The Grammar of Ascent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | Apologia Pro Vita Sua | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | Two Essays on Miracles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | The Idea of a University | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | | Italian Grammar Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | | Italian Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.' | John Ruskin | James Galiffe | Italy and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in that country in 1816 and 1817 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | | [Anthology of all surviving Greek and Latin poetry and Drama] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Lidell and Scott | Greek Lexicon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp... | Oscar Wilde | Lewis and Short | Latin Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they... | John Ruskin | Captain Frederick Marryat | Diary in America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Salammbô | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | | New Testament in Greek | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of the Jews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo... | John Ruskin | Louis Agassiz | Recherches sur les poissons fossiles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Frederick William Farrar | Life and Works of St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo... | John Ruskin | Walter Scott | Kenilworth: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Complete Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Christopher Marlowe | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Carlyle | Life of Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | John Keats | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Edmund Spenser | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French rev... | John Ruskin | Sir Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Joseph Ernest Renan | Vie de Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Joseph Ernest Renan | The Apostles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Leopold von Ranke | History of the Popes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Henry Newman | Critical and Historical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Dickens | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.' | John Ruskin | Jacob Bryant | Treatise on the Authenticity of the Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; ... | John Ruskin | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deu... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Gaston de Latour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of Latin Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | William Wordsworth | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Matthew Arnold | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Dean Church | Dante and Other Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Percy | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Hallam | History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in... | John Ruskin | John Henry Newman | Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | John Dryden | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Robert Burns | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Alfred Tennyson | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Thomas Buckle | History of Civilisation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry' | John Ruskin | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Introduction to Dante | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | A.J. Butler | Companion to Dante | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Miscellaneous Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.' | John Ruskin | Jean-Baptiste Dumas | Essai de statique chimique des étres organisés | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsumm... | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful ... | John Ruskin | W. Orme | Life and Times of Richard Baxter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, e... | John Ruskin | W. Orme | Life and Times of Richard Baxter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin... | John Ruskin | Allan Cunningham | Life of Sir David Wilkie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin... | John Ruskin | Allan Cunningham | Lives of eminent British painters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour... | John Ruskin | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.' | John Ruskin | Sir Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses take... | Oscar Wilde | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [chemistry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.' | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Italian] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Pliny | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Alexis François Rio | De la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans sa matiere at dans ses formes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.' | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Italian] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.' | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some Greek' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Greek] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipat... | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille [ed.] | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len... | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille [ed.] | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Art Union | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.' | John Ruskin | Robert Southey | Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.' | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.' | John Ruskin | Richard Owen | Fossil Mammalia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some Sir Joshua" | John Ruskin | Sir Joshua Reynolds | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of "Clouds".' | John Ruskin | Aristophanes | Clouds, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Witness | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.' | John Ruskin | Aristophanes | Clouds, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.' | John Ruskin | Richard Hooker [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a little Sir Joshua' | John Ruskin | Sir Joshua Reynolds | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me thr... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tr... | John Ruskin | J.S. Davenport | Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church | Print: tract |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained ano... | Arnold Bennett | Hubert Griffith | Tunnel Trench | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Figures in Modern Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that sett... | John Ruskin | George [?] Berkeley | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember ou... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercur... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contr... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the mo... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wantin... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments... | Arnold Bennett | Margaret Kennedy | The Constant Nymph | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies,... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too imp... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp... | Arnold Bennett | L.G. Johnson | Arnold Bennett of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ... | John Ruskin | George Herbert | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ... | John Ruskin | Henry Vaughan | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painfu... | John Ruskin | George Smith | Hints for the times | |
| 1900-1945 | I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp... | Arnold Bennett | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton | Arnold Bennett | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after l... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Acts) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807:
'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harrie... | William Cavendish | | 'Hint to a Young Reviewer' | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 6 November 1807:
'Lady Elizabeth [Foster, Lady Harrie... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | 'Hint to a Young Reviewer' | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807:
'Miss Trimmer [former governess and... | Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet Cavendish | Forbes | Life of Beattie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 14 November 1807:
'Miss Trimmer [former governess and... | Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer and Lady Harriet Cavendish | Francis Garden | 'travelling Memorandums' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 November 1807:
'I attribute my cold to going to Je... | William Spencer | William Spencer | Latin epitaph on Mr Sargent | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 December 1807:
'I see in the papers today that Lor... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | | report of Lord Granville's embarkation | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 December 1807:
'Lady Elizabeth is reading Semple's... | Lady Elizabeth Foster | Semple | 'travels through Spain' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808:
'I am glad that I mention... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Thompson | The Castle of Indolence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808:
'I am glad that I mention... | Lady Stafford | James Thompson | The Castle of Indolence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her brother, the Marquis of Hartington (b. 1790), 1 February 1809:
'How surprized Barrow'... | William Spencer Cavendish and 'Sir William' | Barrow | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I staid in and read Byron' | John Ruskin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Revelations) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the A... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4:... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions abou... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II.... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, ... | John Ruskin | John Charles Ryle | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new c... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Genesis) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek ... | John Ruskin | William Bell Scott | [memoir David Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".' | John Ruskin | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson | Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.' | John Ruskin | St Bede | An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in margi... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Channing on Napoleon' | John Ruskin | W.E. Channing | Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.' | John Ruskin | Henriette Cabrieres | La dame aux cheveux gris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicat... | John Ruskin | Hans Christen Andersen | [tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as ... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Journal pour tous | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and pass... | John Ruskin | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.' | John Ruskin | George Sand | Le peche de M. Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Le peche de M. Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Francois le Champi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.' | John Ruskin | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".' | John Ruskin | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias" | John Ruskin | Alexandre ` Dumas | La Dame aux Camélias | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avan... | John Ruskin | Gaullieur | Histoire de Geneve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to end of p. 269.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to end of p. 270.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read only Geology' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur... | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read geology' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to children under tree.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guin... | Thomas Carlyle | Franz Horn | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with... | Mrs Graham | William Cobbett | Cottage Economy: A New Edition | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surpr... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas de Quincey | Review of 'State of German Literature' | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Anne Babi".' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Anne Babi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Anne Babi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Anne Babi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.' | John Ruskin | anon | Dorothea Trudel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.' | John Ruskin | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Bleak House" in evening' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.' | John Ruskin | Julia Cecilia Stretton | Lady of Glynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finished "Lady of Glynne".' | John Ruskin | Julia Cecilia Stretton | Lady of Glynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Chess and "Quentin Durward".' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Quentin Durward"' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Tour de Jacob | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 61st Psalm' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '37th Psalm in evening!' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jean Ingelow' | John Ruskin | Jean Ingelow | [poems?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.' | John Ruskin | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".' | John Ruskin | J.R. Seeley | Ecce Homo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".' | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Nouveaux Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [life of Lord Byron] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to the... | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judge... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barret Browning | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".' | John Ruskin | Topffer | Nouvelles Genevoises | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Mademoiselle de Merquem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".' | John Ruskin | Julia Cecilia Stretton | Lady of Glynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read of Empress Theodora' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read economy of 12th century' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel. | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel. | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa... | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened 3rd of Tobit' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Tobit) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I... | John Ruskin | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Fortnightly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (John) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".' | John Ruskin | Michael Angelo | Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".' | John Ruskin | Sir Arthur Helps | Conquerors of the New World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Luke) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Roman de la rose [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Rouen missal with advantage' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Friedrich".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Foster's essays.' | John Ruskin | John Foster | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Roman de la rose [?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be fou... | Arnold Bennett | Francis Hackett | That Nice Young Couple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excell... | Arnold Bennett | Edward Knoblock | stories [unidentified] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.’s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them. | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Christina Alberta's Father | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was... | Arnold Bennett | Max Beaverbrook | Politicians and the Press | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the ... | Arnold Bennett | | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in tech... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | Cat's Cradle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in tech... | Arnold Bennett | Stendhal | Promenades dans Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Allan Goadby | Thomas Hood | Faithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic Ballad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Allan Goadby | | Demon Sleep | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Elizabeth Edminson | Thomas Hood | Song of the Shirt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Helen Rawlings | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [Paper on Thomas Moore and Thomas Hood] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Miss Goadby | Miss Goadby | [Paper on 'Reminscences of Moore'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Miss Goadby | Thomas Moore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick Edminson | Thomas Moore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick Edminson | Thomas Hood | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans... | Charles Stansfield | Harold Fielding Hall | Soul of a People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on 'The Soul of a People'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans... | Blanche Ridges | Edwin Arnold | Light of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans... | Pattie Stansfield | | Dhammapada | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancred | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my read... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already o... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | [n/a] | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it ... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | D H Lawrence | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it ... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | Dorothy Wellesley | Hogarth Living Poets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and ... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | History | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father:
'"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire... | Ralph Milbanke | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father:
'"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire... | Ralph Milbanke | Thomas Otway | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father:
'"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admire... | Ralph Milbanke | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anne Isabella Milbanke | 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was tak... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Glad to get back to my Testament' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer ... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verse] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, much helped by my brown book' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ... | John Ruskin | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | American Notes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'. | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quit... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | Cat's Cradle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throu... | Arnold Bennett | Chester Francis Cobb | Mr Moffat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read i... | Arnold Bennett | William Gerhardi | The Polyglots | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read first vision of Ezekiel.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then read 64th Isaiah.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its v... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (John) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Kings) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wro... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Kings) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Jardin de Bérénice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Kings) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Louis Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Roger Martin du Gard | Jean Barois | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Amos) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Colette | Chéri | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read chapter of Heliodorus.' | John Ruskin | Heliodorus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Anna Dostoevsky | Dostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve... | Arnold Bennett | F.A. Hornibrook | The Culture of the Abdomen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve... | Arnold Bennett | | Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah Menus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | [ghost story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Silver Spoon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Moschele's life] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Gentleman from San Francisco | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Village | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Manuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Si... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 6... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Munera | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely impera... | Arnold Bennett | Adelaide Philpotts | Akhnaton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was' | John Ruskin | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it' | John Ruskin | Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Genesis) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of Ge... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Small Boy in the Sixties | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. ... | Arnold Bennett | Louis Golding | Day of Atonement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Benighted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Adam in Moonshine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'. | Elizabeth Edminson | Elizabeth Edminson | [paper on [?] J.S. Brown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'. | Elizabeth Edminson | Brown | [letters of [?] J.S. Brown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t... | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on Augustine Birrell's Essays] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t... | Blanche Ridges | Augustine Birrell | Essays About Men, Women And Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t... | Members of the XII Book Club | Augustine Birrell | Essays About Men, Women And Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the pro... | Members of the XII Book Club | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the pro... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [essay on Matthew Arnold] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the pro... | Frederick J. Edminson | Matthew Arnold | Literature and Dogma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters of resignation were read from Miss Goadby and from Mr and Mrs A.L. Goadby'. | Alfred Rawlings | Goadby | [letters of resignation from the Goadbys from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'A short programme of selections from American authors had been arranged but time only sufficed for the reading of The... | Elizabeth Edminson | John Greenleaf Whittier | Meeting, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon ... | Members of the XII Book club | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon ... | John Ridges | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon ... | Frederick J. Edminson | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The resignation of Mr & Mrs Cass was read' | Alfred Rawlings | Cass | [letters of resignation from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'. | M.A. Wallis | M.A. Wallis | [paper on Marcus Aurelius] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'. | M.A. Wallis | Marcus Aurelius | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Charles Stansfield | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Spenser] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Florence Reynolds | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Elizabeth Edminson | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on Emerson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Emerson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Alfred Rawlings | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Miss Pollard | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Edward Little | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Charles Stansfield | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyl... | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.' | John Ruskin | Allan Kardec [pseud.] | Experimental Spritism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Numbers) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Mark) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Mark) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finally concluding in reading a French novel' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [French novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of t... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Expectans expectavi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Mariegola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '19th Psalm." | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Matthew) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequen... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Daniel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Terribly difficult bit of Plato' | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Ariadne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, love... | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misle... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Romans) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.' | John Ruskin | George Sand | Marquise de Villemer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ezekiel 34th' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Genesis) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my fi... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Wa... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | [notes] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him' | John Ruskin | Horace | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.' | John Ruskin | Cardinal Wiseman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | Deucalion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Job) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.' | John Ruskin | Cuthbert Collingwood | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife aski... | John Ruskin | Machiavelli | Florence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hosea XII. 7-9' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.' | John Ruskin | anon | Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | World | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | Octave Feuillet | La Petite Comtesse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | G. Baker | [Gladstone] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".' | John Ruskin | Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.' | John Ruskin | Isaac Taylor | Natural History of Enthusiasm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sir T. More in evening' | John Ruskin | Sir Thomas More | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Roma Sotternea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".' | John Ruskin | anon | History of Fair Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible de... | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.' | John Ruskin | Froude | Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Aladdin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his hear... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Chronicles) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ... | John Ruskin | Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure | Voyage dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ... | John Ruskin | Andrea Alciati | Emblems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee' | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two gi... | John Ruskin | Blanche Roosevelt | Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Peter) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [French novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Abbot, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well ... | Oscar Wilde | Elzabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well o... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the ... | Oscar Wilde | John Keats | Sonnet in Blue | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magaz... | Speranza Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Magdalen Walks | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". ... | Oscar Wilde | J.W. Meinhold | Sidonia the Sorceress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Maturin | Melmoth the Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the refere... | Arnold Bennett | Chartres Biron | Pious Opinions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I ... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar W... | Oscar Wilde | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and gramm... | Oscar Wilde | | ['classics books'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote an... | Arnold Bennett | Chartres Biron | To the Pure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers... | Oscar Wilde | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly un... | Oscar Wilde | Benjamin Disraeli | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The Vatican Swindle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The School of Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a boy [Wilde] "cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe."' | Oscar Wilde | Heinrich Heine | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Honore de Balzac | Lost Illusions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Honore de Balzac | A Harlot High and Low | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri... | Oscar Wilde | Stendhal | Scarlet and Black | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t. | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | L'Ecole des Femmes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Livy | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On t... | Oscar Wilde | Euripides | The Bacchae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo... | Arnold Bennett | Richard Hughes | A High Wind in Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo... | Arnold Bennett | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Tr... | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Studies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wild... | Oscar Wilde | Aristotle | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually ... | Arnold Bennett | Hector Berlioz | Soirées de l'Orchestre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles ... | Oscar Wilde | John Pentland Mahaffy | Rambles and Studies | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ... | Oscar Wilde | Algernon Swinburne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am returning your Memoirs.
Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips h... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memoirs | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Dialogues of Plato" became one of Wilde's golden books. He marked and annotated most of the dialogues, and many ... | Oscar Wilde | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done. | Arnold Bennett | James Hanley | ?A Passion before Death | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened "Studies in the History of the Renaissance", a collecti... | Oscar Wilde | Walter Pater | Studies in the History of the Renaiisance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | The Piazza Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Pierre: or the Ambiguities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought th... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | | Sunday Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’... | Arnold Bennett | Bruce Lockhart | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Woman who Rode Away | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Illustrative readings from various [Russian] authors were given by members which elicited a considerable amount of di... | Members of the XII Book Club | | [books about Russia or by Russians] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.H. Bruce read an interesting paper on the history [of Switzerland] which was followed by soome supplementary remark... | W.H. Bruce | W.H. Bruce | [paper on Swiss history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on H. G. wells's 'Mankind in the Making'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on H. G. Wells's 'Mankind in the Making'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Charles Stansfield | H.G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Howard R Smith | H.G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Walter Rowntree | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Walter Rowntree | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Walter Rowntree | Walter Rowntree | [resume of Meredith's 'Diana of the Crossways'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith's works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | [two poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Members of the XII Book Club | George Meredith | [poetry and prose] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on Tolstoy's philosophy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | Alfred Rawlings | | [Life of Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | Edward Little | Edward Little | [paper on Tolstoy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | Howard Smith | Leo Tolstoy | Resurrection, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | John Ridges | Leo Tolstoy | [extract from an unknown work] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | Charles Stansfield | Leo Tolstoy | Ivan the Fool | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | Alfred Rawlings | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi... | Charles Stansfield | Geoffrey Chaucer | Rhyme of Sir Thopas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi... | Elizabeth Edminson | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prioress' Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deteriorati... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [Paper responding to Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deteriorati... | Members of the XII Book Club | | Departmental Committee Report on Physical Deterioration | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the previous minutes were read & confirmed' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read a letter from Miss Player regretting her inability to join the Club'. | Alfred Rawlings | Miss Player | [Letter declining to join XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Reynolds then read a paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' describing actual experiences of a friend'. | Florence Reynolds | Florence Reynolds | [paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' ] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read a paper on Napoleon & A. Rawlings one entitled an 'Argument for Peace'.' | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on Napoleon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read a paper on Napoleon & A. Rawlings one entitled an 'Argument for Peace'.' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper entitled 'An Argument for Peace'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a biography of Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Helen Rawlings | John Keats | 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Howard R. Smith | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Blanche Ridges | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Edminson | John Keats | [sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [paper on Keats's poetry] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Alfred Rawlings | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no i... | Walter Scott | John Murray | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain Boothby | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke and 'the family-solicitor's daughter' | Alfieri | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Robert Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Maria Edgeworth | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Inst... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuin... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejud... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Anne Isabella Milbanke to Lord Byron (1814):
'Your ode to Buonaparte was read in the company which I have just left... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | ode to Napoleon Bonaparte | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.' | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.' | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, a... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | John Dryden | Don Sebastian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'They [newly married Lord and Lady Byron] read books together, and discussed them; Scott's Lord of the Isles was sent ... | Lord and Lady Byron | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will b... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Erasmus Darwin | article 'on Diseased Volition' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou... | Lord and Lady Byron | Erasmus Darwin | article 'on Diseased Volition' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Cicero | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supp... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrot... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the way up I read Lady Chatterley's Lover, in the new full continental edition a friend got from Germany. I now re... | Walter D'Arcy Cresswell | David Herbert Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not h... | Thomas Moore | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord John Russell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord Holland | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord Rancliffe | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Ada Byron's] mother wrote [to Ada's tutor]: "There are no weeds in her mind; it has to be planted. Her greatest defe... | Ada Byron | Paisley | Geometry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'Fare thee well' (lyric verses) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'the Satire' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, ... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A second London season over, and [Lady Byron] and Ada made their factory-tour, the daughter [i.e. Ada] meanwhile stud... | Ada Byron | | 'astronomy' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic.
... | Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron | George MacDonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R Smith | [paper on the House of Lords] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion... | W. Binns | W Binns | [a paper on an unknown subject] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [a paper on Carlyle] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Walter Rowntree | Walter Rowntree | [resume of Sartor Resartus] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Pattie Stansfield | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Charles Stansfield | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no... | Walter Rowntree | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | Howard R Smith | Howard R Smith | [paper on life of RL Stevenson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on works of RL Stevenson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | Members of the XII Book Club | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | John Ridges | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | William Smith | [paper on Shelley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | Blanche Ridges | Dr Scott | [paper on Shelley] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | Members of the XII book Club | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | | W Binns | [paper on W.S. Landor] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | William [?] Harris | William [?] Harris | [paper on W.S. Landor] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | Elizabeth Edminson | Walter Savage Landor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | Members of the XII Book Club | Walter Savage Landor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A... | Joyce Heelas | George Eliot [pseud.] | Romola | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A... | Miss Angus [?] | George Eliot [pseud.] | Romola | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting of the Club & a large number of guests met at Manor House Earley [?] on the kind invitation of Mr & Mrs Hee... | members of XII Book Club and friends | W.S. Gilbert | Palace of Truth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Walter Rowntree | Walter Rowntree | [paper on 'Punch' artists] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Howard Smith | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Charles Stansfield | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Alfred Rawlings | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | J. Heelas | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Helen Rawlings | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810:
'I am in the middle of [Rouss... | Harriet Countess Granville | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811:
'Do you wish to see us tonigh... | Mr Canning | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811:
'Do you wish to see us tonigh... | Charles Ellis | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811:
'Do you wish to see us tonigh... | Lord Granville | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811:
'Do you wish to see us tonigh... | Lord Harrowby and Lord Morpeth | | 'folios' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (August 1812):
'La Princesse Wilhelmine is not as... | Harriet Countess Granville | Princess Wilhelmine | Memoirs (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth 9 November 1814:
'I have just been reading the de... | Harriet Countess Granville | | Parliamentary debate | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 June 1815:
'The French papers rouse even me f... | Harriet Countess Granville | | 'French papers' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Calais, 26 July 1815:
'I wish you could see... | Lord Granville | | Moniteur | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815:
'I know of no new books. I ha... | Harriet Countess Granville | Dupaty | Voyage en Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815:
'"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is... | Harriet Countess Granville | Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815:
'"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is... | Lord Lansdowne | Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1816):
'Lady Harrowby and Susan [Lady Harrowby's... | Lady Harrowby and daughter (?and 'Messrs. Standish and Montagu') | | 'two new reviews' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 13 January 1817:
'Yesterday evening we had no wh... | Duke of Devonshire and family | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818:
'Yesterday evening Granville [hu... | Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister) | Camoens | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818:
'Yesterday evening Granville [hu... | Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister) | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819:
'I think parts of "Don Juan" more ... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 August 1819:
'I admire F. Lamb perhaps more t... | F. Lamb | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820:
'I send you a list of new books.... | Harriet Countess Granville | Chalmers | sermon | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820:
'I send you a list of new books.... | Harriet Countess Granville | | 'Sketches of Life and Manners' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 August 1820:
'I have been doing my duty, read... | Harriet Countess Granville | | parliamentary debate | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 August 1820:
'I have been doing my duty, read... | Harriet Countess Granville | | parliamentary debate | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 2 September 1820:
'The Lords are all tired and s... | Lord Portsmouth | | 'the Red Book' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I begin to find like Joseph Surface that too good a character is inconvenient.' | Walter Scott | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff... | Walter Scott | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Critic | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him... | Walter Scott | Robert Southey | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel... | Margaret Carlyle | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel... | Margaret Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle | State of German Literature | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in th... | Thomas Carlyle | George Moir | Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I received the volume ["A Motley"] the day before yesterday and laid it aside till this afternoon.'
