| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' | Margaret Oliphant | Alphonse Daudet | [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 | '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 | '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... | 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 | '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 | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa | 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... | William Henry Davies | William Henry Davies | 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems | Unknown |
| 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Early Rising' 'Just at the early peep of dawn...' [transcribes text] 'Clare'. | Mary Dugdale | John Clare | Early Rising | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Heaven was Cloudless' [transcript of poem, no author given] | Mary Groom | Bernard Barton | The Heaven was Cloudless | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Benjamin Disraeli | | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Made an end of 'Gil Blas'. | Gertrude Savile | Alain Rene Le Sage | The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Immanuel Kant | Vermischte Schriften | 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 | 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 | Dante Alighieri | [Divina Commedia] | 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 | Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus | Ueber die Grunde der menschlichen Erkentniss und der nat?rlichen Religion | 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 | Francois Rabelais | The Works of Francis Rabelais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire | A Treatise on Toleration | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Daniel Waterland | A Vindication of Christ's Divinity | 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 | Friedrich Carl Von Savigny | Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joannes Scapula | Joan. Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-Latinum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christoph Martin Wieland | Comische Erzahlungen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christoph Martin Wieland | Wielands Neueste Gedichte | 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 | Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) | Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alaric Alexander Watts | Poetical Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Taylor | An Essay on Money | 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 | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Hans Christian Andersen | Tales | 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 | 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | "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 | "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 |
| 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] 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 |
| 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 | "[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 |
| 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 | 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 | ' ... 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 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 | 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 | 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
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 '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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury (ed.) | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 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 | '"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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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, 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 | 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 | 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, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Hal... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Catherine Clarkson | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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 | 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 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 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 (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 | '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 | '[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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | ' ... 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 | 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 | 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): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
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), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Chardin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 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 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 | 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 | 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 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Duenna | 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 |
| 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 | [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 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | '[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 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second | 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 |
| 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 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | 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 | '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 | 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 | Pierre Antoine Daru | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Hans Christian Anderson | The Little Match Girl | Print: Book |
| 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 | [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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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 |
| 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). |
| 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). |
| 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 |
| 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), 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 | Christoph Martin Wieland | unknown | 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 |
| | 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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... 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 | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | [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 | 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 + 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '[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 | "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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Honore de Balzac | [novels] | 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 |
| | 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 |
| 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... | Alfred Baker Strettell | John Keats | 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 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | novels | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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:] '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 | 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 | [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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| | '"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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 | " From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally. | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 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 |
| | 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 | '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 | 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 |
| 1800-1849
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. 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | "'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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | ' "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 | [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' | Arnold Bennett | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | " 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 | "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 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 | 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 | '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 | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | John Keats | | 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 |
| 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 | '[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 | '[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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | John Galsworthy | | 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 | George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) | | 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 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | John Rodrigo Dos Passos | [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 | '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 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | 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 | '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 | Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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
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 | '["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 | '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 |
| 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 | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | 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 | "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 |
| 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 | "[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 |
| 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 | Ernst Haeckel | | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor] | Ellen Weeton | Anne Louise Stael-Holstein | Corinna, or Italy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
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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 | 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
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 | "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Hermione Ballantyre | | 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 | 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 | ?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 |
| 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 | [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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Kenneth Grahame | [probably The Wind in the Willows etc] | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Henry James | [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 |
| 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
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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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
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 | Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | | 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 | '[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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | Elizabeth Anna Hart | The Runaway | 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | [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 | [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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | "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
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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 |
| 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"... | Sarah Scott | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 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] 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 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 Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s... | Henry James | Henry James | Eugene Pickering | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
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 |
| 1700-1799
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
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 |