Hence follow one... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | A Motley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[ev... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | The Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited in evidence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I fe... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Woodd Nevinson | Sitting at a Play | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary a... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | The Brassbounder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have ... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Scar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Without any doubt Jean [Gachet de la Fournière] has talent.[...] I wrote my immediate impression right after reading... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Gachet de la Fournière | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.' | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | The Puffin (uncertain) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they... | Joseph Conrad | Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce') | African Sketches and Impressions | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.' | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | unidentified | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through h... | Joseph Conrad | E.F. Wedgwood | The Shadow of a Titan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] L... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send back "The Windlestraw" by return of post. In this sort of apologue you are simply incomparable.' Hence follow... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Windlestraw | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Yvette and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was g... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Hogarth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for th... | Joseph Conrad | Douglas Goldring | A Country Boy and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820:
'We are all at "The Abbot." I... | Harriet, Countess Granville and family and houseguests | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820:
'We are all at "The Abbot." I... | Harriet Countess Granville | Walter Scott | The Abbot (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820:
'We are all at "The Abbot." I... | Harriet Countess Granville | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 8 October 1820:
'To-day I perform alone upon a r... | Charles Greville | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (October 1821):
'"Paestum" was in the "Times" to-... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Howard | Paestum | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth 25 October 1821:
'We, including Mr. Canning, admi... | Harriet Countess Granville, Canning and others in Granville household at Wherstead, Suffolk | | lines to Lady Holland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I mentioned that Jack's letter had arrived. It was dated the day before new-years-day, and brought good tidings of t... | | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ... | Granville Leveson Gower | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Go... | Thomas Carlyle | David (dr) Brewster | Recommendation | Manuscript: Letter of recommendation |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sardanapalus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Bruton Street, 3 January 1824:
'We landed he... | Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harriet Leveson Gower) | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from St Omer, 27 February 1824:
'You have no idea... | Harriet Countess Granville | | 'little book upon prayer' | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied in MS. |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824:
'Here is again the... | Granville Leveson Gower | | French newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824):
'What a pretty book C... | Harriet Countess Granville | Basil Hall | Journal in South America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824):
'What a pretty book C... | Harriet Countess Granville | Basil Hall | Journal in South America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824):
'What a pretty book C... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Howard | verses | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824:
'It amused me to ope... | Harriet Countess Granville | Madame Campan | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825:
'I feel already the... | Harriet Countess Granville | Segur | Life of Buonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 1 August 1825:
'I have begun reading ... | Harriet Countess Granville | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister Georgiana, Lady Carlisle, 5 December 1825:
'We are much shocked to see in ... | Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harroet Leveson Gower) | | report of Duchess of Rutland's death | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came... | Joseph Conrad | (Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture | Peter's Mother | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'. | Henry Marriage Wallis | Samuel Dill | Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | John Ridges | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on the Sagas] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | Frederick Edminson | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | Elizabeth Edminson | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | Walter S. Rowntree | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The minutes of the previous meeting were read' | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Love of a Nation | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Tiger & the Lady, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Building | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Quaker Stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Henry Lawrence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Pleasure of Winter Bathing, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | On Washing Seldom & then not much | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Poetry | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ... | John Ridges | George Borrow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ... | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on Works of George Borrow] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ... | R. Heelas | R. Heelas | [paper on Life of George Borrow] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | George Borrow | Bible in Spain, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | Miss Marriage | George Borrow | Lavengro | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | E.P. Kaye | George Borrow | Lavengro | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | Walter Rowntree | George Borrow | Romany Rye, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | Howard Smith | George Borrow | Romany Rye, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Elizabeth Edminson | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'. | Sybil Heelas | | [folklore] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'. | Walter Rowntree | | [folklore] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'. | | W Binns | [paper on folklore] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [Lengthy, uncomplimentary quote from H. E. Bates on D. H. Lawrence] 'Perhaps you would like to know who is writing thi... | Philip Larkin | Herbert Ernest Bates | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on J.M. Barrie] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | Mrs Kaye | James Barrie | Window in Thrums, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | Miss Marriage | James Barrie | Window in Thrums, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | Walter Rowntree | James Barrie | Window in Thrums, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | | James Barrie | Window in Thrums, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | Florence Reynolds | James Barrie | Peter Pan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | John Ridges | James Barrie | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Hardy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | | W Binns | [paper on Thomas Hardy's Life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Florence Reynolds | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Sylvanus Reynolds | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Walter Rowntree | Walter Rowntree | [Paper on W.W. Jacobs] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Paper on William Pett Ridge] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Charles Stansfield | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Walter Rowntree | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Charles Evans | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Walter Rowntree | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Howard Smith | William Pett Ridge | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | H.M. Wallis and Charles Evans | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on parodies] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Miss Marriage | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Helen Rawlings | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Charles Evans | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord ... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'. | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'To My Daughter' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry):
'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...]... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | memoranda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Epitaph In the Church Yard of Brading, in the Is... | Catherine Austen | | Epitaph | Print: tombstone |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant
meeting of from 20 to 25. It... | Henry Mackenzie | Henry Mackenzie | 'Essay on Dreams' (extract) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Bright be the place of thy Soul” Lord Byron... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Bright be the place of thy soul' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 8 December 1825:
'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeed... | Walter Scott | William Knox | The Lonely Hearth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 8 December 1825:
'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeed... | Walter Scott | William Knox | 'Spiritual hymns' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 9 December 1825:
'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebr... | Walter Scott | Harriet Wilson | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"On happiness” [unattributed], beginning 'True... | Catherine Austen | I. S. | 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 23 December 1825:
'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very
... | Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto | Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 12 February 1826;
'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare
... | Walter Scott | William Davenant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 19 February 1826;
'Being troubled with thick-coming fancies and a slight palpitation of the heart I have be... | Walter Scott | G. Chastellain | Vie de Jacques de Lalaine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 23 February 1826:
'Read a little volume called the OMEN very well written, deep and powerfull language [.... | Walter Scott | John Galt | The Omen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 2 March 1826:
'Slept indifferently and dreamd of Napoleon's last moments and last illness of which I was ... | Walter Scott | Dr Arnott | An Account of the Last Illness, Decease, etc. of Napoleon Bonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 8 March 1826:
'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Me... | Walter Scott | M. De Pastoret | Le Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has writt... | Walter Scott | Captain George Longmore | Tales of Chivalry and Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer ... | Walter Scott | Henry Weber | Metrical Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer ... | Walter Scott | Ritson | Ancient English Metrical Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 14 March 1826:
'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over... | Walter Scott | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | O'Donnel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 14 March 1826:
'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over... | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 16 March 1826:
'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the wors... | Walter Scott | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 27 March 1826:
'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow
L... | anon | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 27 March 1826:
'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow
L... | anon | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 28 March 1826:
'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which a... | Walter Scott | T. H. Lister | Granby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 5 April 1826:
'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less
... | Walter Scott | Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor Oudney | Narrative of Travels in Northern and Central Africa in 1822, 1823, and 1834 [sic in source] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday 9 April 1826:
'Lockhart's Review -- Don't like his article on Sheridan's Life. There is no breadth in it, no... | Walter Scott | J. G. Lockhart | review of Thomas Moore, Life of Sheridan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 16 July 1826:
'Very unsatisfactory to-day. Sleepy, stupid, indolent -- finished arranging the books and aft... | Walter Scott | | 'The murder of [William] Weare by Thurtell and Co. at Gill's-Hill, in Hertfordshire' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me ab... | Walter Scott | Middleton | Michaelmas Term | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me ab... | Walter Scott | Wentworth Smith | The Hector of Germany, or The Palsgrave | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early
English Romances, and th... | Walter Scott | George Ellis | Specimens of the Early English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early
English Romances, and th... | Walter Scott | George Ellis | Specimens of Early English Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the
family circle.' | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the
family circle.' | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | Harrison Ainsworth | Sir John Chiverton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | John Smith | Brambletye House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper ... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [paper on Subliminal Consciousness] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper ... | Walter Rowntree | Walter Rowntree | [paper on Evidence of continued existence after corporeal death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Charles Stansfield | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Charles Evans | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Howard Smith | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | John James Cooper | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Alfred Rawlings | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Helen Rawlings | Philip H. Wicksteed | Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Helen Rawlings | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Margery Rawlings | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Alfred Rawlings | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Frederick Edminson | Henrik Ibsen | Doll's House, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Miss Marriage, Henry Marriage Wallis, Percy Kaye and Walter Rowntree | Henrik Ibsen | Pillars of Society, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Frederick Edminson | Henrik Ibsen | Doll's House, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' This is really great, great in every dimension. [...] I have read the book ["The New Machiavelli"] yesterday and thi... | Joseph Conrad | H. G. (Herbert George) Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine.Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll w... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted.... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Siren Land | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on th... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Patrician | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodiou... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | unidentified | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your pro... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Thomas | Light and Twilight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveab... | Joseph Conrad | W.H.(William Henry) Hudson | A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (probable) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.' | Joseph Conrad | unknown | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Walter Rowntree | Walter Rowntree | [paper on Dante & Florence] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Edminson | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Howard R. Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Alfred Rawlings | E.H. Plumptre | Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Mebers of XII Book Club | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Members of XII Book Club | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Dante's Purgatorio] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Frederick Edminson | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Miss Marriage | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginni... | Catherine Austen | Edward Young | The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If tha... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'If that high world' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Ode to the Poppy, By the Honble Mrs O’Neil', b... | Catherine Austen | Mrs O’Neil | Ode to the Poppy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', be... | Catherine Austen | James Thomson | Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the fla... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | To Mary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines entitled ‘Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks... | Catherine Austen | anon | Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of Lines by a Lady at a Ball', beginning 'So, Sir, y... | Catherine Austen | anon | Lines by a Lady at a Ball | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘An Epitaph. On the Tombstone erected over the... | Catherine Austen | G Canning | Epitaph On the Tombstone erected over the Marquis of Anglesey’s leg | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady’s common ... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Little | Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady's Common Place Book | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but b... | Catherine Austen | Robert Southey | The Well of St Keyne | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by M... | Catherine Austen | John Marriott | A Devonshire Lane | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from “Rokesby” (for Rokeby), begin... | Catherine Austen | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byr... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bridge of Abydos | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled an... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written b... | Catherine Austen | Mary Queen of Scots | Sonnet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On the death of a friend” T. Moore.' | Catherine Austen | T Moore | Lines on the death of a dear friend | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Friendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint th... | Catherine Austen | John Gay | The Hare and Many Friends | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Lord Buckingham was once at a dinner where a Mr Grub was reque... | Catherine Austen | | Hampshire Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To a Flirt" [unattributed, but the poem is "To ... | Catherine Austen | | Hampshire Advertiser | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston written by h... | Catherine Austen | Lord Palmerston | Epitaph on Vicountess Palmerston | Print: tombstone |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'. | Catherine Austen | anon | Black eyes and Blue eyes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?” by M. S'. | Catherine Austen | M S | What is Love? | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s... | Catherine Austen | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | L’Improvisatrice | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginnin... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | Sensibility | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Lines by the Princess Amelia” beginning 'Un... | Catherine Austen | Princess Amelia | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday”... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the G... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | The Downfall of the Gods | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'. | Catherine Austen | Sheridan | [verses to his wife] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray. | Catherine Austen | Rev. Francis Murray | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'lament of the Single Ladies of Southampton' 'fro... | Catherine Austen | | Southampton Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ”To the Butterfly” by Samuel Rogers. | Catherine Austen | Samuel Rogers | To the Butterfly | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq' | Catherine Austen | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Verses | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL. | Catherine Austen | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | On Sir Walter Scott | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “They may talk of scenes that are bright and fa... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Haynes Bailey | 'They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evide... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | unidentified | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“In Happiness Hours” By Thos Haynes Bailey Esq' | Catherine Austen | Thomas Haynes Bailey | 'In Happiness Hours' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | A Search after Happiness | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the d... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightnes... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Outcry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism. | Joseph Conrad | (Francis) Warrington Dawson | unspecified | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake.
I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Andre | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?' | Joseph Conrad | Henri Ghéon | Nos Directions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William... | Joseph Conrad | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley) | Seems So! A Working Class View of Politics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.'
Hence follows a page of praise... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Lords and Masters | Print: playscript |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 19 October 1826:
'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the P... | Walter Scott | Robert Southey | History of the Peninsular War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 4 January 1827:
'After tea I broke off work and read my young folks the farce of The Critic and "merry fo... | Walter Scott | R. B. Sheridan | The Critic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 6 January 1827:
'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir L... | Walter Scott | Foote | The Commissary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | | report of funeral of William Gifford | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | William Gifford | translation of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | William Gifford | The Baviad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | William Gifford | The Maeviad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 23 January 1827:
'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new nov... | Walter Scott | Christian Isobel Johnson | Elizabeth de Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 27 January 1827:
'Read Elizth. de Bruce -- it is very clever but does not show much originality: the char... | Walter Scott | Christian Isobel Johnson | Elizabeth de Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'.
Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henr... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Very many thanks for your kind and friendly notion of sending me "The Brothers Karamazov". I am quite simply astonsi... | Joseph Conrad | Jacques Copeau(and Jean Croue, after Fyodor Dostoievski | Les Frères Karamazov: une drame en 5 actes Dostoievski | Print: playscript |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 5 February 1827:
'Dined at the Royal Society club -- above 30 present. Went to the Society in the evening a... | Walter Scott | Peter Tytler | 'essay [...] on the first encourager of Greek learning in England' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.' | Walter Scott | | Bible: Ecclesiastes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 10 February 1827:
'I got a present of Lord Frederick Leveson Gower's printed but unpublishd "Tale of the ... | Walter Scott | Lord Frederick Leveson Gower | Tale of the Mill | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Thursday, 1 March 1827:
'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always... | Walter Scott | Horace Walpole | Historic Doubts on Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments... | Walter Scott | Samuel Foote | The Maid of Bath | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 10 March 1827:
'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintend... | Walter Scott | Sir James Melville | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | L'Immoraliste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 12 March 1827:
'I have been trying to read a new novel which I have heard praised. It is calld Almacks an[d... | Walter Scott | | Almacks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 22 April 1827:
'Wrought [i.e. worked] in the afternoon and tried to read De Vere, a sensible but heavy book... | Walter Scott | Robert Ward | De Vere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 13 May 1827:
'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes re... | Walter Scott | Captain Thomas Hamilton | The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 8 June 1827:
'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, ove... | Walter Scott | Sir James Melville | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 11 June 1827:
'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took u... | Walter Scott | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 28 June 1827:
'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napol... | anon | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 4 July 1827:
'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too l... | Walter Scott | Robert Ward | De Vere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 9 July 1827:
'At eleven [am] went by appointment with Colin Mackenzie to the New Edinr. Academy. In the fi... | Pupils in fifth class at New Edinburgh Academy | | Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 1 August 1827:
'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffma... | Walter Scott | Walter Scott | article on E. T. W. Hoffmann | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 3 August 1827:
'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without in... | Walter Scott | Pryce Gordon | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 14 September 1827:
'Read a Refutation as it calls itself of Napoleon's history. It is so very polite and ac... | Walter Scott | | 'Refutation' of Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 18 September 1827:
'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting... | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 27 September 1827:
'We dined at Gattonside with Mr. Bembridge who kindly presented me with 6 bottles of s... | Walter Scott | | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Kingsley | The Water Babies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ... | Hilary Spalding | Vicky Baum | Hotel Berlin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Palgrave (ed) | Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'He [her father] gave me a copy of Lou Wallis's Ben Hur in a slip case and I put in my diary ... | Hilary Spalding | Lou Wallis | Ben Hur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'The one [book] that I was given was Bernard Shaw. We went into a bookshop and my father said... | Hilary Spalding | George Bernard Shaw | Collected Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'The school library had a reasonably wide selection – we could take out one fiction and one... | Hilary Spalding | Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Georgette Heyer | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | D.K. Broster | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | A.J. Cronin | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Axel Munter | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Hugh Walpole | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Francis Brett Young | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Helen Waddell | Peter Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | Margaret Irwin | Still She Wished for Company | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | Harrison Ainsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small ... | Hilary Spalding | | [medical books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the f... | Hilary Spalding | John Galsworthy | Forsyte Saga | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the f... | Hilary Spalding | John Buchan | Hunting Tower | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'My father introduced me to the Forsyte Saga and I read all of that. Hunting Tower was the f... | Hilary Spalding | John Dickson Carr | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'She [mother] introduced me to Dornford Yates, and I devoured him when I was about 16.' | Hilary Spalding | Dornford Yates | various | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrat... | Hilary Spalding | | Picture Post | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrat... | Hilary Spalding | | Illustrated London News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrat... | Hilary Spalding | | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrat... | Hilary Spalding | | Women's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Theory of Language | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Further East | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'There’s a bit in my diary about Forever Amber which was notorious. My mother surprisingly ... | Hilary Spalding | Kathleen Windsor | Forever Amber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Perpetual Motion | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Court of Appeal, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Feat of Journalism, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'What we did have in the common room was the Daily Telegraph, which I never read, except the ... | Hilary Spalding | | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [members of the XII Book Club] | [two essays entitled 'A Vignette of Local History'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Alfred Rawlings | Goldwin Smith | William Lloyd Garrison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | John James Cooper | [Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [Essay on Goldwin Smith as historian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Frederick J. Edminson | Goldwin Smith | [historical works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | Goldwin Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Charles Stansfield | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Howard R. Smith | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Mary Hayward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on Henri Bergson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Henri Bergson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Bernard Shaw | Doctor's Dilemma, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Charles Evans | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [essay on Shaw's Life and Works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Frederick Edminson, Percy Kaye & Walter Rowntree | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Charles Stansfield | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some months since I joined with other literary folks in subscribing a petition for a pension to Mrs. G- of L-n which ... | Walter Scott | Anne Grant | Memoirs of a Highland Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 14 November 1827:
'Read the Gazette of the great battle of Navarrino in which we have thumped the Turks ... | Walter Scott | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 15 November 1827:
'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for ... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | History of the Rebellion 1745-6 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 14 January 1828:
'I read Cooper's new novel work, the Red Rover; the current of the [novel] rolls entirely ... | Walter Scott | Cooper | Red Rover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 28 January 1828:
'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got fo... | Walter Scott | James Fenimore Cooper | Prairie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday 21 February 1828:
'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings... | Walter Scott | Theodore Hook | Sayings and Doings (third series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 23 February 1828:
'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdot... | Walter Scott | Wilson | review of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 13 March 1828:
'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so ... | Walter Scott | Gerald Griffin | Tales of the Munster Festivals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 28 March 1828:
'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a r... | Walter Scott | James Thomson | Tales of an Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 8 April 1828:
'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy... | Walter and Anne Scott | Washington Irving | Sketch Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 26 May 1828:
'I walkd down to call with [Samuel] Rogers on Mrs. D'Arblay. She shewd me some notes which she... | Walter Scott | Frances Burney | notes 'about her novels' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 29 May 1828:
'I have amused myself to-day with reading Lockhart's Life of Burns which is very well writte... | Walter Scott | Lockhart | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 31 May 1828:
'I have finishd Napier's War in the Peninsula. It is written in the spirit of a Liberal but ... | Walter Scott | Colonel W. F. P. Napier | History of War in the Peninsula (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 1 June 1828:
'We reachd Carlisle at seven o' clock and were housed for the night. My books being exhausted ... | Walter Scott | | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c mu... | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 3 June 1828:
'I smoked a segar, slept away an hour and read Mure of Auchendrayne's trial and thus ended th... | Walter Scott | | Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 4 June 1828:
'Started [for Edinburgh] at half past four and arrived at home if we must call it so at nin... | Walter Scott | | Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 23 January 1829:
'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to... | Walter Scott | Bell | 'specimen of a historical novel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 31 January 1829:
'Lookd over Cumnor Hall by Mr. Usher Tighe of Oxford.' | Walter Scott | H. U. Tighe | Historical Account of Cumnor ... illustrative of the Romance of Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 10 February 1829:
'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian aft... | Walter Scott | The Revd. Dr. R. Henry | History of Great Britain; from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and ... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Carlyle | Package of Proofsheets | Manuscript: Proofsheets |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 15 February 1829:
'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to rea... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | Picture of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose... | Thomas Carlyle | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Message about Aunt's death | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Monday. 16 February 1829:
'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some ... | Sir William Hamilton | Sir William Hamilton | 'On the size of the brain and the proportion of its parts, as affected by age, sex, or sexual mutilation.' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 20 February 1829:
'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not s... | Walter Scott | The Revd. C. H. Hartshorne | Ancient Metrical Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 24 February 1829:
'Went to breakfast with Mr. Drummond Hay, where we [Scott and daughter Anne, with his ni... | Mrs Blair | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 28 February 1829:
'Read part of a curious work calld Memoirs of Vidocque, a fellow who was at the head of... | Walter Scott | | Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete jusqu'en 1827 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to ... | Walter Scott | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings... | Walter Scott | T.R. Malthus | Principle of Population | |
| 1850-1899 | 'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walter Villiers | Sir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Will. J. Sharman | article in Young Folks | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Bracebridge Hemyng | Bondage of Brandon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter to Colvin and have roared over it ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Oscar Wilde | letter to Sidney Colvin | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not e... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Oscar Wilde | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had already spotted your Dickens; very pleasant and true.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | review of Vol 3 Letters of Charles Dickens in Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Morris | translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Ernest E. Unwin | Henry Marriage Wallis | [prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Charles I. Evans | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Miss Marriage | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Ernest E. Unwin | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Alfred Rawlings | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Charles Evans | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Walter Rowntree | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Howard Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Margery Rawlings | Robert Browning | Evelyn Hope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the litera... | | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [notes on Christian Science] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the litera... | Alfred Rawlings | W Binns | [letter of resignation from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the litera... | Charles Stansfield | | [literature on Christian Science] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | John James Cooper | John James Cooper | [Paper on Robert Bridges] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Charles Evans | Charles Evans | [Paper on Henry Newbolt] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Paper on John Masefield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Ernest E. Unwin | John Masefield | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Charles Evans | Henry Newbolt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | John James Cooper | Robert Bridges | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Alfred Rawlings | Alice Meynell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Alfred Rawlings | C.H. Frogley | Voice from the trees, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Alfred Rawlings | Henry Charles Beeching | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Es... | Members of XII Book Club | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Es... | Members of XII Book Club | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Skylark, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Es... | Members of XII Book Club | Francis Thompson | Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of readings from Maeterlinck were given by various members' | Members of XII Book Club | Maurice, Count Maeterlinck | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Members of XII Book Club | John Millington Synge | Tinker's Wedding, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Members of XII Book Club | John Millington Synge | Playboy of the Western World, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Members of XII Book Club | William Butler Yeats | Countess Cathleen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Ernest E. Unwin | ernest E. Unwin | [paper on neo-Irish theatre] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Charles Evans | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Alfred Rawlings | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Helen Rawlings | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Janet Rawlings | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | "Giotto's Gospel of Labour" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | "The Grosvenor Gallery" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 1 March 1829:
'I labourd heard [i.e. 'hard'?] the whole day and between hands refreshd myself with Vidocque... | Walter Scott | Vidocque | Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete jusqu'en 1827 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 2 March 1829:
'Dined at the Royal Society Club and went to the Society in the evening. There was a paper re... | | Bauld | paper on mining-compass design | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 12 March 1829:
'I read Reginald Heber's journal after dinner. I spent some merry days with him at Oxford... | Walter Scott | Reginald Heber | Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 25 March 1829:
'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.' | Anne Scott | | 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpherson of Cluny]' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 5 April 1829:
'Read prayers to what remains of our [house] party, being Anne [daughter], my niece Anne, the... | Walter Scott | | Prayers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 9 April 1829:
'I got a book from the Duke de Leviz, the same gentleman with whom I had an awkward meeting... | Walter Scott | Duke de Leviz | The Carbonaro, A Piedmontese Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 18 April 1829:
'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropoli... | Anne Scott | | Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropolitan police force | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 26 April 1829:
'Looking for something I fell in with the Little drama long amissing calld the Doom of Devor... | Walter Scott | Walter Scott | The Doom of Devorgoil | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 28 May 1829:
'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for B... | MacIntosh Mackay | | The Book of Rights | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 10 June 1829:
'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, ... | Walter Scott | William Mudford | The Five Nights of St Albans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 12 June 1829:
'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my no... | Walter Scott | William Mudford | The Five Nights of St Albans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 15 June 1829:
'I read Genl. Miller's account of the South American War. I liked it the better that Basil Ha... | Walter Scott | General Miller | Memoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the Republic of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 19 July 1829:
'I read the Spae-wife of Galt. There is something good in it and the language is occasionally... | Walter Scott | John Galt | The Spaewife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Ursula Unwin | Ursula Unwin | [biography of Tolstoy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Charles Evans | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Reginald Robson | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | F. Ridges | Anatole France | [Careers for Women] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | V. Ridges | Anatole France | Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | Ernest E. Unwin | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | Charles Evans | Anatole France | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | Howard Smith | Anatole France | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | Howard Smith | Anatole France | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of the last two meetings were read'. | Ernest Unwin | Alfred Rawlings | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | John J. Cooper | [paper on Oliver Wendell Holmes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Latter Day Warnings' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Mary Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poet at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professor at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | K. Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Chambered Nautilus, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Holmes's 'the Professor at the Breakfast Table'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read'. | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the reading of a number of short stories which were more or less anonymous. Mo... | Members of XII Book Club | [members of XII Book Club] | [short stories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read' | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Walter S. Rowntree | Alfred Russel Wallace | My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Alfred Russel Wallace | [psychical writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Alfred Russel Wallace | [scientific writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Chaucer's Life and Times] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Charles Evans | Charles Evans | [paper on Chaucer's poetry] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Violet Wallis | Geoffrey Chaucer | Knight's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Helen Rawlings | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Alfred Rawlings | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Ernest E. Unwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Mary Robson | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Rosamund Wallis | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Charles Evans | Geoffrey Chaucer | [poetry, including the General Prologue] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Miss Marriage | John J. Cooper | [paper on Thackeray] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Charles Stansfield | William Makepeace Thackeray | Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Charles Evans | William Makepeace Thackeray | Newcomes, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Makepeace Thackeray | Roundabout Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Howard Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre... | Alfred, Helen and Janet Rawlings | Rabindranath Tagore | Chitra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre... | Katherine Evans | Rabindranath Tagore | Crescent Moon, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre... | Violet Wallis | Rabindranath Tagore | King of the Dark Chamber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre... | Charles E. Stansfield | Rabindranath Tagore | Gardener, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre... | Charles Evans | Rabindranath Tagore | Post Office | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 3 July 1830:
'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every... | Walter Scott | John Bunyan | John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the Author | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 3 July 1830:
'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every... | Walter Scott | William Hone | Every-Day Book and Table Book: or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 11 July 1830:
'I have begun Lawrie Todd which ought considering the author's indisputed talents to have bee... | Walter Scott | John Galt | Lawrie Todd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 26 December 1830:
'I shut myself up in Mr. [Henry] Scott's room. He has lately become purchaser of his Gran... | Walter Scott | | Civil war tracts | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 27 February 1831:
'Being Saturday no Mr. Laidlaw [amanuensis] came yesterday evening nor to-day being Sunda... | Walter Scott | | 'German novels' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 4 April 1831:
'Mr. Liddell and Hay Mackenzie left us this morning. Liddell shewd me yesterday a very good o... | Walter Scott | Liddell | The Savoyard | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 13 April 1831:
'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's ... | Walter Scott | Captain Basil Hall | Fragments of Voyages and Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he nev... | Walter Scott | E.T.A. Hoffman | The Devil's Elixirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 26 October 1831:
'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new... | Walter Scott | Smith | New Forest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 February 1828:
'I have not read the debates [...] I ha... | Harriet Countess Granville | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 November 1829:
'Ladies Sandon, Mary Saurin, Harriet an... | 'Ladies Sandon,' Mary Saurin, Harriet and Louisa Ryder | | Annuals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829:
'We have a quantity of leisure here, an... | Granville family | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829:
'We have a quantity of leisure here, an... | Harriet Countess Granville | Sumner | Records of the Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, (1-10 January 1831):
'We have the two latest French paper... | Lord and Lady Granville | | French newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, and her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 8 February 1831:
... | Harriet Countess Granville | | Galignani | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 23 September 1831:
'I could hardly believe when I read th... | Harriet Countess Granville | | society reports (on reader's own daughters) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 October 1831:
'Perhaps I am foolish in having no misgi... | Harriet Countess Granville | | 'Le Temps' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832:
'I have the greatest pleasure in reading re... | Harriet Countess Granville | Fenn | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832:
'I have the greatest pleasure in reading re... | Harriet Countess Granville | Bradley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832:
'I have the greatest pleasure in reading re... | Harriet Countess Granville | Adams | Private Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 2 August 1832:
'The cholera remains in its diminished sta... | Harriet Countess Granville | | bill/report of [cholera] mortality | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Peter Christen Asbjorsen | Round the Yule Log | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 17 August 1832:
'I enjoy my life here more than I can sa... | Harriet Countess Granville | | Louis XVIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 26 July 1833:
'I see in the "Globe" just arrived an acco... | Harriet Countess Granville | | report of death of Duke of Sutherland | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1834):
'I see with delight that your journey is... | Harriet Countess Granville | | The Morning Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834):
'The anxiety of the last two months has giv... | Harriet Countess Granville | Mrs Fry | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834):
'The anxiety of the last two months has giv... | Harriet Countess Granville | Mrs Fry | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834):
'The anxiety of the last two months has giv... | Harriet Countess Granville | Adams | Private Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834:
'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poe... | Granville Leveson Gower | ?Pierson | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 June 1835:
'I am with the window open, the orange flow... | Harriet Countess Granville | Mrs Norton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835:
'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five... | Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam | | 'comic annual' | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835:
'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five... | Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (March 1836):
'We were quite delighted with your beautifu... | Leveson Gower family | Lady Carlisle | 'verses' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 11 November 1836:
'Read Picciola. It is to me ... | Harriet Countess Granville | | Picciola | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 23 June 1837:
'I hope Granville [husband] will... | Leveson Gower family | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ernest E. Unwin | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on life and works of Richard Jefferies] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ernest E. Unwin | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Rosamund Wallis | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ursula D. Unwin | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Charles Evans | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Howard Smith | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The secretary read the following letter from John James Cooper'. [the letter, of resignation from the club, is pasted... | Ernest E. Unwin | John James Cooper | [letter of resignation from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Alfred Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Helen Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Katherine Evans | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Reginald Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Mary Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Cervantes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Charles Stansfield | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I stared at the sea far below, and thought of our English master declaring how clever Tennyson had been in saying of ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Eagle: A Fragment' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Alfred Tennyson | 'Ulysses' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Robert Browning | 'Epilogue to Asolando' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Rupert Brooke | 'Peace' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Rupert Brooke | 'The Dead' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Rupert Brooke | 'The Soldier' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read the following poem which he had received from J.J. Cooper in reply to his letter.' [the poem is pa... | Ernest E. Unwin | John James Cooper | [poem on the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Members of XII Book Club | Alfred Noyes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Charles Evans | Henry Newbolt | Clifton Chapel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Newbolt | Vitai Lampada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Alfred Rawlings | Henry Newbolt | Ballad of John Nicholson, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Mary Robson | Henry Newbolt | Vigil, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Helen Rawlings | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Katherine Evans | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Mary Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Charles Stansfield | Henry Newbolt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Ursula Unwin | Alfred Noyes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Ursula Unwin | Ursula Unwin | [paper on Alfred Noyes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Henry Newbolt] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Rupert Brooke] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Charles Stansfield | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Katherine Evans | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Mary Robson | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Charles Evans | George Meredith | 'Juggling Jerry' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Ernest E. Unwin | | [article in 'Scribners' by or about Galsworthy] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Rosamund Wallis | John Galsworthy | Freelands, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Helen Rawlings | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Alfred Rawlings | John Galsworthy | Patrician, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Ernest E. Unwin | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire:
'Let me just say that two little books you gave... | Harriet Countess Granville | | 'two little books' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839:
'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of ... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | | sermon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842:
'Did I not at Tixal translate the ... | Harriet Countess Granville | Schiller | 'Ideale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 31 May 1842:
'Did I not at Tixal translate the ... | Harriet Countess Granville | Schiller | 'Ideale' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 19 September 1842:
'Granville [husband] has fou... | Lord Granville | | Fremdenbuch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 25 November 1842:
'You have no idea of the amus... | Harriet Countess Granville | De Brosses | Lettres Historiques et Critiques sur l'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843:
'We read about Ireland with great... | Leveson Gower family | | texts on Ireland / Irish politics | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843:
'We read about Ireland with great... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | Mr Sheil | speech | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844:
'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's boo... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | 'tales' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844:
'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's boo... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | 'tales' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1844):
'I should like Miss Martineau, if somebod... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle 8 March 1844:
'"Ellen Middleton" is no longer a secret and... | Mrs Sartoris | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | Ellen Middleton | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Georgiana Fullerton [nee Leveson Gower] to her mother, Harriet, Countess Granville [from letter enclosed in lette... | Lord Clarendon | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | Ellen Middleton | Print: Unknown, In proof |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 30 October 1844:
'There is Granville, as if he... | Lord Granville | | 'an old book of plays' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had bee... | William Gifford | | treatise on algebra | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had bee... | William Gifford | Fenning | 'Introduction' [on algebra] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and ... | William Gifford | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and ... | William Gifford | Thomas a Kempis | Imitatio Christi | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and ... | William Gifford | | 'odd numbers of magazines' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice... | Members of XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Justice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice... | Members of XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Bit o' Love, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to readings from the plays of Galsworthy. The plays thus dealt with were: Justice... | Members of XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Strife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Charles Evans | Charles Evans | [paper on William Barnes and / or West Country songs] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Barnes | 'What Dick and I did' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Walter S. Rowntree | William Barnes | 'Sky Man, the' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Florence E. Reynolds | William Barnes | 'Ellen Brine of Allenburn' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Charles Evans | William Barnes | 'Settle, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | family who lived at 'Whinfell' | | 'Waggon, the' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on life of Lewis Carroll] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Charles Stansfield | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Rawlings family | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Unwin family | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Print: BookManuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Print: BookManuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Dostoevsky] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Charles Stansfield | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Ernest E. Unwin | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Katherine Evans | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Reginald Robson | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Katherine Evans | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Mary Hayward | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Reginald Robson | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Reginald Robson | Charles Stansfield | [essay on Twain] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Alfred Rawlings | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Helen Rawlings | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Charles Evans | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Charles Stansfield | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Mr Clough | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Violet Wallis | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to commen... | Vera Brittain | | Harper's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'But in "Current History" for September, Bruce Bliven, an editor of "The New Statesman", ventured upon a prophecy: "An... | Vera Brittain | Bruce Bliven | Current History | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read a letter which A. Rawlings had received from Mudies Libr. The question of using Mudies was discuss... | Ernest E. Unwin | | [letter from Mudies library] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'William Morris - Craftsman - Socialist was the subject of the meeting. The Secretary read a paper dealing with the ma... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Charles Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Katherine Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Reginald Robson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | Sigurd the Volsung | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Miss Wallis | Francis Bret Harte | 'Waif of the Plains, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Helen Rawlings | Francis Bret Harte | 'Luck of Roaring Camp, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Ursula Unwin | Francis Bret Harte | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Members of XII Book Club | Francis Bret Harte | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Ernest E. Unwin | Francis Bret Harte | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'. | Ernest E. Unwin | Pattie Stansfield | [letter to the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Gilbert Murray] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Helen Rawlings | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Elizabeth Marriage | Gilbert Murray | [translations] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| | 'Then followed the reading of 7 essays. They were supposed to be anonymous & were certainly read withot any author's n... | Members of XII book Club | [Members of XII Book Club] | [anonymous essays] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo... | Ernest E. Unwin | Francis William Bain | 'Bubbles of the Foam' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo... | Rosamund Wallis | Francis William Bain | 'Ashes of a God' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo... | Alfred Rawlings | Francis William Bain | 'Syrup of the Bees' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo... | Elizabeth Marriage | Francis William Bain | 'In the Great God's Hair' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo... | Florence Reynolds | Francis William Bain | 'Digit of the Moon' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Charles Stansfield | George Gissing | Private Papers of Henry Rycroft, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Howard R. Smith | George Gissing | New Grub Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Gissing | Odd Women, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on Gissing] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Ernest E. Unwin | George Gissing | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While under the tuition of Mr. Smerdon, Gifford had translated the "Tenth Satire" of Juvenal for a holiday task.' | William Gifford | Juvenal | Satire X | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays ... | William Gifford | Voltaire | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays ... | William Gifford | Moliere | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow (1847):
'[William Gifford] begged me to name any book to make choic... | John Barrow | De Guignes | History of the Dutch Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 2 August 1810:
'I took the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]. with me. I like it well; and I do... | Isaac Disraeli | | Quarterly Review (no. 5) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 27 June 1812:
'I cannot refrain [...] from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord... | George Prince of Wales | Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 2 July 1812, with enclosed letter of appreciation to Lord Byron:
'I trouble you with a... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813):
'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813):
'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | Thomas Moore | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | ?Richard Heber | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | Isaac Disraeli | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | Sir J. Malcolm | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the bo... | John Murray | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the bo... | | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814:
'I have read Lord Byron's "Bride of Abydos" with great delight, and on... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Blackwood to John Murray, 8 November 1814:
'Since I was a little better [following illness] I have been aga... | William Blackwood | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From letter to John Murray from his brother-in-law, Elliot, 27 June 1815:
'I was much alarmed by seeing in the news... | | | report of robbery of John Murray | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From recollections of John Murray junior:
'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A number of Members helped by reading poems from one or other of these authors' [de la Mare, Newbolt and other George... | Members of XII Book Club | | [poems by Georgian poets] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on child study] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter from Miss Ethel C. Stevens offering to entertain the Book Club for the Sept meeting was read' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ethel C. Stevens | [letter to XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Wells's 'Romances'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Reginald Robson | Herbert George Wells | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Herbert George Wells | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Mary Hayward | Herbert George Wells | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Mary Hayward | Herbert George Wells | [extracts from novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814:
'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Eagle | Journal of Penrose, the Seaman | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray (1815):
'I have for the first time looked into "Pride and Prejudice;" and it is real... | Wiliam Gifford | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815:
'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] --... | Wiliam Gifford | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815:
'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] --... | Wiliam Gifford | Jane Austen | Emma | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Number 24 of the [Quarterly] Review pleased Gifford very much. In writing to [John] Murray on
the subject, he said [... | Wiliam Gifford | Lyall | review of Stewart, Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brillian... | Rev. P. Elmsley | | The Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brillian... | Rev. P. Elmsley | F. Cohen | [?review of] Paradise of Coquettes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brillian... | Rev. P. Elmsley | F. Cohen | [?review of] Brand's Popular Antiquities | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review:
'I think you have not been very brillian... | Rev. P. Elmsley | | article on King of Saxony | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | The Hon. George Lamb | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate
Goethe's Faust:
'Think... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate
Goethe's Faust:
'Think... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Voss | Louisa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817:
'I read Southey's article [...] It is, in my judgement, a very maste... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Southey | article on Parliamentary Reform | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809:
'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through y... | Thomas Campbell | Walter Scott | review of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etc | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1816):
'I send you seven stories [for 'Stories for Children from the History of ... | John Murray | John Wilson Croker | Stories for Children from the History of England (extracts) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815):
'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth / Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815):
'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal ... | Isaac D'Israeli | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 4 January 1816:
'Nothing can be more interestingly framed and more interestingly told than th... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dr John Polidori, Byron's secretary, to John Murray, 10 July 1816:
'Since it has given you hopes of entering well i... | John Polidori | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816, on William Gifford's response to Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage, Canto IV:
'... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold IV | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | Samuel Rogers | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | Stratford Canning | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | Sir James Mackintosh | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems [apparently including Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817:
'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I recei... | Augusta Leigh | Walter Scott | Review of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816):
'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interest... | Lady Caroline Lamb | ?Thomas ?Holcroft | Life [?of Thomas Holcroft] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816):
'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interest... | Lady Caroline Lamb | | 'Lady Calantha Limb' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816):
'They say a black mare of mine (not the one I ride, but a beautiful one) ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'Swiss Journal [letter]' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | | French play | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | | play | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817:
'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the ... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818:
'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818):
'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand tha... | Augusta Leigh | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan, Cantos I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and S... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatur... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sardanapalus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain:
'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight ... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain, a Mystery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822:
'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he h... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain, a Mystery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att... | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within th... | British Population (general) | | [German literature] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on H.G. Wells' religious development] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Charles Stansfield | Herbert George Wells | First and Last Things. Confession of Faith and Rule of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Charles Stansfield | Herbert George Wells | God the Invisible King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Charles Stansfield | Herbert George Wells | Soul of a Bishop, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Miss Hayward | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Conrad] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Charles Evans and Henry Marriage Wallis | Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Florence Reynolds | Joseph Conrad | Almayer's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Helen Rawlings | Joseph Conrad | Typhoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Reginald Robson | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Alfred and Janet Rawlings | Robert Louis Stevenson | Apology for Idlers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Christmas at Sea' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Tropic Rain' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Vagabond' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Ernest E. Unwin | Robert Louis Stevenson | Travels with a Donkey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Louis Stevenson | Master of Ballantrae, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Charles and Katherine Evans | Robert Louis Stevenson | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | members of XII Book Club | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | members of XII Book Club | Robert Louis Stevenson | Island Nights' Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on psychic phenomena] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on the sub-conscious] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the spirit world] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the absence of C.E. Stansfield Mrs Stansfield read extracts from Raymond chosen by C.E.S.' | Pattie Stansfield | Raymond | [a text on spiritualism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Reginald Robson | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on an altar stone found near Carthage] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the mind and its training] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Charles Stansfield | Reginald Robson | [paper on political situation] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [essay on 'The Humours of Man'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper introducing Balzac] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Wild Ass's Skin, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Mary Robson | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Rosamund Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Christ in Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Ursula Unwin | | [essay in 'Everyman' on Balzac] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Nature of Poetry.