| 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 always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.' | Harriet Martineau | John Gay | Gay's Fables | 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 | '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 | '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 | George Bernard Shaw | [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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Kenneth Grahame | Dream Days | 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 | '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 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 | '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 | Henry Williamson | unknown | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | ?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 |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | [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 | '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 | Sylvia Townsend Warner | | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Letters of People in Love". Quite good.' | Hilary Spalding | Donagh McDonagh | Letters of People in Love | 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 |
| 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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Fanny Lewald | Wandlungen | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 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 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 | '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 | 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Nathaniel Wraxall | Historical Memoirs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 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 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 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 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '... 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 |
| 1700-1799
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 | ?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 | ?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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Fran?ois Le Vaillant | [narratives of travels] | Print: Book |
| 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 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 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 | '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 | Lady Sidney Morgan | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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
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, 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799
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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.' | [Miss] Burdett | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | 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 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.' | [Mrs] Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 | '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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | John Galsworthy | On Forsyte Change | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 | '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.] | Franco Sachetti | Novelle | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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.] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | unknown | 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 | 'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters' | George Eliot | Francesco Petrarch | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic' | George Eliot [pseud] | Michelangelo Buonarotti the Younger | La Tancia | 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 | '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 | 'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Benedetto Varchi | [History of Florence] | 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] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Istorie fiorentine | 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 | Coventry Patmore | | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 | [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 | '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 | '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 | 'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola' | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 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 | '... 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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.] | Frederick Denison Maurice | Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry | 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.] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | 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 | '[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 | 'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Mandeville (pseud.) | Travels | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.' | Perct Bysshe Shelley | Diogenes Laertius | 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 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Francois Rabelais | [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 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | John Keats | [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 | 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 | George Norman Douglas | South Wind | 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 |
| 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 | Sidney Lanier | unknown | 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 | '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 | '[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 Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexander Bain | [on nervous mechanism] | Print: Book |
| 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 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 |
| 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 | 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: '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, 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 |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Purgatorio'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | 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] '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 |
| 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 | 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, 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, 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown Darwin | [article on 'Diseased Volition'] | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Anatole France (pseud.) | [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 | John Henry, Cardinal Newman | [theological works] | 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 | 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 | 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 | '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 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 | '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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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
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 | '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 | '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 |
| 1500-1599
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 | '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
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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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, 18 January 1838: 'Read much of "Emma" this evening'. | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Emma | 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 |
| 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
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | [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 '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] '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 |
| 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 | Peter Simon Pallas | Miscellanea Zoologia | 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 | '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 |
| 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've read John Buchan's books before. That's the reason.' | | John Buchan | [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]' ?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]' ? 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] '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | Thomas Jonathan Jackson | [Military History] | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | [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 | Ernst Platner | Ernst Platners Philosophische Aphorismen nebst ein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus | Das Leben Jesu | 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 | Alexander Charles Louis D'Arblay | The Vanity of All Earthly Greatness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Galt | Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Mariana Starke | Travels on the continent | 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 | Francis Bond Head | Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an old man | Print: Book |
| 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 | Karl Christian Wolfart | Jahrbucher Fur den Lebens-Magnetismus oder Neues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Wrangham | The Life of Dr. Richard Bentley | 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 | Rene Descartes | Opera Philosophica | 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 | 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 | Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens | Kabbalistische Briefe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Anster | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Christoph Adelung | Deutsche Sprachlehre fur Schulen | 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 | Johann Conrad Barchusen | Elementa Chemiae | 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 | Hendrik Brenkmann | Historia Pandectarum | 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 | Francis Beaumont | Fifty Comedies and Tragedies | 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 | Immanuel Kant | Sammlung einiger bisher unbekannt gebliebener klei | 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 | 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 | Immanuel Kant | Anthropologie | 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 | Johann Heinrich Hoffbauer | Der Mensch in allen Zonen der Erde | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | Immanuel Kant | Vermischte Schriften | 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 | John Hacket | A Century of Sermons | 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 | 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 | Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann | De emendenda ratione graecae grammaticae pars prim | 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 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 | Benjamin Pitts Capper | A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Macdiarmid | Lives of British Statesmen, & c | 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 Galt | The Provost OR Memoirs of His Own Times | 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 | John James Park | The Dogmas of the Constitution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John James Park | Conservative Reform | 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 | 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 | Johann Jahn | The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 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 | 'The Bridesmaid' 'The bridal is o'er the guests are all gone/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Haynes Bayly | The Bridesmaid | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | 'The Bride Maid The bridal is over, the guests are all gone... Jany 18 1829' | Bowly group | Thomas Haynes Bayly | The Bridesmaid | Unknown |
| 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | '"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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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 | '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 | '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
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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | [unknown works] | 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 | 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 | John Buchan | [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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 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 | Edmond About | Les mariages de Paris | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Emanuel Tesauro | Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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. ... | | John Galsworthy | Forsyte Saga | 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 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | 'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.' | [Mrs] Cole | Lindley Murray | Power of Religion | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 March,
Discussion Group ? annual meeting.
Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).' | Gerald Moore | Alphonse Daudet | Tartarin sur les Alpes | 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Monday, 15th October 1928
?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.
| Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Vie de Tolstoy | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '21st March 1929.
?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' | Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Le Petit Pierre | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' | Arnold Bennett | Alexandre Dumas | unknown | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | 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 | 'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discourses on Livy | 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 | '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 | '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 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | 'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...' | Thomas Green | Johann David Michaelis | Introduction to the New Testament | 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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 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 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
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 | Edmund [??] Barrow | [??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 Bryan Edwards all evening' | Mary Godwin | Bryan Edwards | he history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies | Print: Book |
| 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 | [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 | '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 |
| 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 | .'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | 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 |
| 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 | '[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 | '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 | '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 | '[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 | [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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Ann Radcliffe | Mysteries of Udolpho, The | |
| 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 |
| 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 | Eugene Labaume | Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie | 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 | 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 | Jean Antoine de Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | 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 | [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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 | 'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes moraux | 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 | '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 | '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 | Jean Antoine Du Cerceau | Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 | 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 | '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 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 - 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | '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 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 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 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 | '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 |
| 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] .. 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 | '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 | 'work in the evening - & read Les Incas' | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 | 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 | [Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux] | Satires [and other works] | 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 | '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 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 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 |
| 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 | 'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Salmasis and Hermaphroditus | 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 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 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 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 | '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 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading...Calvin.'
| Robert Louis Stevenson | John Calvin | unknown | Unknown |
| 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 | '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 | 'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus' | Mary Shelley | John Davis | Travels in America | 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 | '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 Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [probably] Inferno | 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 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson (trans.) | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe' | Mary Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Aristipp und einige Zeitgenossen | 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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus' | Mary 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... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Christoph Martin Wieland | Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus | 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 | '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 | Francis Beaumont | Laws of Candy, The | Print: Book |
| 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.'
| Claire Clairmont | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | memoirs | 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 | '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 | '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 | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Histoire de l'art chez les anciens | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'Wednesday May 19th. [...] Read 11th. & 12th. Cantos of Purgatorio [...] '. | Claire Clairmont | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio (Cantos 11 and 12) | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
| Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Noble Gentleman | 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 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 17th. [...] Read Vanburgh Plays.' | Claire Clairmont | John Vanburgh | plays | 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 | '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 | Alexandre L. B. Robineau | Jerome Pointu: Comedie | 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 | '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 | '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 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 | '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 | '[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion.
[...]