C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poet... | Charles Evans | Henry Newbolt | [writings on Nature of poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Nature of Poetry.
C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poet... | Alfred Rawlings | Thomas Walls Dutton | [writings on Nature of poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [essay on Keats' life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Elizabeth Marriage | John Keats | Ode on a Grecian Urn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Katherine Evans | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Mary Robson | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Charles Stansfield | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Charles Evans | John Keats | [1820 poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & confirmed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on the Comic] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ... | Members of XII Book Club | | [readings to illustrate the theme of the Comic] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed u... | Ernest E. Unwin | [a member of the XII book Club] | [open letter to the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Katherine Edwards | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Ernest E. Unwin | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Leslie's 'The End of a Chapter'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Algernon Blackwood | Garden of Survival, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Mary Hayward | Richard Jefferies | Story of my Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Shane Leslie | End of a Chapter, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Another [woman prisoner] read and re-read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," till
she must have known by heart every incident of t... | | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Mrs Molesworth | The Tapestry Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Pigeon Pie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Eliza Meteyard | Lillian's Golden Hours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Hesba Stretton | The Christmas Child | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Walter Scott | The Talisman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Robert Louis Stevenson | St Ives | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Alain-Réné Lesage (Le Sage) | The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santilane | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | J.M. Neale | Theodora Phranza | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | A.D. Crake | The House of Walderne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Black Arrow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Caged Lion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Little Duke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Rudyard Kipling | The Maltese Cat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | William Harrison Ainsworth | Boscobel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook’s Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Rudyard Kipling | Rewards and Fairies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Armourer’s Apprentice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de Poraj | Pan Tadeuz | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ... | Joseph Conrad | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Lady Holland | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Lord John Russell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Mr Luttrell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Blackwood to John Murray (early January 1815), on having seen a copy of Guy
Mannering during a visit to his ... | | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of Janaury 1815 Blackwood wrote to Murray that he had seen Ballantyne, and
found a copy of "Guy Ma... | William Blackwood | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Blackwood to John Murray (early 1815):
'Yesterday I wrote a letter of thanks to Ballantyne for the delight ... | William Blackwood | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering (vols I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In October [1815] Scott published his poem, the "Field of Waterloo," and its appearance
convinced Blackwood [incorr... | William Blackwood | Walter Scott | The Field of Waterloo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | Lord Holland and family | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | Lord and Lady Glenbervie | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | John Hookham Frere | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | Henry Hallam | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | Richard Heber | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | William Lamb | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | William Gifford | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on ... | Walter Scott | Henry Mackenzie | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Received a letter from Sir W. Knighton mentioning that the King acquiesced in my proposal that Constable's Miscellany ... | Walter Scott | Archibald Constable | Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, the Sciences, & the Arts | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to William Blackwood, following a period of illness:
'I am greatly better, but not able to write. The ... | Walter Scott | Isaac D'Israeli | Curiosities of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818:
'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the orig... | Walter Scott | Patrick Walker | 'Lives of Cameron [etc]' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818:
'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the orig... | Walter Scott | Patrick Walker | 'Lives of Cameron [etc]' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Blackwood to John Murray (May 1817):
'What a treat you have given to Mrs. B. and me in "Riley"! I never rea... | William and Mrs Blackwood | Captain Riley | The Authentic Narrative of the loss of the American Brig Commerce, on the Western Coast of Africa, with the sufferings of her surviving Officers and Crew | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830:
'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly g... | John Barrow | Macleod | Voyage of the Alceste to China | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817:
'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lo... | Maria Graham | George Gordon Lord Byron | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817:
'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lo... | Maria Graham | | 'a Danish account of the north of Africa' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | John Barrow | Review of Dupin, On the Navy of England and France | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Francis Cohen | 'Astrology and Alchemy' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | T. Mitchell | Review of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient Greeks | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Col. Matthews | 'article on Hazlitt' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Nassau senior | '[article] on the Scotch novels' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1821:
'Ramsgate is still empty and dull; our good weather fled with the ... | John Wilson Croker | | court news | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books:
'[The Marquess of Aberc... | Marquess of Abercorn | | 'Grecian history and antiquity' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books:
'[The Marquess of Aberc... | Marquess of Abercorn | Henry Ellis | Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to China, comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Peiho to the Return to Canton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books:
'[The Marquess of Aberc... | Marquess of Abercorn | John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste | Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, in reponse to a gift of books:
'Lord Abercorn says he thinks your condu... | Lord and Lady Abercorn | John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste | Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray (1817-18):
'Pray send us Miss Austen's novels the moment you can. Lord A... | Lord Abercorn | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818:
'It was with your usual kindness that you sent us the "Heart of Midl... | Isaac D'Israeli and family | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818:
'Mr. Stewart [Mr. Murray's clerk] has been so attentive as to send m... | Isaac D'Israeli | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giovanni Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822:
'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can ... | The Hon. William Lamb | Lady Caroline Lamb | Ada Reis | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]):
'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Captain Lyon | Private Journal during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1824 [sic] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Hajji Baba" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it,... | Walter Scott | James Morier | Hajji Baba | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Gifford to John Murray, 29 April 1826 [sic]:
'I see with regret in the papers of this morning that my poor ... | William Gifford | | report of death of William Moorcroft in India | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Professor W. T. Brande to John Murray, 2 January 1826:
'Sir H. Davy [...] is extremely sore at Mr. Daniell's paper ... | Sir Humphry Davy | Daniell | paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Sidney Colvin | Landor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can b... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederick James Furnivall | Review in The Academy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one li... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed'. | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to a reading of Drinkwater 'Abraham Lincoln' - most members taking part' | members of XII Book Club | John Drinkwater | Abraham Lincoln | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Hardy's life and work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | 'Three Travellers, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Rosamund Wallis | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Ernest E. Unwin | Laurence Binyon | [criticism of Hardy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the subject Gilbert & Sullivan's operas. Mr R.B. Graham read an able paper dealing w... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | [paper on Gilbert & Sullivan] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Elizabeth Marriage | Edmund Gosse | Two visits to Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | [literary criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Charles Evans | Edmund Gosse | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Ernest E. Unwin | Edmund Gosse | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Violet Wallis read a paper on Carols'. [the paper's contents are summarised] | Violet Wallis | Violet Wallis | [paper on carols] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on Miracle and Morality plays] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ursula Unwin | anon. | Everyman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ernest E. Unwin | anon. | York Miracle Cycle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | 'Knickerbocker' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | The American Dutchmen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I hav... | Mary Shelley | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, acknowledging his gift of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831):
'I hav... | Mary Shelley | Frances Burney | 'Memoirs of Dr Burney' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828:
'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole'... | John Wilson Croker | Horace Walpole | 'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829:
'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Mo... | Walter Scott | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm,... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830:
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing ... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831:
'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and p... | Mary Somerville | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831:
'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and p... | Mary Somerville | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'I have sat up al... | Colonel D'Aguilar | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'No doubt there are longeu... | John Wilson Croker | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831:
'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m... | John Wilson Croker | Leigh Hunt | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831:
'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m... | John Wilson Croker | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831:
'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and thoug... | Gally Knight | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839):
'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morn... | Francis Head | | Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839:
'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which late... | Francis Head | | Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 1 April 1839:
'I cannot help thanking you for having sent us such a shower of Qu... | Sir Francis Head and (apparently) female family members | John Wilson Croker | 'Colonial Government -- Head's Narrative [of his Administration in Upper Canada] -- Lord Durham's Report' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835:
'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have b... | Sir Alexander Burnes | Sir John MacNeill | 'England, France, Russia, and Turkey' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832:
'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co... | Joanna Baillie | Frances Kemble | Francis the First | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832:
'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co... | Joanna Baillie | | reviews of Frances Kemble, Francis the First | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832):
'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me... | Fanny Kemble | Milman | Review of Fanny Kemble, Francis the First | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Dacre to John Murray, 27 May 1835:
'Thousands of thanks, dear Mr. Murray, for allowing us to read those sheets... | Lord and Lady Dacre | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of residence in America] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835:
'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen ... | Sir Francis B. Head | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of residence in America] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836:
'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don'... | Fanny Kemble Butler | Captain Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Callcott to John Murray (c.1835):
'Let me thank you for Mrs. Butler: very clever, very romantic, some excellen... | Lady Callcott | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of her residence in America] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837:
'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. ..... | Caroline Norton | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840:
'Blessed be he [sic] who lately wrote "Cecil" (though it be but a nov... | Caroline Norton | Catherine Gore | Cecil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840:
'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till... | Caroline Norton | H. Nelson Coleridge | 'Modern English Poetesses' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837:
'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro... | Scrope Davies | | 'Bubbles' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837:
'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro... | Scrope Davies | Washington Irving | 'Stout Gentleman' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | 'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of Art | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me spr... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean-Pierre Lanfry | Histoire de Napoleon 1er | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald | Life of George IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of 'The Winter's Tale'. The production was under the joint managemen... | Members of XII Book Club | William Shakespeare | Winter's Tale, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Violet Wallis read a paper on the Faust legends from the point of view of Medieval History. It was a most interesting... | Violet Wallis | Violet Wallis | [paper on Faust legends] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finish... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Goethe's 'Faust']] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finish... | Charles Stansfield | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was occupied by the reading of Dr Faustus. The various parts were read by the members - ... | Members of XII Book Club including Charles Evans and Reginald Robson | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A play-reading of Galsworthy's Skin-Game was then given. The members taking part were as follows
Hillcrest R.H. Robs... | Members of the XII Book club | John Galsworthy | Skin Game, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed' | | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jon... | Charles Evans | Charles Evans | [paper on Ben Jonson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Ben Jonson | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | R.B. Graham | Ben Jonson | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Charles Evans | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Rosamund Wallis | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836:
'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review... | Lord Mahon | Lockhart | article on Lord Mahon | Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy' |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836:
'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review... | Lord Mahon | Lord Wellesley | 'Letter [on the character of Pitt, addressed to J. W. Croker]' | Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy' |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836:
'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review... | Lord Mahon | Sir George Murray | 'article on Napier' | Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy' |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Mahon to John Murray, 7 December 1840:
'Mr. Gladstone's volume has of late engaged much of my attention. It is... | Lord Mahon | W. E. Gladstone | Church and State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Longman to John Murray, from 2 Hanover Terrace (1838):
'Can you oblige me by letting me have a third volume of [... | Mr Alexander | | 'Wilberforce' vol. 3 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | W. J. Broderip to John Murray, submitting Captain W. Cornwallis Harris's Wild Sports in South
Africa, 8 April 1839:
... | W. J. Broderip | Captain W. Cornwallis Harris | Wild Sports in South Africa | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Palgrave to John Murray:
'I have many thanks to give you for the kind present of my cousin's "Letters on Estho... | Lady Palgrave | Miss Rigby | 'Letters from Esthonia' [?i.e. Letters from the Baltic] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840:
'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I hav... | Sir Robert Peel | | 'Handbook' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840:
'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I hav... | Sir Robert Peel | | 'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842:
'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end ital... | Sir Francis Head | | The Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839:
'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures ... | | Hallam | 'Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842:
'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with ... | George Borrow | Miss Rigby | Letters from the Baltic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842:
'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with ... | George Borrow | | Review of Miss Rigby, Letters from the Baltic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842:
'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in... | George Borrow | | Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842:
'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in... | George Borrow | | Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843:
'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain... | George Borrow | | Review of George Borrow, The Bible in Spain | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | W. E. Gladstone to John Murray (from January 1843), on Lieutenant Eyre, Military Operations in
Cabool [sic for Kabul... | W. E. Gladstone | Lieutenant Eyre | Military Operations in Cabool | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 19 April 1843:
'I was at a committee this morning, when I heard a gentleman say... | Mr Bouverie | Lady Sale | Journal [of experience of retreat from Afghanistan] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexander Ireland | List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt : chronologically arranged with notes, descriptive, critical, and explanatory; and a selection of opinions regarding their genius and characteristics, by distinguished contemporaries and friends as we | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed (not entirely accurately) in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes from a later edition of th... | Edward Pordage | Edward Leedes | English Examples. To be Turned into Latin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against S... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against S... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | Epistle to the Whigs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrate... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. Written after the Celebration of his Funerall' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the ... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Sprat | 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. Pindarick Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plag... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Sprat | The Plague of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from Samuel Pordage's Azaria and Hushai. A Poem (... | Edward Pordage | Samuel Pordage | Azaria and Hushai. A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and... | Edward Pordage | John Dryden | The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes on Raymond Lull's Art of Memory, copied from the second... | Edward Pordage | Richard Saunders | Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, … Whereunto is Added the Art of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes on memory from Francis Bacon's Of the proficience and a... | Edward Pordage | Francis Bacon | Of the proficience and advancement of learning | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Vaughan | Magia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the Descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfect and full discovery of the true Cœlum Terræ, or the Magicians Heavenly Chaos, & first Matter of all Things. By Eugenius Philalethes. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a ... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Vaughan | The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of ... | Edward Pordage | Michał Sędziwój | A New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain of Nature & Manual Experi-ence. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Wilson | The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Reading notes from the second edition of Samuel Chandler's An... | Edward Pordage | Samuel Chandler | An Impartial Account of the Portsmouth Disputation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Extensive reading notes from Robert Ferguson's A View of an E... | Edward Pordage | Robert Ferguson | A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins, or a Just Reprimand given to Mr Alsop, for his Foppish, Pedantick, Detractive, and Petulant Way of Writing. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's... | Edward Pordage | John Newton | The Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fractions With a Table of Logarithms, &c. — For ye use of ye English Mathematical School and Grammar School at Ross in Herefordshire. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James ... | Edward Pordage | James Howell | Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ familiar letters, domestic and forren: divided into four books, partly historical, political, philosophical, upon emergent occasions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to a play-reading. Gilbert Murray's translation of The Agamemnon had been selecte... | Members of the XII Book Club | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Alfred Rawlings | Anon. | Migrations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | 'Pious Atrocity, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Florence Reynolds | | 'Wedding Presents' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | William Henry Smith | Rudyard Kipling | 'How the Camel got his Hump' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Rosamund Wallis | A.A. Milne | 'Man of the Evening, The' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Sylvanus Reynolds | | Arms of Wipplecrack | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Henry Marriage Wallis | E.V. Lucas | Joints in the Armour | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | 'Bad Morality & Bad art' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | 'Etaples & the Air raids' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | Robert Browning | 'In a gondola' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Reginald Robson | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Alfred Rawlings | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Mr Gidham | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Katherine Evans | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some &#... | Robert Louis Stevenson | | | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Rosamund Wallis | William Henry Hudson | Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ernest E. Unwin | William Henry Hudson | Book of a Naturalist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ursula Unwin | William Henry Hudson | Hampshire Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ernest E. Unwin | William Henry Hudson | [naturalist writing] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Charles Evans | William Henry Hudson | [writing on Hampshire villages] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last two meetings read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted (except for a pianoforte solo & a pianola performance) to a dramatic rendering of... | Members of XII Reading Group | | [Penn and Mead trial] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Mary Robson | Miss Cole | [paper on life of Fanny Burney] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Miss Stevens | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Ursula Unwin | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Reginald Robson | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Howard R. Smith | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Ernest E. Unwin | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Miss Cole | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Miss Cole | Fanny Burney | [works and diary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Love Peacock] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Charles Evans | Thomas Love Peacock | War Song of Dinas Vawr, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Ernest E. Unwin | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Charles Evans | Thomas Love Peacock | Three Men of Gotham | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | R.B. Graham | Thomas Love Peacock | [poems from the novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Miss Cole | Thomas Love Peacock | Love and Age | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Love Peacock | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 November 1858:
'Went to Drury lane [theatre] where we had stalls. The Opera was the Maritana, and was pretty enou... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | report of death of W. Blagrove | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 17 July 1859:
'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed wi... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 8 February 1875:
'We had an agreeable journey to Folkestone where we took ship [for china-collecting expedition in ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Kingsley | Hereward | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | Life of Macaulay | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 July 1876, from Brussels:
'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaul... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 2 July 1876, from Brussels:
'After I went to bed I read over that wonderful part of Macaulay's History, the death o... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Makepeace Thackeray | Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Mrs Elliot | Old Court Life in France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Earl of Bessborough describes events following Lady Charlotte Schreiber and her husband's sale of 'a gourd-shaped ... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Pottier | works on ceramics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 27 May 1878:
'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of soun... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 27 May 1878:
'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of soun... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil, or The Two Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That evening [12 June 1878] the Schreibers read an announcement in the Times that Sir Charles Du Cane, whom they had ... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | report of Sir Charles Du Cane's appointment to Government post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 19 June 1878:
'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | ?Benjamin ?Disraeli | Alroy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 June 1878:
'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | Wilhelm Meister | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 10 July 1878:
'This morning we saw in the Times of the 28th ult., that Sir E. Tyler is the probable candidate for C... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | report of Sir E. Tyler's probable Parliamentary canditature | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 14 July 1878:
'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gor... | Enid Layard | Ouida | Friendship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 14 July 1878:
'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gor... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Lecky | History of the Eighteenth Century in England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After a few days at Canford the Schreibers visited Lord St. Germans, a great invalid, at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Lady... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 15 October 1879, from Berlin:
'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 October 1879, from Berlin:
'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | history plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selection... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Mrs Edwards, ed. | Selections from the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespea... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Harrison Ainsworth | South Sea Bubble | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 November 1879:
'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Benjamin Disraeli | pamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cyprus] | |
| 1850-1899 | [following journal entry for 1 November 1879] 'The next few days [following seven weeks' travels in Europe] were occup... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Makepeace Thackeray | Humorists | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 25 November 1879, following account of husband's attendance at Conservative Party dinner at Poole, and late return hom... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | Psalm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 7 December 1879:
'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Re... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Freeman | 'account of the Bayeux tapestry' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 7 December 1879:
'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Re... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Makepeace Thackeray | Humorists | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Freer | Anne of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Freer | Henri III | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Freer | Jeanne d'Albret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 March 1880:
'He [Charles Schreiber, reader's husband] canvassed again [as Parliamentary candidate for Poole] fro... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | Memoirs of the Cambridge A. D. C. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 15 March 1880:
'I read in this morning's Times that Merthyr [Guest, son by her first marriage] has accepted the req... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | report of Merthyr Guest's Parliamentary candidacy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 29 March 1880:
'I have not read very much since I came here, but have finished Miss Freer's memoirs of that bold, b... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Freer | memoir of Henri IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 29 March 1880:
'I had one of my wakeful nights and read a great deal of the Life of Marguerite de Valois, Philip's ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | Life of Marguerite de Valois | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 12 April 1880:
'Towards the evening there came a telegram from Mr. Drysdale, drawing attention to a notice in the E... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | report on Liberal petition against return of Charles Schreiber to Parliament | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have given me a very invidious task.[...]. Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fast... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds | How 'Twas: Short Stories and Small Travels. | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I won't say anything of "The Pigeon"-- except that it reads admirably and that I have been fascinated by the theme an... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very Fre... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox (Footnote: William Knox), a young poet of considerab... | Walter Scott | William Knox | Lonely Hearth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a we... | Walter Scott | Michael Bruce | Elegy - Written in Spring | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit ... | Walter Scott | Ben Jonson | Everyman in his Humour | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.' | Walter Scott | Harriet Wilson | Memoirs | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Charity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional ... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edwin) A.(August) Bjorkman | Voices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spirit of Literature | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was ve... | Joseph Conrad | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A... | Joseph Conrad | Thomas Reed | House Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Steamship Companies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A... | Joseph Conrad | H.|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson | The Fog | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 li... | Joseph Conrad | Norman Douglas | Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a ... | Francis Warrington Dawson | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Sin | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's ["The Inn of Tranquillity"] wholly excellent and certainly fascinating.[...] Of course I had read many of the pa... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Inn of Tranquillity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"].... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Shadows out of the Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of abso... | Joseph Conrad | Arnold Bennett | Leonora | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon | [political manifesto] | Print: Poster, election posters. |
| 1850-1899 | 'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himse... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and the Deductions from Physical Science | |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded y... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | 'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'. | Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan. |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Tristan Bernard | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Elémir Bourges | Le Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs Contemporaines | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol... | Joseph Conrad | Elémir Bourges | (probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | Pierre Loti: Biographie-critique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | L'enseignement de Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a secon... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Novel of George (published as The Pyramid) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well concei... | Joseph Conrad | André Ruyters | Le Mauvais Riche | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am ch... | Joseph Conrad | Marguerite Poradowska | Hors du Foyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work.I spotted it first in the old... | Joseph Conrad | James Marie Hopper | Caybigan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"... | Joseph Conrad | J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker | The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 1... | Joseph Conrad | Sara Morgan Dawson | A Confederate Girl's Diary | Manuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text) |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects ... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first read... | Joseph Conrad | Valéry-Nicolas Larbaud | A.O.Barnabooth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Phi... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | The Problems of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | Philosophical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volum... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Malayan Monochromes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well o... | Vera Brittain | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years... | Vera Brittain | Winston Churchill | The Gathering Storm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days l... | Vera Brittain | Storm Jameson | No Time Like the Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with ... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Knave of Hearts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am proud to learn that there is [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Les Caves du Vatican (Book 1) | Print: see additional information |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Hatchment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life... | Joseph Conrad | (Lady) Margaret Brooke | My Life in Sarawak | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Bunyan's life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [paper on Bunyan's writing] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Mrs Smith | John Bunyan | Grace Abounding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Charles Evans | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Reginald Robson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Ursula Unwin | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Charles Stansfield | John Bunyan | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the copy of the "E.[English] R.[Review]". You won't mind me saying that your article on international poli... | Joseph Conrad | Austin Harrison | Foreign Politics | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read and signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Maurice Hewlett | Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Howard R. Smith | Maurice Hewlett | Forest Lovers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | R.B. Graham | Maurice Hewlett | [article in The Nation] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jad... | Joseph Conrad | L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-Byng | A Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Maurice Hewlett | Queen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Howard R. Smith | Maurice Hewlett | Forest Lovers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Maurice Hewlett | Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Charles Evans | Maurice Hewlett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories "Life is a Dream"-- not all in the... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Life is a Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesti... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Tolstoy:A Study (also catalogued as Tolstoy: His Life and Writings) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having wr... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | Henry James:A Critical Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the "Times".' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.' | Joseph Conrad | A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] Bradley | Shakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public t... | Vera Brittain | Raymond Swing | Harper's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise th... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.' | Vera Brittain | Phyllis Bentley | Inheritance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After reading these books, I began to ask: "Why should these young men have the war to themselves? Didn't women have... | Vera Brittain | | [books on war topics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to a reading of Oliver Cromwell by John Drinkwater'. | Members of XII Book Club | John Drinkwater | Oliver Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on History of Berkshire] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Rosamund Wallis | Thomas of Reading | [tale about murders in Reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | | 'Berkshire Lady, A' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. Th... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Piltdown Woman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Ernest E. Unwin | Thomas de Quincey | Recollections of Charles Lamb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Constance Wallis | Thomas de Quincey | Suspiria de Profundis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Elizabeth Marriage | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | Thomas de Quincey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Florence Reynolds | Thomas de Quincey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Helen Rawlings | Celia Cole | [paper on de Quincey] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Celia Cole | Celia Cole | [paper on de Quincey] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | members of XII Book Club | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read and signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Stansfield | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Evans | John Burroughs | Under the Apple Trees | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Evans | Higson | Of an Orchard | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Katherine Evans | A.C Curtis | Small Garden Useful, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Evans | Thomas Edward Brown | My Garden | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Evans | Sidney Lanier | Ballad of Trees and the Master, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Rosamund Wallis | | My Garden, a parody | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Celia Cole | Robert Browning | 'Flower's Name, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Celia Cole | Rudyard Kipling | 'Gardens' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today I saw a good review of your book ["Bernal Diaz del Castillo"] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am g... | Joseph Conrad | Agnes Herbert | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the book ["The Little Man"]. "Abracadabra" is immense. Indeed every page is as full as it can be right thr... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Little Man and other satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Little Man and other satires | Print: galley proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ... | Joseph Conrad | W. H. (William Henry) Davies | either The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ... | Joseph Conrad | unknown unknown | Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached m... | Joseph Conrad | Violet Hunt | The House of Many Mirrors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an ... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Concentration in English Poetry | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they asto... | Joseph Conrad | Frederic Harrison | The German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914, Realities 1915, Hopes 191- | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it a... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Freelands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | EITHER Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations OR When Blood is their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable refer... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bernal Diaz de Castillo:Being Some Account of Him Taken From His True History of the Conquest of New Spain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) ti... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) | The Good Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Ernest E. Unwin | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Reginald Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Rosamund Wallis | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Mary Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Rosamund Wallis | | [readings from ballads] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Alfred Rawlings | | Demon Lover, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Rosamund Wallis | | Thomas the Rhymer | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | R.B. Graham | | Edward, Edward | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Reginald Robson | | Sir Patrick Spens | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Howard R. Smith | | Bonnie House of Airlie, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Charles and Katherine Evans | | Nut Brown Maid | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Alfred Rawlings | | Death of Robin Hood | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Elizabeth Marriage | | Battle of Otterburn, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | Helen of Kirconnel | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Helen Rawlings | | Undaunted Mary | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [paper on Dr Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Boswell] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Alfred Rawlings | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Ernest E. Unwin | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Reginald Robson | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Charles Evans | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | The Echo of Voices | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The "[Ivory] Apes and Peacocks" book is good and immensely characteristic of our extremely "alive" friend.'
Hence fo... | Joseph Conrad | J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker | Ivory Apes and Peacocks | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion t... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Samuel Pepys | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880]
'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acqui... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Samuel Pepys | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880]
'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acqui... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Horace Walpole | Walpoliana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880]
'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in L... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 26 January and 29 September 1881]
'When Parliament adjourned for a recess in April Cha... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 November 1881:
'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thacke... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Thackeray | 'sketch [on Mme de Sevigne]' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommend... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommend... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Stanley | Jewish Church | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommend... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Green | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommend... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Junius | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was delighted with Miss Glasgow's novel ["Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage"]; the insight, the ma... | Joseph Conrad | Ellen (Anderson Gholson) Glasgow | Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | Notes of a Son and Brother | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "[The]Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.' | Joseph Conrad | (Basil) Macdonald Hastings | The Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reac... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Figures of Several Centuries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to a Play-Reading of Bernard Shaw's Candida.' | Members of XII book Club | George Bernard Shaw | Candida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Laurence Housman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Charles and Katherine Evans | Evans | [paper on Housman's 'The Sheepfold'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | [paper on Housman's 'Little Plays of St.Francis'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Housman's 'New Child's Guide to Knowledge'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Elizabeth Marriage, Ernest Unwin & Alfred Rawlings | Laurence Housman | Queen, The! God Bless Her | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Laurence Housman | Englishwoman's Love-letters, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Katherine and Charles Evans | Laurence Housman | Sheepfold, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | R.B. Graham | Laurence Housman | Little Plays of St. Francis, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Laurence Housman | New Child's Guide to Knowledge | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Ernest E. Unwin | Harold Begbie | [book of 'backstairs biographies'] | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Charles Evans | L.P. Jacks | From the Human End | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Charles and Pattie Stansfield | L.P. Jacks | 'The Magic Formula' | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Charles and Pattie Stansfield | L.P. Jacks | 'Made out of Nothing' | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Howard R. Smith | L.P. Jacks | 'Farmer Jeremy and his Ways' | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Ernest E. Unwin | L.P. Jacks | 'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath' | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Ernest E. Unwin | L.P. Jacks | ['Snarley Bob' tales] | Print: Book |
| | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed' | Howard R. Smith | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| | 'Mr & Mrs Unwin & Miss Bowman Smith gave a vivacious reading of a clever & witty sketch, "A Lesson in Pearls" by Mrs B... | Ernest & Ursula Unwin & Muriel Bowman Smith | Mrs Barry Pain | 'A Lesson in Pearls' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellen... | | unknown | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see the "Obs[erv]er" every Sunday and I am waiting the next number with impatience.' [ For a review by Sidney Colvi... | Joseph Conrad | | Observer newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the Ea... | Joseph Conrad | | Singapore Free Press | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose "Modern Utopia" had been a b... | Vera Brittain | Herbert George Wells | Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for ... | Joseph Conrad | Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) | Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entire... | St. John Ervine | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax:
"Your book, I thin... | George Catlin | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As he left Frankfort the passengers in the train were discussing the break-up of the Disarmament Conference, and in L... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament ... | Vera Brittain | H. N. Brailsford | The New Clarion | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from... | Vera Brittain | anon | Fascists at Olympia | |
| 1850-1899 | 16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa:
'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy.... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa:
'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy.... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa:
'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy.... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 November 1884:
'Ivor [son] went to attend a Conservative meeting summoned by Lord Salisbury to settle to
new p... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | reports on talks towards Franchise Bill | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 1 December 1884, from Canford:
'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature dra... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Cooke | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 1 December 1884, from Canford:
'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature dra... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Froude | life of Thomas Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 20 December 1884:
'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself
... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Thackeray | 'sketch [of Maria Edgeworth]' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 20 December 1884:
'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself
... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Thackeray | 'sketch [of Anna Laetitia Barbauld]' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 20 December 1884:
'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself
... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Miss Thackeray | 'sketch [of Amelia Opie]' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 21 August 1886:
'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macauley | Essay on Atterbury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 21 August 1886:
'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macauley | History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 6 December 1886:
'I have just come in from Regent's Park, where, notwithstanding a bitter wind, I went and read
m... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | | Divine service | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887]
'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovere... | Maria [nee Guest] | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 3 April 1887:
'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to
which... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charlotte Bertie Guest | journals of c.1833 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 4 April 1887:
'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is
that... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Charlotte Bertie Guest | journals | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 1 October 1887:
'Henry [Layard, son-in-law] has given me the revises of a new book on his early travels,
which Mu... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Henry Layard | 'book on his early travels' | Print: In proofs from John Murray |
| 1850-1899 | [between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889]
'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian h... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Horatio Brown | Venetian Studies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889, concerning period following
Easter 1888]
'In orde... | | | Nollekens and his Times | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood w... | Vera Brittain | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | New England Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, "Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier".' | George Catlin | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the time of her death I had read only part of "South Riding", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no re... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Charles Evans | Geoffrey Young [?] | 'Mountain Playmates' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Mary Hayward | Leslie Stephen | [account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Alfred Rawlings | Edward Whymper | [on mountaineering accidents] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Howard R. Smith | Henry Marriage Wallis | [parody of 'We are Seven'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Francis Pollard | Anatole France | La Reine Pedauque | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Alfred Rawlings | Anatole France | La Reine Pedauque | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Reginald Robson | Anatole France | Penguin Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Katherine Evans | Anatole France | Garden of Epicures, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Elizabeth Marriage | Anatole France | Red Lily, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Helen Rawlings | Anatole France | Life of Joan of Arc, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Elizabeth Marriage | Anatole France | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | George Burrow | John Masefield | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | George Burrow | John Masefield | 'Everlasting Mercy, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Charles Evans | John Masefield | 'Sea Change' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Charles Evans | John Masefield | 'Cargoes' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Charles Evans | John Masefield | 'Ships' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Howard R. Smith | John Masefield | 'Reynard the Fox' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Gallipoli | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Tewkesbury Road' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Beauty' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'I Went into the Fields' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Laugh and be Merry' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'By a Bierside' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Reginald Robson | Arthur Quiller-Couch | 'Once aboard the lugger' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a poem] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Charles Evans | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Interlude: On Jargon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Howard R. Smith | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Mayor of Troy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Elizabeth Marriage | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Charles Stansfield | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Foe-Farrell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [following journal entry for 19 February 1889]
'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanch... | Blanche Countess of Bessborough | Henry Layard | article on Lord Beaconsfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890]
'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read... | Mr Upton | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890]
'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read... | Mr Upton | | 'book' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890]
'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read... | Miss Moody | | texts including 'some memoirs' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890]
'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read... | | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story... | Mary Darby | Alexander Pope | Lines to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story... | Mary Darby | Mason | Elegy upon the death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from tha... | Mary Darby | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from tha... | Meribah Lorrington | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from tha... | Meribah Lorrington | Mary Darby | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Lord Lyttleton] presented me with the works of Miss Aikin (now Mrs Barbauld). I read them with rapture; I thought th... | Mary Robinson | Anna Laetitia Aikin | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] Th... | George Robert Fitzgerald | Mary Robinson | 'pastoral [poem]' | Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Account of Mary Robinson's deathbed, from the 'Continuation by a Friend' of her memoirs:
'Pressing to her heart her... | Mary Robinson | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,'... | Mr Rutherford | Pliny the Younger | account of eruption of Vesuvius over Pompeii | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,'... | Mr Rutherford | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,'... | Eliza Fenwick junior | | Morning Service | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [paper on George Sand] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Celia Burrow | George Sand | Tillage of the Soil, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Howard R. Smith | George Sand | Consuelo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Charles Stansfield | George Sand | Devil's Pool, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Florence E. Reynolds | George Sand | Countess of Rudolfstadt, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Sabine Baring-Gould | John Herring | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Mary Pollard | Sabine Baring-Gould | Broom Squire, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Francis Pollard | Sabine Baring-Gould | Strange Survivals and Superstitions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Howard R. Smith | Sabine Baring-Gould | Vicar of Morwenstow, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Sabine Baring-Gould | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Sabine Baring-Gould | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members ... | members of XII Book Club | William Butler Yeats | Land of Heart's Desire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members ... | members of XII Book Club | William Butler Yeats | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members ... | Celia Burrow | William Butler Yeats | 'Down by the Salley Gardens' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Charles Stansfield | Anthony Trollope | Doctor Thorne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Howard R. Smith | Anthony Trollope | Prime Minister, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Reginald Robson | Anthony Trollope | Warden, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Francis Pollard | Anthony Trollope | Three Clerks, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | [essay on Trollope] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Francis Pollard | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | R.B. Graham | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Charles Stansfield | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Charles Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Charles and Katherine Evans | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary reported that he had found "Ebony & Ivory" to be an unsuitable book to go round the club & had procured... | Howard R. Smith | Llewelyn Powys | Ebony and Ivory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | George Burrow | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | R.B. Graham and Francis Pollard | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Katherine Evans | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Series of Character Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Mary Robson | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Revolution in Tanner's Lane, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Florence Reynolds | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Catharine Furze | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Constance Burrow | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Mark Rutherford's Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [paper on Mark Rutherford] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Celia Burrow | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Alfred Rawlings | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Isles of Greece, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Francis Pollard | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Giaour, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [essay on Byron] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Howard R. Smith | Mark Twain | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Charles Evans | Andrew Lang | Story of Joan of Arc, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Charles Evans | Andrew Lang | Story of Joan of Arc, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Howard R. Smith | Mark Twain | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Katherine Evans | Thomas de Quincey | Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Members of XII Book Club | George Bernard Shaw | St Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Charles Evans | George Bernard Shaw | St Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Helen Rawlings | William de Morgan | Joseph Vance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Reginald Robson | William de Morgan | Alice for Short | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Howard R. Smith | William de Morgan | Somehow Good | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Francis Pollard | William de Morgan | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Members of XII Book Club | William de Morgan | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Francis Pollard | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | George Burrow | Walt Whitman | 'Memories of President Lincoln' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | R.B. Graham | Walt Whitman | 'O Captain! My Captain!' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | R.B. Graham | Walt Whitman | 'Manhattan Faces' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Reginald Robson | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Rosamund Wallis | Rosamund Wallis | [paper on Anglo-India and Forster] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | [paper on Forster's 'A Passage to India'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Francis Pollard | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | R.B. Graham | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Elizabeth Marriage | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Rosamund Wallis | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Rosamund Wallis | Some Thoughts on Racing | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Charles Stansfield | One Generation & the next or Jobson on False Freedom | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Reginald Robson | Intimations of Immortality | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Mrs R.B. Graham | Lady of the Marsh, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | R.B. Graham | If Christianity had Won | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | George Burrow | Revolt of the Innocents, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Charles Evans | Revenge or Justice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Henry Marriage Wallis | Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | [anon. member of XII Book Club] | Scandalous Affair, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Financial Statement was read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Edith Smith | [financial statement of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A reading in parts of Barrie's "Admirable Crichton" was then given with considerable spirit & was much appreciated. T... | Members of XII Book Club | James M. Barrie | Admirable Crichton, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Mary Robson | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | R.B. Graham | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Charles Evans | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Katherine Evans | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | George Burrow | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Howard R. Smith | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Mary Robson | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Mary Pollard | Hugh Walpole | Secret City, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Charles Stansfield | Hugh Walpole | Jeremy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Reginald Robson | Hugh Walpole | Cathedral, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Howard R. Smith | Hugh Walpole | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | Katherine Evans | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | R.B. Graham | William Blake | Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | R.B. Graham | William Blake | Birds and the Flowers, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | R.B. Graham | William Blake | To the Deists | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | Francis Pollard | | [catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | Celia Burrow | William Blake | [lyrics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Charles Stansfield | Elizabeth Gaskell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Celia Burrow | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cousin Phillis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Katherine Evans | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Helen Rawlings, Janet Rawlings, Muriel B. Smith & Howard R. Smith | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Alfred Rawlings | Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Howard R. Smith | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more pa... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | Bret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Catherine Spence | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel De... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | 'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'. | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical). |
| 1600-1699 | [from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn']
'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. Sh... | Aphra Behn | Mademoiselle de Scudery | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | [from chapter entitled 'Aphra Behn']
'One thing is certain, pure her mind was not, but tainted to the very core. Sh... | Aphra Behn | Madame de la Fayette | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquai... | anon | Aphra Behn | [?]Oroonoko | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquai... | anon | Aphra Behn | [?]Oroonoko | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay':
'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest dau... | Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther) | Alexander Pope | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay':
'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest dau... | Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther) | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In January, 1778, Mrs. Burney [Frances Burney's stepmother], who was glancing over the
newspaper at the breakfast t... | Elizabeth Burney | | announcement of publication of Evelina | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better
than Madame Riccob... | Hester Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better
than Madame Riccob... | Samuel Johnson | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better
than Madame Riccob... | Hester Thrale | Madame Riccoboni | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to
finish it. Sir Joshua R... | Edmund Burke | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to
finish it. Sir Joshua R... | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1782 "Cecilia" [...] made its appearance [...] Burke called it an extraordinary performance,
and the public were... | Edmund Burke | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is
exhausted and palled, ... | Edmund Burke | Ann Radcliffe | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is
exhausted and palled, ... | Charles James Fox | Ann Radcliffe | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is
exhausted and palled, ... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Ann Radcliffe | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[William] Godwin, no mean judge of a novel's excellence, could not help lamenting the fewness
of [Elizabeth Inchbal... | William Godwin | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on
terms of close intimacy... | Elizabeth Inchbald | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on
terms of close intimacy... | John Philip Kemble | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on
terms of close intimacy... | Elizabeth Inchbald and husband | | [Roman Catholic] Mass | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient
docility, and read h... | Jane Austen | Jane Austen | fiction writings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In [1802] [...] [Amelia Opie] published a volume of poems. It included those charming and
well-known lines, which, ... | James Mackintosh | Amelia Opie | verses opening 'Go, youth beloved...' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On literary life of Amelia Opie, 1804-25:
'It must have been something [...] to breakfast with Wordsworth and Sir W... | Walter Scott | Amelia Opie | Father and Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children | Maria Edgeworth | [?The] Purple Jar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children | Maria Edgeworth | Simple Susan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Simple Susan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | [?The] Purple Jar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly rec... | Thomas Carlyle | Walter Scott | Journal (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk was written by [J. G.] Lockhart, aided probably by one or more [...] clever young adv... | Charlotte Sophia Scott | J. G. Lockhart | Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Sophia Scott to Miss Millar (former governess), 5 July 1819:
'I would advise you to read a new book, whi... | Walter Scott | J. G. Lockhart | Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's... | Walter Scott | | The Arabian Nights' Entertainment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Quoted from Mrs Maxwell Scott:
'My cousin, Baroness von Appell (grand-daughter of Sir Walter [Scott]'s brother Thom... | Eliza Scott | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] From Samuel Richardson's account of his childhood, up to about age 13:
'As a... | Samuel Richardson | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1... | Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters | | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1... | Richardson children | | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1... | Richardson children | | Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] Quoted from 'a lady's' account of stays in Samuel Richardson's family home (c.1... | Mrs [Samuel] Richardson and daughters | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730:
'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments... | Aaron Hill | John Milton | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737:
'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which ... | Aaron Hill | | Leonidas | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738:
'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kin... | Aaron Hill | | 'folio' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The storm around might roar and rustle
We didna mind the storm a whistle'.