'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...]... | Claire Clairmont | John Keats | Endymion | 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 | '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 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. 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 | '[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 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | 'Read Gil Blas' | Mary Shelley | Alain-Rene Lesage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Gil Blas - read Livy' | Mary Shelley | Alain-Rene Lesage | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | 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 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | 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 | '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 |
| 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 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 | 'Read the vision of Quivedo' | Mary Shelley | Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y Villegas | Suenos y discursos de verdades | 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 | '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 | '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 | Dante Alighieri | [unknown] | 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 | '[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. [...] 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 | '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 | '[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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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, 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 | '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 - 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 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | '[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 Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [unknown] | 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 | [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 | [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 | [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 | [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 | 'Begin Julie' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | 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 | '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 & 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 | '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 | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 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 | 'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Niccolo Fortiguerra | Ricciardetto | 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 | '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 | '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, 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 | 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 |
| 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, 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 | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | 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, 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | '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 | 'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Fortiguerra | Ricciardetto | 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 | 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 | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | 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 | '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 | 'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Francesco Petrarch | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Boccaccio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 | 'Greek - Sintram - S. not well' | Mary Shelley | Friedrich Heinrich Karl | Sintram und seine Gefahrten | 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 | 'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | 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. 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 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 | '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, 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | 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 | '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 George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840:
'["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Glencoe | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 'Finish the Vita Nuova.' | Mary Shelley | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | 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 | '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 | 'read greek - read Mackenzies works' | Mary Shelley | Henry Mackenzie | [Works] | 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks' | Mary Shelley | John G. Dalyell | Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea | 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 | 'Read Emile' | Mary Shelley | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile, ou l'Education | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 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, 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, 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 | 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 | Henry Alford | Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Henry Fawcett | Manual of Political Economy | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | 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, 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, 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 |
| 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 | 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, 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 Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843:
'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | autobiography | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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, 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 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 | 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 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 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 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 | 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 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 | 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 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 | 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 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, 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene | 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 | '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 | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discourses on Livy | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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". |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 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 have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Hallam | Constitutional History of England [?] | 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 |
| 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 | '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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1500-1599 | ?Reed by me N. Hughes 1595 ? noember?
| N. Hughes | John Davis | The World's Hydrographical Description | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '[?] 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". |
| 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 | 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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... | 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... | Duncan Grant | Duncan Grant | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Queen Victoria | Letters | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '"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 | '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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | '[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... | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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' | |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | Harrison Cady | Jungle Jinks | 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 | '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 | 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 | 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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | John Galt | 'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof the Pringle Family. No IV' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | '"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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [Sermons] | 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 | '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 |
| 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, 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 | 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Lytton Strachey | Eminent Victorians | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 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 | '['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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 "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 | '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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.' | Virginia Woolf | Austen Henry Layard | Nineveh | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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, 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, 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 | 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 | '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 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | '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 | 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, 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 | 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 | 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 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 | '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 | 'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.' | George Crabbe | Edmund Malone | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | '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 | 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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, 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 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, 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, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | 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 | '[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 | '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 | '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 | '[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 | '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 | '[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.' | Cecil King | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | 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 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | Wystan Hugh Auden | [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 |
| 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 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Hay Athole Macdonald | election speech | Unknown |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 'In my sisters' letters, reading between the lines, I found a self-justifying resentment, the accusation - mystifying ... | Ralph Glasser | Lilian Glasser | [letters] | 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 | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | 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... | Thomas De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables | 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 |
| 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 | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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... | | 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 |
| 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 | [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 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 | Marie-Jeanne Roland | Memoirs of Madame Roland | 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 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 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 | '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 | '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... | Samuel Romilly | Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 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 |
| 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 | Alexandre Dumas | Nouveaux Entre'actes | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '[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... | 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 | '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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 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 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 quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | Together | 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 | '[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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | [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 | 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 |