| Walter Scott | Robert Burns | Tam o' Shanter | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740:
'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriende... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741:
'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see no... | Aaron Hill | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741:
'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets o... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela (two sheets from part II) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:... | Earl of Tyrconnel and guests including Aaron Hill | | 'a new play' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:... | anon | | 'lines to the earl of Oxford' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745:
'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and... | Caroline [?Young] | Hervey | Meditations [?Among the Tombs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1749:
'When I was in town, I ask'd you if you had read Dr Hartley's book. ... | Edward Young | Hartley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748:
'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fieldi... | J[?ane] Collier | Sarah Fielding | The Governess | Print: Unknown, In proof |
| 1700-1799 | [Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749:
'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by wha... | J[?ane] Collier | | 'play' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754:
'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary ... | 'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----' | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755:
'I met with some lines the other day in a transla... | Margaret Collier | Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'My good old folks were desirous that I should ... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755:
'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for so... | Margaret Collier | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756:
'My good old folks --you can't think how I love... | Margaret Collier | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1748
[comments in detail, with page references, on passages in latest ... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volume 3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753:
'The delicious meal ... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 27 May 1750:
'I have just finished the sheets [of Clarissa] you favoured me wit... | Colley Cibber | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751:
'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; bu... | | Samuel Richardson | 'writings' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751:
'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; bu... | J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge | Graham | epigram | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 17 November 1751:
'I have been reading lately, with... | J. Duncombe | Lord Orrery | Letters on Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | J. Channing to Samuel Richardson, 31 October 1748:
'I returned your papers on Saturday, with sincere thanks, myself... | J. Channing | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| | Testing please ignore | | | | |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751:
'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good o... | Catherine Talbot | [N/A] | Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1751:
'I have a [...] curiosity to find out the author of a book ... | Mrs Underdown | | Directions for the Employment of Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751:
'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age... | Catherine Talbot | Fielding | [?The] Patriot | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751:
'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I ... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Ramble... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751:
'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson anot... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751:
'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on t... | Catherine Talbot | | The Idler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751:
'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which ... | Thomas Secker | Plutarch | Morals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de | | Print: Poster |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751:
'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly... | Catherine Talbot | Duc de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751:
'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only la... | Elizabeth Carter | Christopher Smart | On the Eternity of the Supreme Being | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751:
'Our present after-supper author is Mr Pope, in Mr Warburton'... | Catherine Talbot and family | Alexander Pope | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751:
'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know... | Catherine Talbot | Maximilien de Bethune de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 20 August 1751:
'You tell me nothing of Mrs Cockburn. I have read but little ... | Elizabeth Carter | Alison Cockburn | prose writing/s | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751:
'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard de Montfaucon | French Antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, d... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Catherine Talbot | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Martin Benson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (volumes 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751:
'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia... | Hester Mulso | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752:
'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses,... | Catherine Talbot | Hester Mulso | verses | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752:
'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do l... | Catherine Talbot and family. | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 23 June 1752:
'I am heartily sorry, my dear Miss Talbot, to find by to-day's ... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of death of Bishop of Durham | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Arlequin' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Princess Mesirida' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips | An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | William Chaigneau | The History of Jack Connor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]:
'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellan... | Catherine Talbot | Mary Jones | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752:
'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Le... | Catherine Talbot | Françoise d'Aubigné de Maintenon | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752:
'Pray can you tell me any history of a new paper called the... | Catherine Talbot and family | | The Adventurer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 January 1753:
'I like the Adventurers; we all like them exceedingly [...] ... | Catherine Talbot and family | | The Adventurer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local country... | Catherine Talbot and family | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sevigne | Letters (vol. 7) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local country... | Catherine Talbot and family | Sarah Fielding | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753:
'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ... | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753:
'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Vision' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753:
'Our days here pass too pleasantly to... | Catherine Talbot and family | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753:
'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754:
'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des ... | anon | Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly | Theorie des sentimens agréables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754:
'"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago,... | Catherine Talbot | Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly | Theorie des sentimens agreables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively pape... | Catherine Talbot | Richard Owen Cambridge | papers (i.e. essays) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you se... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754. |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi,... | Elizabeth Carter | Metastasio | 'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754:
'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of mora... | Catherine Talbot | David Fordyce | Elements of Moral Philosophy | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754:
'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my w... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask ... | Catherine Talbot | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [volume 1]. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754:
'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good w... | Catherine Talbot | | The World, No. CIV | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 January 1755:
'It is very long since I read Lord Shaftesbury, and I only r... | Elizabeth Carter | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 27 January 1755:
'I read Barbarossa in a great hurry, but remember in general... | Elizabeth Carter | | Barbarossa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755:
'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he ha... | Catherine Talbot | | 'volumes of Stoic philosophy' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755:
'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he ha... | Bishop of Norwich | | 'volumes of Stoic philosophy' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:
'I read that part of the Bishop of Norwich's quarto which relat... | Elizabeth Carter | | work on Stoic philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comme... | Henry Noel Brailsford | Jawaharlal Nehru | Towards Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'They could no more accept it than they or any other powerful nation had ever accepted the teaching of his Master and ... | Vera Brittain | Herbert George Wells | The Outline of History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear]
'Presumably these writers had neve... | Vera Brittain | Julien Benda | La Trahison des Clercs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Under the caption "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", it told me that on the previous day Dick Sheppar... | Vera Brittain | | Article entitled "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", in the Chicago Sunday Tribune (24 October 1937) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".' | Vera Brittain | Compton Mackenzie | Guy and Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years afterwards, I was to discover the "Declaration of the Independence of the Mind" issued to his fellow brain-work... | Vera Brittain | Romain Rolland | Declaration of the Independence of the Mind | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [letter published in the "Sunday "Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [Letter published in the "Sunday Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'To conclude some 15 sonnets were read & recited by members & much enjoyed' | members of XII Book Club | | [sonnets] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple D... | Katherine Evans | Walter Raymond | The Book of Simple Delights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re... | Howard R. Smith | Henry Marriage Wallis | "The Price of his Soul" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re... | George Burrow | Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold | "The Amber Witch" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | Charles Evans | William Henry Hudson | Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | Charles Evans | Charles Evans | [paper on Hudson's "Green Mansions"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on "Rates and taxes"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | George Burrow | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on geology] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gallsworthy's [sic] play "The Escape" was then read in parts by the Club except that the Prologue was omitted. The re... | Members of XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Escape, an Episodic Play in a Prologue and Two Parts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Celia Burrow | William Cowper | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | C. Elliott | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | [letter] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | [letter] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Katherine Evans | Robert Louis Stevenson | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Francis Pollard | George Bernard Shaw | [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Francis Pollard | James Matthew Barrie | [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | George Burrow | Charles Lamb | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Howard R. Smith | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | [letter to his son] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Charles Evans | Molly Elliott Seawell | The Ladies' Battle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The treasurers report showing a balance in hand of 19/- was read' | Edith Smith | Edith Smith | [treasurer's report of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Mary Pollard | Charles Reade | Christie Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | T.C. Elliott | Charles Reade | Cloister and the Hearth, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Charles Evans | Charles Reade | Hard Cash | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Francis Pollard | Charles Reade | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a... | Miss Highmore | Elizabeth Carter | 'To a Lady fond of Life' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a... | Mrs Donnelon | Elizabeth Carter | 'To a Lady Fond of Life' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a... | Sir George Lyttleton | Elizabeth Carter | 'To a Lady Fond of Life' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'There is a whole shoal of new books. The Centaur, well wo... | Catherine Talbot | | Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Henry Fielding | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Deane Swift | Essay on the Life, &c. of Dr Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 February 1756:]
'We have looked in Johnson [i.e. his Dictionary] for [ita... | Catherine Talbot and family | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:]
'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, ... | anon | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:]
'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral... | Catherine Talbot | Fulke Greville | Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 3 May 1756:]
'I had read an extract from that book which you say is writ by ... | Elizabeth Carter | Fulke Greville | Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical [extract] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:]
'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's... | Catherine Talbot | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:]
'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but you... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:]
'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:]
'I have looked in Dodsley, to s... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Dodsley | The Ladies' Memorandum Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758]:]
'"Henrietta" has been useful to us here, but there are many things i... | Catherine Talbot and family | Charlotte Lennox | Henrietta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:]
'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu'... | Elizabeth Carter | Françoise Langlois de Motteville | Memoirs for the History of Anne of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Pierre de Marivaux | Le Spectateur Francois | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during convalescence from illness, 1 January 1759:]
'I have run over a heap ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'ridiculous French books' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 November 1759:]
'I thank you for the Barrow, and in idle hours, for the Fr... | Catherine Talbot | | 'French plays' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1759:]
'The book you enquire after is "The History of some of th... | Catherine Talbot and family | anon | The Histories of some of the Penitents in the Magadalen House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Alfred Rawlings | Horace | The Art of Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Alfred Rawlings | Lang Jones | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Alfred Rawlings | Edward Verrall Lucas | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | T.C. Elliott | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 'Lepanto' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Katherine Evans | Colin D. B. Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Reginald Robson | J. C. Squires | [poem possibly entitled 'Birds'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Dorothy Brain | Alfred Noyes | The Torch Bearers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Charles Evans | Thomas Hardy | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | George Burrow | Burrow | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Francis Pollard | Siegfried Sassoon | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Mary Pollard | W. Watson | 'Lakeland' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Charles Stansfield | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany | Fame and the Poet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Windows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | Stanley Houghton | The Dear Departed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | Alan Alexander Milne | The Boy Comes Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Mrs C. Elliott reviewed "A Book of Discovery" by N. B. [sic] Synge' | C. Elliott | M. B Synge | A Book of Discovery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Rawlings read from Polo's description of the Great Khan.' | Helen Rawlings | Marco Polo | Travels of Marco Polo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Pattie Stansfield | Marion Cran | The Story of my Ruin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Dorothy Brain | Dorothy Brain | [essay on Hampton Court Gardens] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Rosamund Wallis | William Temple | [on gardens] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Mary Pollard | Michael Drayton | 'The Daffodil' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Pattie Stansfield | Charles Stansfield | [essay on gardening] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Celia Burrow | Walter de la Mare | 'Sunken Garden' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | George Burrow | | [reading about the Garden of Eden] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Charles E. Stansfield | John Galsworthy | [Introduction to the 'Forsyte Saga'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Katherine S. Evans | John Galsworthy | Indian Summer of a Forsyte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | R. B. Graham | John Galsworthy | In Chancery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Janet Rawlings | John Galsworthy | In Chancery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Rosamund Wallis | John Galsworthy | Awakening | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Francis Pollard | John Galsworthy | To Let | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Dorothy Brain | John Galsworthy | The White Monkey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2' | Edith Smith | Edith Smith | [financial statement of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | T. C. Elliott | Hugh I'Anson Faussett | Tolstoy; The inner drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | R. B. Graham | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | Mary Robson | Leo Tolstoy | Master and Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | George Burrow | Leo Tolstoy | The Cossacks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | Francis Pollard | Leo Tolstoy | [essay on the Russian Famine] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | R. B. Graham | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fa... | Charles Stansfield | Rudyard Kipling | 'Cold Iron' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fa... | Charles Evans | | 'True Thomas' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fa... | Dorothy Brain | | [a Swedish fairy tale] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Mary Robson | Voltaire [pseud.] | Zadig | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Katherine Evans | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters on England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Francis Pollard | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | C. Elliott | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Francis Pollard | Arnold Bennett | [article on Hardy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Reginald Robson | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | T. C. Elliott | Thomas Hardy | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Helen Rawlings | Thomas Hardy | Return of the Native, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Muriel Bowman Smith | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Dorothy Brain | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | George Burrow | Thomas Hardy | Dynasts, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | George Burrow | William Makepeace Thackeray | Essay on Jonathan Swift | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Howard R. Smith | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Dorothy Brain | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | T. C. Elliott | Jonathan Swift | Drapier's Letters, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Alfred Rawlings | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:]
'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are ... | Catherine Talbot | Epictetus | Ode | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | The Phoenician Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Orestes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Hecuba | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:]
'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to g... | Catherine Talbot | Roger Boyle | Parthenissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:]
'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le ... | Catherine Talbot | King Frederick of Prussia | Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:]
'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with... | Catherine Talbot | Daniel Defoe | The Family Instructor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'two pastorals' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather ... | Catherine Talbot | Katherine Phillips | Letters (as 'Orinda') | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo... | Catherine Talbot | Jonas Hanway | 'two volumes' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo... | Elizabeth Carter | Jonas Hanway | 'two volumes' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Phillips | Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Phillips | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | | advertisement for work by 'Mr Hanway' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:]
'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to M... | Catherine Talbot | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 September 1761:]
'I have seen an article in the newspaper which I am part... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of death of Mr Chapone | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! ... | Catherine Talbot | George Lord Lyttelton | The Vision | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the nobl... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | Letters to Rosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:]
'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agr... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:]
'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'the Death of Adam' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:]
'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read... | Catherine Talbot and family | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Turkish Embassy Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:]
'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all plac... | Catherine Talbot | Frances Brooke | The History of Lady Julia Mandeville | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:]
'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us h... | Catherine Talbot | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:]
'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ... | Catherine Talbot | | treatise 'sur la gaiete' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:]
'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ... | Catherine Talbot | John Jortin | Life of Erasmus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:
'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however... | Catherine Talbot and family | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:]
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'Treatise on Gaiety' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'refutation of Rousseau's Emile' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:]
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn... | Elizabeth Carter | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:]
'It is more from the testimony of others than from any rec... | Elizabeth Carter | Desiderius Erasmus | 'Dialogues' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for en... | Catherine Talbot | ?Elizabeth ?Carter | sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for en... | Mrs Secker | ?Elizabeth ?Carter | sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have been reading French books lately that represent u... | Catherine Talbot | | 'French books' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or k... | Catherine Talbot | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:]
'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only so... | Elizabeth Carter | Catherine Macaulay | 'History' [extracts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:]
'I brought with me Hurd's Dial... | Thomas Secker | Richard Hurd | Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel Considered as a Part of an English Gentleman’s Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:]
'I brought with me Hurd's Dial... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Kimber | Maria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of rank and fortune, and of some of her friends | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:]
'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord He... | Catherine Talbot | Horace Walpole | Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:]
'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Leighton | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:]
'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at pr... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Leighton | Works including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:]
'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We ... | Catherine Talbot and family | Thomas Leland | The History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King of Macedon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | ?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette | ?Peruvian Tales (vol 3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | Charles Morrell | The Tales of the Genii | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':]
'I shall fan... | Catherine Talbot and family | Jonathan Swift | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calcula... | Catherine Talbot | ?Jean ?de la Chapelle | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I... | Catherine Talbot | James Fordyce | Sermons to Young Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:]
'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish s... | Catherine Talbot | Pedro de Ribadeneira | ?Flos Sanctorum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:]
'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastl... | Catherine Talbot | | Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New York | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:]
'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole foli... | Elizabeth Carter | | Lloyd's Chronicle | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 July 1767:]
'We are deep (for our after supper book) in Lord Lyttleton [i.... | Catherine Talbot and family | George Lyttelton | History of the Life of Henry II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:]
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, th... | Catherine Talbot | Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri | Six assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that... | Catherine Talbot | Bodmer Johann Jakob | Noah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In twelve books. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha... | Catherine Talbot | Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède | Pharamond; or the History of France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha... | Catherine Talbot | Rene Aubert de Vertot | Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfat... | anon | | report of illness of Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:]
''We found them her... | Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall family | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | ?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ to the beginning of the present century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a lecture at Friends' House he spoke of a new Blitzkrieg timed to start on May 1st, and designed to overthrow Engl... | Vera Brittain | Oswald Garrison Villard | Inside Germany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Main page reviews in the "Observer", "Reynolds News" and the "Sunday Chronicle", and a warm tribute in the "Yorkshire... | Vera Brittain | | Reviews in the "Observer," "Reynold's News," "Sunday Chronicle," "Yorkshire Post" and "TLS." | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of "Il Seco... | Vera Brittain | | Il Secolo | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The True Dimension | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | Smoke | Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton') |
| 1850-1899 | 'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Nest of Gentlefolks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts... | Joseph Conrad | (Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts) | The Angel in the House | Print: probably an acting edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishab... | Joseph Conrad | William Rothenstein | A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and Craftsmen | |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:]
'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like ... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | Malincolia d'Alicino | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar... | Elizabeth Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of ... | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Fairfax | | Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey. |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | ?Royal and Noble Authors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:]
'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought t... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Gray | ?Ode for Music | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:]
'My sister and all her family are with me at present, amon... | anon | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 3 December 1769:]
''If the text of the sermon you mention is [italics]It is w... | Elizabeth Carter | | Sermon on text 'It is well...' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | ?Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Secker | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:]
'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, excep... | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Laetitia Aikin | Essays [?on Various Subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:]
'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, excep... | Elizabeth Carter | Jacob Bryant | A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one doe... | Joseph Conrad | Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett) | Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:]
'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete s... | Elizabeth Carter | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:]
'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so go... | Elizabeth Carter | | A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Travels | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:]
'Every body seems very impatient for important news from Ame... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of Independence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:]
'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They... | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Hymns | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:]
'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your cha... | Elizabeth Carter | Elizabeth Vesey | 'Ode' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:]
'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writing... | Elizabeth Vesey | ?Thomas Francois ?Raynal | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:]
'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just fini... | Elizabeth Carter | James Cook | A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:]
'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'ancient account of India' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:]
'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | ?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:]
'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Sp... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:]
'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: ... | Thomas Edwards | | Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:]
'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming... | Thomas Edwards | Hester Mulso | 'Odes' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 March 1752, following his account of recent storm damage to rooks' nests in h... | Thomas Edwards | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:]
'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and ... | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Pope | 'Essays' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:]
'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'. | Thomas Edwards | Hester Mulso | sonnet | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:]
'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give... | anon | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:]
'I have not been ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 March 1754:]
'Who is that Miss Nanny Williams who has published a pretty co... | Thomas Edwards | Anna Williams | verses addressed to Samuel Richardson | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:]
'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a ... | Thomas Edwards | John Duncombe | The Feminiad | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'I did say, and I really do think, that it is a pity so many f... | Thomas Edwards | | [Poetry by women] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'I return you many thanks for Miss Farrer's Ode on the Spring;... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Farrer | 'Ode on the Spring' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she d... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Highmore | sonnet | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:]
'The reading of Spenser's ... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with yo... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson | The Mainland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This ["Beyond"] is a gripping piece of writing. I got as far as p.47 before it dawned on me that these were marvellou... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'PS I've seen your most charming article on the French in the "Fortnightly [Review]". ' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | France, 1916-1917: An Impression | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Stevenson | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dmowski | Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe | Print: Book, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain |
| 1900-1945 | 'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a q... | Joseph Conrad | Edith Wharton | Summer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrust... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Turgenev: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.' | Vera Brittain | | Courier-Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence wit... | Vera Brittain | | Yorkshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.' | Vera Brittain | | New York Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven c... | Vera Brittain | | Yorkshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's... | Vera Brittain | | "Star Man's Diary" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "... | Vera Brittain | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".' | Vera Brittain | Thornton Wilder | Bridge of San Luis Rey, The | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."' | Vera Brittain | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America sug... | Vera Brittain | John Frederick Charles Fuller | article in the "Evening Standard" | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New Yor... | Vera Brittain | | "Time" Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jes... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-fame [With plates, including portraits] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]... | Joseph Conrad | Reginald Perceval Gibbon | article published in "Daily Chronicle" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was a study of you [André Gide] in the "Times". Have you sen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectfu... | Joseph Conrad | | article in "Times Literary Supplement" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk... | Vera Brittain | Nathaniel Gubbins | comment in the "Sunday Express" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an... | Joseph Conrad | Michael Monahan | New Adventures | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an... | Joseph Conrad | Ezra Pound | Pavannes and Divisions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.' | Joseph Conrad | Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"] | An Airman's Outings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 ... | Vera Brittain | Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor | Miniature History of the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very m... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Land: A Plea | |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Green Mirror | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the las... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Gosse | Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 August 1754:]
'I give you many thanks for that sweet little Ode of Miss Far... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Farrer | 'Ode to Cynthia' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As ... | Thomas Edwards | Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:
'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As fa... | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:]
'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last ... | Thomas Edwards | Henry Fielding | Voyage to Lisbon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:]
'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) aga... | Sarah Scudamore | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seem... | Anne Donnellan | | 'Psalms' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antago... | Anne Donnellan | Thomas Edwards | Canons of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Mrs] A. Dewes to Samuel Richardson, 24 September 1750:
'[My sister] and the Dean both have the highest regard for ... | '[Mrs A. Dewes's] sister and the Dean' | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Delany to Samuel Richardson, 16 August 1751:
'I am now reading Dr Young's Night Thoughts, and can hardly forbe... | Mary Delany | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752:
'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but h... | Anne Donnellan | Eliza Haywood | The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752:
'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading ... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753:
'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and ... | Patrick Delany | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757:
'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdale... | Frances Sheridan | unknown | History of the Magdalens (extracts) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [From ed. notes:]
'[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following mann... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volumes 1-4) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson (letter undated):]
'Just as I was sending this to... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (volume 5) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh (as 'Mrs Belfour') to Samuel Richardson, 11 January [1748/9], on completing reading of final... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa (final 3 volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749:]
'O Sir! how I regret your want of time! As I late... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | Seneca | Morals ('twentieth chapter') | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749, in discussion of her view that his characters Anna Ho... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | | The Spectator No. 476 | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, in undated letter:]
'I have lately very often put the question to m... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | | 'The wise son of Sirach' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, on reading 'confessions,' 16 December 1749:]
'I have read many of t... | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh | | "Confessions" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, "On Two Fronts" and "Letters of a Prisoner", described those early experiences.' | Vera Brittain | Corder Catchpool | On Two Fronts: Letters of a Prisoner. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, ... | Vera Brittain | Emanuel Miller | The Neuroses in War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the interval of waiting, my mind dwelt on the evidences of his mental development during recent months; the ma... | John Catlin | William Blake | Book of Urizen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the end of October, a paragraph by the "Daily Mail" Correspondent in Lisbon "revealed" the peril which she and her... | Vera Brittain | | [Report in the "Daily Mail"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, ... | Vera Brittain | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:]
'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in S... | anon | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which ca... | Vera Brittain | Arthur Harris | Bomber Offensive | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Maria Branwell to her fiance, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 5 December 1812:]
'Since I began this [letter] Jane put int... | Maria Branwell | George Lyttelton | Advice to a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoke... | Vera Brittain | | National-Zeitung | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 January 1816:]
'Read Lord of the Isles again.' | Elizabeth Firth | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 21 June 1817:]
'Read Old Mortality; did not like it.' | Elizabeth Firth | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:]
'Read Lalla Rookh.' | Elizabeth Firth | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By 1944 Lord Lang, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was supporting the persistent protests of the Bishop of Chich... | Vera Brittain | | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:]
'Read Young's Night Thoughts.' | Elizabeth Firth | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 May 1818:]
'Read Remains of H. K. White.' | Elizabeth Firth | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 2 January 1819:]
'Read the Heart of Midlothian.' | Elizabeth Firth | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:]
'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.' | Elizabeth Firth | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a copy of the Imitation of Christ extant, given to Charlotte [Bronte] in 1826, and there are other books tha... | Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne) | Walter Scott | Tales of a Grandfather | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That autumn a friend sent me a booklet entitled "The Bases of Civilisation", by Dr. G. S. Spinks, one-time editor of ... | Vera Brittain | G. S. Spinks | The Bases of Civilisation | Print: Booklet |
| 1800-1849 | 'A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which C... | Charlotte Bronte | Voltaire | Henriade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:]
'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certai... | Ellen Nussey | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:]
'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certai... | Charlotte Bronte | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From Ellen Nussey's account of her first visit to the home of her schoolfriend, Charlotte Bronte:]
'In summer [Eli... | Elizabeth Branwell | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a
contributor, [7] December 1835:... | Branwell Bronte | James Hogg | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a
contributor, [7] December 1835:... | Branwell Bronte | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Taylor to Elizabeth Gaskell, on the Bronte brother and sisters' religious reading and its relation to their depr... | Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne) | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:]
'Last Sunday I to... | Charlotte Bronte | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:]
'Last Sunday I to... | Charlotte Bronte | | 'life of a certain French nobleman' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:]
'My lif... | Charlotte Bronte | Thomas Sims | Brief Memorials of Jean Frédéric Oberlin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:]
'My lif... | Charlotte Bronte | Legh Richmond | Domestic Portraiture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:]
'My lif... | Charlotte Bronte | Thomas Price | Memoir of William Wilberforce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, in postscript to letter of 7 April 1840:]
'Mr [William] Weightman [curate at Haw... | Charlotte Bronte | | reports of lectures by William Weightman and Patrick Bronte | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):]
'I am sorry I did not ex... | Charlotte Bronte | | The Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):
'I am sorry I did not exis... | Elizabeth Branwell | | The Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 20 August 1840:]
'I have got another bale of French books from Gomersal -- conta... | Charlotte Bronte | | 'French books' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These included excerpts from the "News Chronicle" and "Manchester Guardian", which reported that a so-called "article... | Vera Brittain | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of Charlotte Bronte's sojourn at Upperwood House, Rawdon, there is only one slight record apart from her letters. It ... | Charlotte Bronte | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on M... | Vera Brittain | Dorothy Thompson | [article in the "Sunday Chronicle"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From Emily Bronte's 'diary paper' of 30 July 1841:
'It is Friday evening, near 9 o'clock -- wild rainy weather. I a... | Elizabeth Branwell | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'About the same time a correspondent sent me a copy of "Human Events", issued weekly from Washington by Dr. Felix Morl... | Vera Brittain | | Human Events | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1943, soon after Britain adopted "obliteration" as a policy, an article in the "Times" reported that "the German h... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the Bronte Museum, there is a manuscript French phrase book, written and used by the Rev. Patrick Bronte during th... | Patrick Bronte | | Turenne's New French Manual for 1840 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From the United States Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, inspired by the same thought, sent me an article called "Last Ple... | Vera Brittain | Oswald Garrison Villard | Last Plea for Europe | Print: article published in a periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the second week of the battle, a Letter reader sent me from that day's Evening News a clipping which contained... | Vera Brittain | | Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:]
'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have l... | James Montgomery | Branwell Bronte | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:
'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lat... | anon | Branwell Bronte | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Coming up to London on the morning of September 8th, I read with the same happiness as my neighbours a "Daily Express... | Vera Brittain | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On May 5th the U.S. Forces' newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes", quoted a description by British war prisoners of this... | Vera Brittain | | The Stars and Stripes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter in the "Jewish Chronicle" subsequently assailed Victor for publishing and commending "Above All Nations".' | Vera Brittain | | Jewish Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means". | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | What Buchenwald Really Means | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ... | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | article in the "Left News" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ... | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | Article in the "Left News" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".' | Vera Brittain | S. L. Solon | Article in the "News Chronicle" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.' | Vera Brittain | Anne Matheson | Article in the "Evening Standard" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even George Orwell, who had dismissed "Seed of Chaos" with contempt the previous year, now expressed deep misgivings ... | Vera Brittain | George Orwell | Article in "The Observer" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'He told me later that the "New York Post" announced the conclusion of the war in Europe under the headline: "Now We M... | George Catlin | | New York Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review"... | Vera Brittain | Howard Spring | Article in "St Martin's Review" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".' | Vera Brittain | Somerset Maugham | A Christmas Holiday | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and ... | Vera Brittain | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".' | Vera Brittain | John Steinbeck | The Moon is Down | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger (in source eds' translation from French), 24 July 1844:]
'I greatly fear that... | Charlotte Bronte | | French book/s | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Margaret Wooler, on the Bronte sisters' investment plans, 23 April
1845:]
'There is nothing ... | Emily Bronte | | articles on railways and railway stock | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:]
'One day in the autumn of 1845 I... | Charlotte Bronte | Emily Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:]
'One day in the autumn of 1845 I... | Charlotte Bronte | Anne Bronte | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 31 March 1846:]
'I received the number of the Record you sent and despatched it ... | Charlotte Bronte | Jean Henri Merle D'Aubigne | "Letter" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to the Editor of the Dublin University Magazine, 6 October 1845:]
'I thank you i... | The Bronte sisters | | review of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [W. M. Thackeray to W. S. Williams, 23 October 1847:]
'I wish you had not sent me Jane Eyre. It interested me so mu... | William Makepeace Thackeray | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:]
'I have receive... | Charlotte Bronte | | Review of Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:]
'I have receive... | Charlotte Bronte | | Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:]
'The "Weekly Chronicle" seems... | Charlotte Bronte | | Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:]
'I have just received the "Ta... | Charlotte Bronte | | Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:]
'I have just received the "Ta... | Charlotte Bronte | | Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:]
'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a cop... | George Henry Lewes | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 13
November 1847:]
'This mor... | Charlotte Bronte | | review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 17 November 1847:]
'The perusal of the "Era"... | Charlotte Bronte | | review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 17 November 1847:]
'The perusal of the "Era"... | Charlotte Bronte | | review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to G. H. Lewes, 22 November 1847:]
'I have now read "Ranthorpe." I could not g... | Charlotte Bronte | George Henry Lewes | Ranthorpe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 1 December 1847:]
'The "Examin... | Charlotte Bronte | | Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:]
'There are moments when I... | Sir John Herschel | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:]
'There are moments when I... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:
'I hardly ever felt delight... | Charlotte Bronte | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 December 1847:
'You will have thought me strangely t... | Charlotte Bronte | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 25 December 1847:
'Permit me to t... | Charlotte Bronte | Leigh Hunt | A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'most striking & thrilling... twice to my mother & sisters' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Astolphe de Custine | ?Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'very good, rather political in character' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermon on Spiritual Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'very good, with his peculiar views' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermon on the Imitableness of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'good, with the Unitarian views' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermons on Love to Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | George Stillman Hillard | The Relation of the Poet to His Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Farnham | Travels in the Great Western Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is wri... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Astolphe de Custine | La Russia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the founder of the Ministry at large, excellent. I must have talk with Ly Byron about this subject, & the similar ins... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Sermon on Dr Tuckerman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | | [Articles on the French Revolution and Robespierre, journal unknown] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'fine imagery, but is too speculative' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Henry Melvill | Sermon on the Ascension | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Arnold | Sermon on the text 'except ye eat the flesh of the son of man' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'very interesting & able. I have read the entire contents of his published works, and every page has impressed upon me... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | William Ellery Channing | Lecture on the Present Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Arnold | Sermon on the Three Comings of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read loud… I like better & better, it is so clever & so practical' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Arnold | Sermon on Ceasar's Household | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'full of good & useful matter' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | James Kay-Shuttleworth | Proof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training School | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of the... | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | George Selwyn | Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'excellent, some antidote is salutary amidst such frivolities' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Leighton | Sermon on Divine Grace and Obedience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...].... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Truth's Welcome Home | Print: proof |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...].... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | A Week in Paris | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1850-1899 | 'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.' | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Gosse | Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is ... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it... | Thomas Carlyle | Basil Montagu | Thoughts on Laughter By a Chancery Barrister | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.' | Thomas Carlyle | Roger Ascham | ?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir William Hamilton | Review of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (Paris, 1828) in Edinburgh Review, XCIV (OCt 1829), 194-221 | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[... | Joseph Conrad | Theodore James Gordon Gardiner | The Reconnaissance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].' | Joseph Conrad | Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' | Joseph Conrad | John William Fortescue | History of the British Army: Extracts from British Campaigns in Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous li... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Colour Studies in Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that i... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Sc... | Thomas Carlyle | Schiller & Goethe | Correspondence | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I ... | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | 'Animal Magnetism' | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen | Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Boo... | Thomas Carlyle | Patrick Fraser Tytler | History of Scotland | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, ... | Thomas Carlyle | | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Brontë to the grandson of Henry James Mercier, 1 June 1848:]
'I have read 2,500 with ple... | Charlotte Brontë | Henry James Mercier | Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Brontë, as Currer Bell, to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 15 June 1848:]
'I duly received Mirabeau ... | Charlotte Brontë | John Stores Smith | Mirabeau: A Life History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burne... | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Gilbert Burnet | History of His Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Samuel Knight | Life of Dr John Colet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed... | Joseph Conrad | Algernon Swinburne | A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.' | Joseph Conrad | | Gold Coast Blue Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at on... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Papa's War and Other Satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"]... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Major Tomlinson | Old Junk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Charlotte Bronte to Sydney Dobell, 3 February 1854:]
'"Balder" arrived safely. I looked at him, bef... | Charlotte Bronte | Sydney Dobell | Balder | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 14 May 1854:]
'I took the time of the Leeds-Keighley-Skipton trai... | Charlotte Bronte | | Railway timetable for February [?1854] | Print: Timetable |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. Th... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.' | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; a... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | The Sepoy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read yo... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Some Personal Recollections | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'The justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Another Sheaf | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | Sidney Biddell and 'Sonie' [also Biddell?] | | The Life of George Eliot (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]
'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G... | George Eliot | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to
Charlotte Bronte's wi... | Anon | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very s... | Joseph Conrad | Wilfred Scawen Blunt | My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1888-1914 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is ... | Joseph Conrad | George Bradshaw (ed) | Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is ... | Joseph Conrad | | The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Sandeman | [untitled] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.' | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Gambetta | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.' | Joseph Conrad | Thomas James Wise | A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Part 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.
| Joseph Conrad | Gerald Cumberland (pseud.) | Tales of a Cruel Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'.
Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comm... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Brought Forward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service in the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie". | Joseph Conrad | Paul Adam | Lettres de Malaisie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yeste... | Joseph Conrad | Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon | Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respe... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Wanderings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but yo... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | A Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the h... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | In Chancery | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the h... | Jessie Conrad | John Galsworthy | Tatterdemalion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [... | Joseph Conrad | Joseph Hergesheimer | Wild Oranges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of th... | Joseph Conrad | Rodney Mundy | Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine fe... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon | Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.' | Joseph Conrad | Prosper Mérimée | Tamango | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read i... | Joseph Conrad | Gérard Jean-Aubry | Mérimée | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.'
[Hence follow six lines of praise.] | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Captives: A novel in Four Parts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks indeed for your good letter and for the little book ["La Symphonie Pastorale"] whose precious pages I wil... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | La Symphonie Pastorale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed gr... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Cortes Holliday | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the ... | Joseph Conrad | William Rothenstein | Twenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation by Various Hands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the Carthagena book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.' | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.' | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton... | William Ewart Gladstone | Henry Fynes Clinton | Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & ... | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Thomas William Lancaster | The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 18,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. | William Ewart Gladstone | Baden Powell | The elements of curves: designed for the use of students of the | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in af... | William Ewart Gladstone | Baden Powell | An elementary treatise on the geometry of curves and curved surfaces : | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity. | William Ewart Gladstone | Edward Burton | Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [...] Finished Burton [...] | William Ewart Gladstone | Edward Burton | Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of "To Let" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | To Let | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudo [R.H.Sauter] shows much charm in "Awakening", which harmonised with the charm of the text in a fascinating way.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Awakening | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for sending me the text [of John Galsworthy's play "The Family Man"] which I have looked over wit... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Family Man | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however dd not prev... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Ksiega Hioba (The Book of Job) | Print: playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must begin by thanking you for the little book of satirical pieces ["Groteski"] which I read with great enjoyment a... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Groteski | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A few days ago in fact I re-read "Les Caves du Vatican", with the same intetest but with an admiration that grows on ... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Les Caves du Vatican | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have b... | Joseph Conrad | Frederick O'Brien | White Shadows in the South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have b... | Joseph Conrad | Frederick O'Brien | Mystic Isles of the South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T... | Joseph Conrad | Stefan Zeromski | Dzieje grzechu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T... | Joseph Conrad | Stefan Zeromski | Popioly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the charming copy of "The Brassbounder". It is as fresh and attarctive as ever to read and I am still... | Joseph Conrad | David Bone | The Brassbounder | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your last letter was very nice.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Isabella Stevenson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demande... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Ernest Henley | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I want to thank you at once for the book you have been good enough to send me.It is of course of the greatest interes... | Joseph Conrad | Harold Waldo | Stash of the Marsh County | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The readng of "Memories and Notes" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of... | Joseph Conrad | Sidney Colvin | Memories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-1912 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | Analysis of Mind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing exper... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching perfo... | Joseph Conrad | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Gift of Paul Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Al... | Joseph Conrad | Alfred Comyn Lyall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks my dearest fellow for he Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell y... | Joseph Conrad | Anton Chekhov | The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plai... | Joseph Conrad | Alexandr Fredro | Trzy po Trzy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.' | Joseph Conrad | Jean Fayard | Oxford et Margaret | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.' | Joseph Conrad | Basil Lubbock | The Colonial Clippers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As yo... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | Abdication | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Garnett | Friday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciation, First Series | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greate... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Aubry | La Musique et les nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a fe... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Addington Symonds | Animi Figura | Manuscript: Proof copy |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly s... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | The Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I w... | Joseph Conrad | Cecil Roberts | A Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four Acts | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I hav... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Slepa latarka (Dark Lantern) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For the last two days I have been reading "The [Forsythye] Saga" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh "The ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Forsythe Saga | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet af... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Garnett | The Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledge... | Joseph Conrad | Bertrand Russell | The Problem of China | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the boo... | Joseph Conrad | Clarence Andrews | Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever see... | Joseph Conrad | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; ... | Joseph Conrad | John Drinkwater | Preludes, 1921-1922 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loved... | Joseph Conrad | Fryniwyid Tennyson Jesse | The White Riband; Or a Young Female's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.' | Joseph Conrad | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
... | Joseph Conrad | Marcel Proust | Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as b... | Joseph Conrad | Zofia Kossak-Szczucka | Pozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Reminiscences of Volhynia 1917-18 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is ... | Joseph Conrad | Jules Laforgue | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I wa... | Joseph Conrad | Julian Street | Mysterious Japan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the g... | Joseph Conrad | Jan Tadeusz Zuk-Skarszewski | Rumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid's Steed: A Caricature of Yesterday) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.' | Joseph Conrad | W. A. H. Mull | A True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the Ship "Dalgonar" of Liverpool | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admir... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Aubry | Sainte Beuve (exact title unknown) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?' | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This fo... | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Roztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solution) | Print: Book, or playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked "Engineer" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?' | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | R.H., Inzynier | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitud... | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle | Scandals of the Dole | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.' | Joseph Conrad | Liam O'Flaherty | The Cow's Death | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.' | Joseph Conrad | David John Nicoll | "Commonweal": The Greenwich Mystery | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. ... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Captures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — ... | Joseph Conrad | Hubert Wellington | William Rothenstein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, m... | Joseph Conrad | | [Rule Book of the National Club] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.' | Joseph Conrad | Bruno Winawer | Jeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka (More about Einstein: A Bird's-eye View of the Theory of Relativity | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner ... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Morley | Inward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the w... | Joseph Conrad | William Henry Hudson | 153 Letters from W. H. Hudson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very goo... | Joseph Conrad | | The Criterion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively g... | Joseph Conrad | Thomas Beer | Stephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an introduction by Joseph Conrad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on th... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Ward | The Triumph of the Nut and Other Parodies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he ... | Joseph Conrad | John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin] | Kimono | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any spec... | Joseph Conrad | Enoch Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read with the greatest pleasue what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made... | Joseph Conrad | Allan Monkhouse | A Bookman's Notes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and mad... | Joseph Conrad | Anthony Trollope | Phineas Finn: The Irish Member | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' ... | Joseph Conrad | Allan Monkhouse | | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for "La Maison natale", which you have so kindly sent me. I have just finished reading it and am greatly ... | Joseph Conrad | Jacques Copeau | La Maison natale | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | Modern Polish Literature: a course of lectures delivered in the School of Slavonic studies, King's College, University of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | Periods of Polish Literary History: Being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dyboski | ?The Religious Element in Polish National Life | |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had letter from Sir Hugh Clifford. He sends me six copies of his address to the Legislative Council.[...] The repor... | Joseph Conrad | Hugh Clifford | Address to the Legislative Council of Nigeria | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable respo... | Joseph Conrad | | Robotnik (The Worker) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.' | Joseph Conrad | Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt'] | I Say | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be ... | Joseph Conrad | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it "tout à fait chic" you will understand... | Joseph Conrad | Ford Madox Ford | Some Do Not | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you tak... | Joseph Conrad | Horatio Nelson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But ... | Joseph Conrad | André Gide | Incidences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] Wh... | Joseph Conrad | Louis-Marie-Emile Roché | Temps perdu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read wi... | Joseph Conrad | Francis McCullagh | The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel compunctions not having written before about "The Forest" — a piece of work to which I came with the gre... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | The Forest | Print: playscript |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true &md... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Lancelot Sanderson | An Episode of Southern Seas | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".' | Joseph Conrad | Henry Norman | The Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.' | Joseph Conrad | John Millar | Books: A Guide to Good Reading | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting u... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Strife | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Fa... | Joseph Conrad | Ivan Turgenev | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.' | Joseph Conrad | James Johnston Abraham | A Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I ha... | Joseph Conrad | Violet Hunt | The House of Many Mirrors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall ... | Joseph Conrad | Edmund Candler | The General Plan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm ... | Joseph Conrad | David Morton | ?Old Ships | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It ... | Joseph Conrad | Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer) | Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Grand-daughter | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the par... | Joseph Conrad | François-Marie Arouet Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle] | Vie de Napoléon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Gaspard Gourgaud | Journal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Marcellin Pellet | Napoléon à l'île d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Paul Gruyer | Napoléon, roi de l' île d'Elbe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Rapp | Mémoires écrits par lui-même | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Léon Lanzac de Laborie | Paris sous Napoléon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But... | Joseph Conrad | George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt] | The Ascending Effort | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl a... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Lear | Nonsense Songs and Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's... | Joseph Conrad | Alfred Russel Wallace | The Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to... | Joseph Conrad | | Boy's Own Annual | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude an... | Joseph Conrad | | La Vie Parisienne | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude an... | Joseph Conrad | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very f... | Joseph Conrad | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He would say he bought books to read, not to stare at their backs on a shelf while they collected dust over the years... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | William Wymark Jacobs | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber Clark | Out of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd Corner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Guy De Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' Most mornings he spent reading the papers until about half past ten, then answered any letters that had come [...].' | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing th... | Joseph Conrad | José Raul Capablanca | My Chess Career or Chess Fundamentals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it dow... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by ... | Joseph Conrad | | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, th... | Joseph Conrad | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '3rd mo. 15th. In looking over the events of today, I believe I suffered loss from reading the light and frivolous con... | Edward Foster Brady | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, ... | Charles Dickens | | The Terrific Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare ... | | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on t... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | John Locke | | Manuscript: Manuscript notebook. |
| 1900-1945 | 'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. H... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | Gilbert Frankau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again...... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twel... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | Luigi Pirandello | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Frank was reading [italics] The Times [end italics] and the first account of the battle that we had seen, the others ... | Patrick James Campbell | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myse... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, ... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing.