| 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) | John Bunyan | | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Alphonse Daudet | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica". | Robert Louis Stevenson | Pierre-Jean Beranger | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 and Emily Tennyson | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | Charles-Jean-François Henault | [history] | 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 | Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland | [unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys] | 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 | Charles Jean François Henault | Abrege chronologique de l'histoire de France | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '[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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | John Keats | Letters | 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 | Ernest Renan | Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse | 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 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 […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jean Juvenal des Ursins | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '[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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 |
| | '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 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 | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | French Peasant Songs. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '[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 |
| 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... | Mrs Causley | Florence L. Barclay | Following of the Star, 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 |
| 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 | '[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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Andrew Lang | The Library | 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | 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 | 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 |
| | '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 |
| | '[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 |
| | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Edna Lyall | Autobiography of a Slander | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 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 | Anna Swanwick | Poets, The Interpreters of the Age | 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 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'In the evening read "Gil Blas"' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 ... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | 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... | | Nathan Bailey | Dictionarium Britannicum | 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 | '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 | '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... | Mr Morrison | Allan Cunningham | 'Mermaid of Galloway, The' | 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | Étienne Pivert de Senancour | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '[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 | '[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 |
| 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 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 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 | Frank Sayers | Ode to Aurora | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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
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 | 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 |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home Mr Hoby rede to me a sarmon of Vdale' | Thomas Hoby | John Udall | [Sermons] | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Katherine Mansfield | The Samuel Josephs | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 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, 1 September 1795, '"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick". said Solomon. S... | Robert Southey | Publius Papinius Statius | Thebaid | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 (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):
'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 | 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 | Jean Baptiste Say | | 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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: 'But Miss Christall. have you seen her Poems? — a fine, artless sens... | Robert Southey | Ann Batten Cristall | Poetical Sketches | 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 | Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux | [plays] | 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 | 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 | Anatole France | [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 | 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: '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 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 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, 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, 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: 'Mrs Barbauld has written some lines to Coleridge ... | Robert Southey | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ‘To S. T. Coleridge, 1797’ | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 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: 'In Chaucer I for ever find the ribible — but not... | Robert Southey | Gines Perez de Hita | Guerras Civiles de Granada | 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 | Jean Masson | Histoire Memorable de la Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, Appelée la Pucelle d’Orleans | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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. 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):
'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, 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 | 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 | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 "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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of Latin Christianity | 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 | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 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 |
| 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 | 'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias" | John Ruskin | Alexandre ` Dumas | La Dame aux Camélias | 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 |
| 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 | '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... | Blanche Ridges | Edwin Arnold | Light of Asia | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.' | John Ruskin | Cardinal Wiseman | [unknown] | 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 | 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 | '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'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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | 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 | '[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 | '[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 | 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 | '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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 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 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 | '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 | [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 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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | '[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 |
| 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 | '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 ... | 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 | 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 ‘"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: '“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: 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 “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 '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 “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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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: '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 | Harrison Ainsworth | | 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 | '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... | 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 | 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | 'A series of readings from Maeterlinck were given by various members' | Members of XII Book Club | Maurice, Count Maeterlinck | | 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 | '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 | '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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 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 |
| 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 | William Harrison Ainsworth | Boscobel | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | [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] | |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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. |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | ''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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | ' 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 | '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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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... | 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 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 | '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 | 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 | Henry Marriage Wallis | Five minutes Thoughts upon present Condition | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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
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 | 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 | 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, 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, 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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... | Francis Pollard | George Bernard Shaw | [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell] | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 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 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 |
| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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, 9 January 1782:]
'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writing... | Elizabeth Vesey | ?Thomas Francois ?Raynal | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.' | Joseph Conrad | John Galsworthy | Another Sheaf | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | 'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.' | Joseph Conrad | Jean Fayard | Oxford et Margaret | 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | '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 | 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 | '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 | '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 |
| 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 | '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 | 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 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 | Mary E. Robson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice (Mr Collins proposes) | 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... | 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... | Charles E. Stansfield | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Renascence and Other Poems | Unknown |
| 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... | 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 | [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 |
| 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 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 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 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [on the later work of Walter Scott] | 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... | Howard Smith | Janet Rawlings | [Moroccan memories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 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 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. 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 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 | '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 | '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 | Edgar and Mignon Castle | [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... | 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
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Galsworthy | The White Monkey | 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 | 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 | '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 ... "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. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | '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 |