It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, a... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Orders for the day. |
| 1900-1945 | [Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive]
'Their home was very like o... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slo... | Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan | Alexander Smith | "Barbara" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I said rather dazedly aloud - to Beston - I wonder what time the next train to London goes - & a stranger with a time... | Violet Asquith | Robert Greene | Pandosto | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the ... | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Backfile of his own articles published in the "Daily Herald." | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, II' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' | Thomas Carlyle | John A. Carlyle | 'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St John Long' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928
C. J. Evans in the Chair
1 Minutes of last approved
| Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 March 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Elizabethan Drama other than Shakespear was then taken. Geo Burrow read a very short intro... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [A very short introduction to Elizabethan drama other than Shakespeare] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | T. C. Elliott | anon | Arden of Faversham | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | Sylvanus Reynolds | anon | Arden of Faversham | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | George Burrow | anon | Arden of Faversham | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under
Thos. C Elliot... | Live dramatic reading featuring T. C. Elliott, R. H. Robson, and A. Rawling of XII Book Club | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under
Thos. C Elliot... | Reginald H. Robson | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers not on duty all stayed i... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | Charles I. Evans | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | George Burrow | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my sp... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Gene Stratton-Porter | Michael O'Halloran: A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | Reginald H. Robson | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Gilbert Frankau | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the B... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that th... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | James Shirley | 'Death the Leveller' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and c... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | [telegrams, letters, and reports] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.' | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my p... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned t... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Herbert George Wells | Ann Veronica | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Sto... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Edward Verrall Lucas | Mr. Ingleside | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Henry Jones | ?Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sis... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | ['some novels'] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".' | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting Men | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part... | Francis Pollard | William Shakespeare | The Two Noble Kinsmen | |
| 1900-1945 | F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ... | T. C. Elliott | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The Two Noble Kinsmen | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ... | Katharine S. Evans | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The Two Noble Kinsmen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ... | E. Dorothy Brain | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The Two Noble Kinsmen | |
| 1900-1945 | The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me... | Charles E. Stansfield | Nicholas Udall | Ralph Roister Doister | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me... | Thomas C. Elliott | Nicholas Udall | Ralph Roister Doister | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me... | Edith B. Smith | Nicholas Udall | Ralph Roister Doister | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings
| Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | War Time Tree Fellings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 November 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | Beauty | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Dec... | Martin Wentworth Littlewood | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that ha... | Martin Wentworth Littlewood | | The Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that ha... | Martin Wentworth Littlewood | | [A work on vegetal medicine] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | The Abolition of the House of Commons | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 1928] | Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Martha L. (Pattie) Stansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | E. Dorothy Brain | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Thomas C. Elliott | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Charles E. Stansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Alfred Rawlings | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Mary Pollard | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Rosamund Wallis | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Helen Rawlings | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Mary E. Robson | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting held 4 Dec 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Alfred Rawlings | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Janet Rawlings | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | H. B. Lawson | H. B. Lawson | [An account of Plato's life and work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Charles E. Stansfield | Plato | ‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Book 7 of The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | Plato’s Philosophy: Ideas the true reality | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Thomas C. Elliot | Plato | Phaedo [The account of Socrates' death] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 Jan 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [A brief sketch of Victor Hugo's life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter 24 March 1814]
'''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ev... | Fanny Allen | Frances D'Arblay | The Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Thomas C. Elliott | [An estimate of Vitor Hugo's verse and his position in French literature] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | Booz endormi, from La légende des siècles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Thomas C. Elliott | Victor Hugo | L’Expiation (section on Waterloo) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | E. Dorothy Brain | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Reginald H. Robson | Victor Hugo | Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | H. B. Lawson | Victor Hugo | Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved ... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 26 Feb 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved ... | Un-named members of the XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Hall-Marked | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved ... | Un-named members of the XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | The Little Man | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved ... | Un-named members of the XII Book Club | John Galsworthy | Punch and Go | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 Mar 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | H. B. Lawson | H. B. Lawson | [Humour] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Charles E. Stansfield | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | George Burrow | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Mary E. Robson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice (Mr Collins proposes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | George Burrow | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Lamb | [a letter] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Mary Reynolds | Lewis Carroll | The Lobster Quadrille, from Alice in Wonderland | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Francis Pollard | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Hilaire Belloc | Cautionary Tales for Children | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and ... | Siegfried Sassoon | Robert Graves | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 3 May 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | [A survey of modern American literature] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | George Burrow | | [Un-named modern American works in verse] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Rosamund Wallis | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Thomas C. Elliott | George Santayana | [An essay on war] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Charles E. Stansfield | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Renascence and Other Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Reginald H. Robson | Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 6 June 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Muriel Bowman-Smith | [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [essay on a family holiday] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | George Burrow | George Burrow | The Jamboree and Thoughts thereon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Charles E. Stansfield | Charles E. Stansfield | [essay on a Swiss holiday] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 25 Sep 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Francis Pollard | Gilbert Murray | [Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alcestis] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Euripides | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30
R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subje... | | Howard Smith | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 Dec 1929 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the whole of Swiss Family Robinson, and was not deterred by the bloodstain which had obliterated half the prin... | Richard Church | Johann Wyss | The Swiss Family Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The new faculty had to be fed, however, and my eye fastened on all printed matter. I read passages in the Daily Chron... | Richard Church | | The Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of E... | Emma Darwin | Thomas Carlyle | Chartism | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Reginald H. Robson | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Howard Smith | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Thomas C. Elliott | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Edith B. Smith | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | George Burrow | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Celia Burrow | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | E. Dorothy Brain | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | J. Rawlings | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Rosamund Wallis | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Ethel C. Stevens | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Mary E. Robson | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Mary Pollard | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Francis Pollard | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 June 1930 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [an account of the life of John Masefield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Celia Burrow | John Masefield | Beauty | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Celia Burrow | John Masefield | Posted Missing | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Sard Harker | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Violet Clough | John Masefield | Midsummer Night | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Edgar Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mignon Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mary Pollard | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Howard Smith | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing fo... | Emma Darwin | Pierre Lanfrey | History of Napoleon I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'The character of the people that Ossian describes, their manners, their habits, but above all, their superstitions, a... | Robert Story | Ossian | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Story | The Poetical Works Of Robert Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about t... | Emma Darwin | Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve | Causeries du lundi (Monday Chats) | Print: Book, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'I make C. Buxton's book quite my Bible at present. He hits so many small nails on the head that suit my fee... | Emma Darwin | Charles Buxton | Notes of Thought | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a ... | Charles Lamb | Robert Southey | [extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Monthly Review"] | Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical. |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religi... | Charles Lamb | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Religious Musings | Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31
George Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5. George Burr... | Victor Alexander | | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 April 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield: 15. V. 31
George Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5. George Burro... | Members of the XII Book Club | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 31 May 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | George Burrow | [an introduction to the topic of the Sitwells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | | Who's Who | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Alfred Rawlings | Edith Sitwell | Sleeping Beauty | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Celia Burrow | Edith Sitwell | Perrine | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | Southern Baroque Art | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Mary Pollard | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Alfred Rawlings | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Charles E. Stansfield | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | George Burrow | Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved.... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 2 June 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair
1. Minutes of last appr... | John L. Hawkins | John L. Hawkins | [A paper on the natural history of the neighbourhood of Reading] | Manuscript: NotebookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair
'Meeting held at School H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 16. X. 31. Ethel C. Stevens in the chair.
1 Minutes of last were read[...]. | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 September 1931 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so re... | Emma Darwin | William Ewart Gladstone | England's Mission | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [Letter]
'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so re... | Emma Darwin | William Rathbone Greg | Is popular judgement in politics more just than that of the higher classes? | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Soulie | La Lionne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Soulie | La Comtesse de Monrion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by L... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederic Soulie | Le Fils de la Folle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 22 March 1932] | Manuscript: Booklet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Francis E. Pollard | Francis E. Pollard | [on the spirit of cricket] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Victor Alexander | John Nyren | ?The Cricketers of my Time | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Howard Smith | Francis Thompson | ?"At Lords" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Reginald H. Robson | Hugh de Selincourt | The Cricket Match | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 April 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [an outline of the career of Molière and a sketch of the life of the XVIIth Century in France] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Charles E. Stansfield | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Francis E. Pollard | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | George Burrow | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Rosamund Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Mary Pollard | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Edgar Castle | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Victor Alexander | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Mary E. Robson | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 31 May 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary Pollard | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [a paper on the life of Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary E. Robson | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Mary E. Robson | Mary. E Robson | [a description of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Janet Rawlings | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | George Burrow | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gefunden | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Charles E. Stansfield | Charles E. Stansfield | [a paper on Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue, 20.ix.'32.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 22 June 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 September 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Francis E. Pollard | Francis E. Pollard | [an account of the life of Walter Scott] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Alfred Rawlings | Alfred Rawlings | [on Walter Scott as a poet] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [on the later work of Walter Scott] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Charles E. Stansfield | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Francis E. Pollard | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Rosamund Wallis | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes ... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 October 1932] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | XII Book Club Book Selection Committee | [List of twelve books proposed for purchase by the book club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30, Northcourt Avenue: 15.XI.32
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | XII Book Club Book Selection Committee | [Subsidiary list of books to be considered for purchase by the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, L. P. : 17. ii. 33
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair
1. Minutes of la... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 January 1933] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 17 February 1933] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Mignon Castle | Alfred Rawlings | [a thoughtful essay] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Janet Rawlings | Helen Rawlings | [reminiscences] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Charles E. Stansfield | Henry M. Wallis | [Of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Reginald H. Robson | Howard Smith | [A paper on English justice] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | George Burrow | Reginald H. Robson | [The life and writings of John Galsworthy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Alfred Rawlings | Edgar Castle | The English - are they modest? | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Janet Rawlings | [Moroccan memories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Mary Pollard | Charles E. Stansfield | [Safety First] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 March 1933 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Charles E. Stansfield | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Dorothy Brain | Dorothy Brain | [on old Berkshire Ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Dorothy Brain | Anon | [old Berkshire ballad on a lad who died from eating custard] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Dorothy Brain | Anon | The lay of the hunted pig | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Charles E. Stansfield | Charles E. Stansfield | [an introduction to 'Sumer Is Icumen In'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | John J. Cooper | Some Worthies of Reading | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Francis E. Pollard | Francis E. Pollard | [a short account of the life and work of Mary Russell Mitford] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Mary Pollard | Mary Russell Mitford | 'The Gypsy', from Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | George Burrow | Matthew Arnold | The Scholar Gipsy | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | George Burrow | Matthew Arnold | Thyrsis | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Edgar Castle | H. V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 16 Feb 1934] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Howard Smith | Newcomers to Reading | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Janet Rawlings | Uniforms | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Henry Marriage Wallis | My dear Twelve | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Dorothy Brain | Charles E. Stansfield | Canaries | Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Reginald H. Robson | Dorothy Brain | Hors d’Oeuvres | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Howard Smith | Edith Goadby | Glastonbury | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.' | Emma Darwin | Wilhelm Scherer | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Mary E. Robson | Walter Russell Brain | Spoonbill | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | XII Book Club | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 March 1934] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [An account of the life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Mary Pollard | Percy Corder | The Life of Robert Spence Watson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Ethel C. Stevens | Ethel C. Stevens | [an account of Kelmscott Manor] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [On the artistic and socialist aspects of William Morris’s work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Victor Alexander | [Acting secretary of the XII Book Club] | Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 April 1934 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with... | Edmund Blunden | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking ... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scra... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 May 1935] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Victor Alexander | Marjorie C. Cole | [letter expressing interest in the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [A paper on the early history of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Victor Alexander | Daniel Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Reginald H. Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Edith Goadby | Edith Goadby | [An evocation of Old London] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Ethel C. Stevens | Ethel Stevens | [On Chelsea, Carlyle, Tennyson, J. S. Mill, et. al.] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Charles E. Stansfield | William Wordsworth | Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'More enduring [than the chocolates sent by Eden's mother, which were eaten by rats] was a copy of Robert Bridge's ... | Anthony Eden | Robert Bridges | The Spirit of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | | [A Russian Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | | [Russian novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | | [review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Min... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 18 June 1935] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Min... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | The Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways of the Chiltern Hills | Manuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text. |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Min... | Victor Alexander | Celia Burrow | [A letter offering to hold a meeting of the XII Book Club at her new house] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of ... | Rosamund Wallis | Ann Bridge | Illyrian Spring | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of la... | Francis E. Pollard | H. A. L. Fisher | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the whole my experience of being read to by my parents was not a success. Alice in Wonderland was spoiled b... | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | Charles Lutwidge Dodson | Alice Adventures in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Wednesdays the bells of St. Michael's Church on the neighbouring hill pealed for a service or, as some said, "choi... | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | Frederick W. Farrar | Eric, or, Little by Little | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were ... | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | | Search the Scriptures | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Religion was a sore trial ... Dean Farrar contributed to my suspicion of God, and my suspicion of God — "I haven't ... | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | Frederick W. Farrar | Eric, or, Little by Little | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Le Havre, though undamaged by war, was stark and gloomy to march through ... "We are quite near Agincourt", I wrote d... | Wilfred Ruprecht Bion | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &... | Frances Stevenson | Herbert George Wells | The Wife of Sir Eric Harman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &... | Frances Stevenson | Herbert George Wells | Anne Veronica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &... | David Lloyd George | Herbert George Wells | The Wife of Sir Eric Harman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I think it was Victor Hugo's book Les Miserables that decided me to do what I could to alleviate the distress and su... | David Lloyd George | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C. [David Lloyd George] says that Ibsen's Doll's House was the work that converted him to woman suffrage, & presented... | David Lloyd George | Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw... | David Lloyd George | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw... | Frances Stevenson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Victor Alexander | Francis E. Pollard | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 April 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [A paper on Jane Austen’s life and literary style] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Victor Alexander | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Mary Pollard | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Celia Burrow | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Jane Austen | Love and Friendship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Lucy Harrison | A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of la... | Charles E. Stansfield | Charles E. Stansfield | [a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley with an estimate of his views and character] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Mary Pollard | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Hymn to Intellectual Beauty | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Reginald H. Robson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Victor Alexander | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonaïs | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Alfred Rawlings | William Watson | [unidentified poetry] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 April 1937 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 5 May 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [a paper on witchcraft] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Janet Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothy Brain | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothea Taylor | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Francis E. Pollard | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Victor Alexander | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Mary E. Robson | | First Book of Samuel, chapter 28 [The Witch of Endor] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Dorothy Brain | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Howard Smith | | Trials for Witchcraft | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Rosamund Wallis | Mary Webb | Precious Bane | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 July 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of ... | Victor Alexander | Edgar Castle | [Letter to the Secretary of the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of ... | Members of the XII Book Club | J. M. Barrie | What Every Woman Knows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37.
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of ... | Charles E. Stansfield | J. M. Barrie | My Lady Nicotine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns u... | Henry William Williamson | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review" he will be surprised at ... | Henry William Williamson | | National Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postc... | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciat... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters l... | Henry William Williamson | | [March magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps —... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycling | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycling | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those not relating to the future of the club) 14 September 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club (those relating to the future of the club) 14 September 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Edgar and Mignon Castle | [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Dorothy Brain | [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [A brief account of the career of William Fryer Harvey] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [A review of We were Seven, by William Fryer Harvey] | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Helen Rawlings | William Fryer Harvey | Laughter and Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | William Fryer Harvey | Caprimulgus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Francis E. Pollard | William Fryer Harvey | August Heat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Janet Rawlings | William Fryer Harvey | Patience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Charles E. Stansfield | William Fryer Harvey | Laughter and Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Helen Rawlings | William Fryer Harvey | Laughter and Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Howard Smith | William Fryer Harvey | The Tortoise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Edgar and Mignon Castle | [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Victor Alexander | Dorothy Brain | [Letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 October 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Rosamund Wallis | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Celia Burrow | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Francis E. Pollard | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Ethel C. Stevens | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Un-named members of the XI Book Club | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 27 Nov 1937] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Edgar Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Edgar Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Mignon Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Dorothy Brain | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
4. The Book list committee then submitted a list of ... | Members of the XII Book Club | [A committee of the XII Book Club] | [List of books suggested for purchase by the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Reginald H. Robson | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Mary Pollard | Ivan Bunin | The Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Dorothea Taylor | Eugene O'Neill | The Village All God’s Chillun Got Wings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Howard Smith | Roger Martin du Gard | Les Thibault | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Galsworthy | The White Monkey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 14 Dec 1937 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Charles E. Stansfield | Charles E. Stansfield | [A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or George William Russell)] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Mary Pollard | George William Russell | Gandhi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Francis E. Pollard | Æ [pseud.] | The one dimensional mind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Francis E. Pollard | Æ [pseud.] | [One or more unidentified poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Victor Alexander | Æ [pseud.] | [One or more unidentified poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Rosamund Wallis | J. M. Synge | The Tinker’s Wedding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 20 Jan 1938 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Reginald H. Robson | Saki [pseud.] | Beasts and Super-Beasts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Reginald H. Robson | Saki [pseud.] | Beasts and Super-Beasts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Mary S. Stansfield | A. W. Lawrence | Lawrence by his Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Howard L. Sikes | Julian Huxley | Africa View | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Halliday Sutherland | A Time to Keep | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Halliday Sutherland | A Time to Keep | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Margaret L. LLoyd | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Roger Moore | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Roger Moore | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading”
... | Roger Moore | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | John A. Spender | The Comments of Bagshot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | John A. Spender | The Comments of Bagshot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Victor Alexander | Victor Alexander | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 15 Feb 1938 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Charles E. Stansfield | George A. Birmingham | Spanish Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Charles E. Stansfield | George A. Birmingham | Spanish Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Howard Smith | | [a story about an illicit still] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Mary E. Robson | George Bernard Shaw | Preface to John Bull’s Other Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Rosamund Wallis | unknown | [a specimen of Irish literature] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Victor Alexander | Ross and Somerville | An Irish R.M. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Elsie Sikes | unknown | [Irish Bulls] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.' | Siegfried Sassoon | | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.' | Siegfried Sassoon | Thomas Hardy | The Return of the Native | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me a... | Siegfried Sassoon | Robert Curzon | Visits to Monasteries in the Lavant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Frederic Harrison | Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my p... | Alfred Russel Wallace | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | The Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addressed to the "Times" | |
| 1900-1945 | 'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my p... | Alfred Russel Wallace | | Light | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case ag... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Ralph Milbanke | Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well.... | Emma Darwin | Margaret Oliphant | Squire Arden? | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that int... | Emma Darwin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about t... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by pos... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of period... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, ... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | [Army Communique] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kip... | Douglas Herbert Bell | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty... | Douglas Herbert Bell | George William Russell | "Shadows and Lights" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field a... | Douglas Herbert Bell | | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It does my heart good — I, who have been so deeply distressed by the tone of the newspapers since my return fro... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to h... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Henry Jones | Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to h... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A new officer has been censoring our letters the last two days. I fancy the C.O. gave orders that they were to be muc... | | | [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The censoring here has become such an unpleasant occasion as almost to take away the joy of receiving letters —... | | | [letters addressed to conscientious objectors in camp] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | | The Fellowship Hymn-Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Richard Weymouth | The Naval, Military and Village Hymn Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Walther Rauschenbusch | Christianity and the Social Crisis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Harry Emerson Fosdick | The Meaning of Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Harry Emerson Fosdick | The Manhood of the Master | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Student Christian Movement | A Book of Prayers for Students | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Emil Otto | ?An Elementary German Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Charles Hugo | ?German Grammar Simplified | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,... | Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother had a school-board pupil-teacher to read aloud to her during part of the winter; she wrote: ''I embarked wi... | Emma Darwin | Charlotte Mary Yonge | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questi... | Emma Darwin | Charles Waldstein | The Work of John Ruskin: Its influence on Modern Thought and Life. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Sha... | Albert John Martin | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle bec... | Albert John Martin | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics... | Albert John Martin | Siegfried Sassoon | Counter-Attack and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried... | William Collis Spackman | | La Vie Parisienne | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried... | William Collis Spackman | | "salty French novels" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [itali... | William Collis Spackman | Robert Browning | "The Wanderers" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabba... | John Frederick William Dunn | Erskine Childers | The Riddle of the Sands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".' | John Frederick William Dunn | William Magnay | The Amazing Duke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Jack London | The Call of the Wild | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read. Received kit. Read "The Edge o' Beyond". Inoculated.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Gertrude Page | The Edge o' Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Douglas Sladen | The Japs at Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Oxenham | Barbe of Grand Bayon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Robert W. Service | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Ethel Dell | The Way of an Eagle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Henry Seton Merriman | Barlasch of the Guard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Adventure of the North".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Gilbert Parker | An Adventure of the North | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read. Wounds dressed ... Visit from Miss Davies and a friend (Miss Stevenson). She brought 8 books & chocs. Talked fo... | John Frederick William Dunn | Anthony Hope Hawkins | The Chronicles of Count Antonio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Much as he had liked [his previous employers], George Michael [Clarkson] liked the builder-brothers just as well. The... | George Michael Clarkson | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When asked how he passed the time in the [ship's jail] cell, [Edward] Pullen replied, "Just read the Bible, that's al... | Edward Pullen | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such c... | Emma Darwin | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.' | Emma Darwin | George Otto Trevelyan | The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slan... | Emma Darwin | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very incon... | Emma Darwin | A. J. Balfour | The Foundations of Belief | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impresse... | Emma Darwin | Voltaire | The Age of Lewis XIV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the B... | John Edward Needham | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read... | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read... | John Frederick William Dunn | Anthony Hope Hawkins | Tales of Two People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Mrs Humphry Ward | The Coryston Family | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsle... | John Frederick William Dunn | Ian Hay | The Right Stuff | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.' | John Owen Maddox | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Ernest Maltravers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consistin... | Douglas Lyall Grant | | [POW camp publication] | Print: Serial / periodical |